On Monday 26 September 2005 20.11, Kirk Bocek wrote: > I'm starting a project to build a MythTV box for my living room. Anyone > else currently working with MythTV on CentOS 4? > > Here are some of the gotcha's I've worked through so far: > > - I was originally planning on using KnoppMyth. But their CD appears to be > only for i386. Without realizing it, the P4 CPU I picked is one of the > newer ones with the x86_64 extensions. It won't boot i386. Intel CPUs with EM64T _will_ work fine with i386 dists. Lots of people pick a i386 dist (even when there is a similar x86_64 dist available) for software and hardware compatibility reasons. /Peter > Thus, my plan B > is going with CentOS4 x86_64 and installing from the ATrpms collection. > Here's someone who's already doing this: > > http://umich2.com/archives/category/linux/mythtv/ > > - I picked up a cheap Radeon 7000 with TV out. Wrong! Various posts seem to > say that the TV Out functionality is not supported by the X.org radeon > driver. It *does* work with the vesa driver though. I just don't know if > video and DVD playback will work with the vesa driver. Does anyone know? > > - The stock RedHat kernel does *not* have irda support enabled. I > downloaded 2.6.13.2, enabled irda, and my motherboard's irda port is found > and configured. We'll see if I can get it to work with the IR adapter in > the nMediaPC case I bought. > > Kirk Bocek -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellström | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050928/282af8ae/attachment-0005.sig>