Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-02 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Fedora Core 3 is plenty fast. Changing a distribution entirely does not a faster machine make. Disable all services you don't need, switch to a very lightweight window manager, etc., and the performance difference between FC3 and any other distro is typically marginal at best. That hasn't been my

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-02 Thread Niklas Brunlid
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:52:53 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:54, Thom Paine wrote: do you absolutely have to remove them? taking them out of the menus is probably safer Well, I guess I didn't know if the mythtv-suite contained the whole thing, or if it was

[mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Thom Paine
I've installed my system with Jarod's guide on FC3 and the rpm's from Axel's site. Is there a way to remove the phone and gallery and game portions of myth after an install with the rpm's? I edited the .xml files so that the phone portion is removed from the menu screen, but I'd rather remove

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread M . Barnabas Luntzel
rpm -e packagename but you may run into dependency issues and whatnot...I am hesitant to even mention this since the damage that can be done if you start getting into forcing rpm removals can be major. do you absolutely have to remove them? taking them out of the menus is probably safer On

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Thom Paine
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:52:54 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rpm -e packagename but you may run into dependency issues and whatnot...I am hesitant to even mention this since the damage that can be done if you start getting into forcing rpm removals can be major. do you

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Ross Campbell
I was just hoping to speed up my machine a bit, but maybe I should change from Fedora Core 3 to something lighter. If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your OS, the top few suggestions I would make are: 1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50 2) If you

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Thom Paine
If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your OS, the top few suggestions I would make are: 1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50 I have a 350 and a 250. 350 is doing the TVOut. 2) If you don't have a decent graphics card, spend $70 and get a GeForce

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Benson
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:06:53 -0500, Thom Paine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Disable GNOME/KDE and use a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox, fvwm, etc. I'd like to explore this option. I'm currently using gnome, but had heard that fluxbox was faster for something like this. I'll look into

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Andy Long
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:06:53 -0500, Thom Paine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your OS, the top few suggestions I would make are: 1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50 I have a 350 and a 250. 350 is doing the TVOut.

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:54, Thom Paine wrote: do you absolutely have to remove them? taking them out of the menus is probably safer Well, I guess I didn't know if the mythtv-suite contained the whole thing, or if it was split up among the different sections. mythtv-suite is a virtual