RE: MythTV on SuSE 9.2
Andrew, I use this site as a starting point. I have done quite well with SuSE 9.2 up to the point of getting my nVidia MX 440 SE card to switch to svideo and provide the proper resolution. Things work well in a window on my 19" Sony computer monitor - but what I really want is to drive my 31" Toshiba TV from the s-video out of the nVidia card. I think the problem is I'm using the wrong driver - but am busy and will not get back to it for a day or two. I have not had to compile any packages so far - just use apt and the SuSE rpms (be sure and use the DVD, not just the CDs which lack some necessary packages. Plus I had to trace down a few dependency problems - e.g. try to get one from the apt sources, it needs a rpm that is only on the SuSE 9.2 DVD; get that then get the apt RPMs, then it needs one more SuSE DVD rpm - but after a few iterations I got everything. Also apt will upgrade KDE which was a bit trick, but a post showed me how to resolve that. Sorry I do not have time to be more specific now. Post both to the Myth and Suseto the list, I believe you will get other help as well. I will have more to report in a few days - Richard -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Bassett [mailto:abassett@bassettcorp.com] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:21 PM To: rnmixon@FromLtoJ.com Subject: MythTV on SuSE 9.2 Hello, I got your e-mail off of the MythTV mailing list from a few days ago. I recently put together a MythTV box, and stumbled across Jarod Wilson's install guide, but I am unhappy with the current state of Fedora. I'm more accustomed to SuSE, and noticed that you are running it as well. Ive read before that SuSE has problems with MythTV because of differeing qt-devel packages. Have you had any problems? Is there a site like Jarod Wilson's for SuSE? or an apt repository like Axel Thimm's? It would be a pain to have to compile everything from source, but I'll do what I have to do. Thanks! Andrew Bassett
On Monday 03 January 2005 06:57, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
Andrew, I use this site as a starting point.
I have done quite well with SuSE 9.2 up to the point of getting my nVidia MX 440 SE card to switch to svideo and provide the proper resolution. Things work well in a window on my 19" Sony computer monitor - but what I really want is to drive my 31" Toshiba TV from the s-video out of the nVidia card. I think the problem is I'm using the wrong driver - but am busy and will not get back to it for a day or two.
I have not had to compile any packages so far - just use apt and the SuSE rpms (be sure and use the DVD, not just the CDs which lack some necessary packages. Plus I had to trace down a few dependency problems - e.g. try to get one from the apt sources, it needs a rpm that is only on the SuSE 9.2 DVD; get that then get the apt RPMs, then it needs one more SuSE DVD rpm - but after a few iterations I got everything. Also apt will upgrade KDE which was a bit trick, but a post showed me how to resolve that.
Sorry I do not have time to be more specific now.
Post both to the Myth and Suseto the list, I believe you will get other help as well.
I will have more to report in a few days
- Richard
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Bassett [mailto:abassett@bassettcorp.com] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:21 PM To: rnmixon@FromLtoJ.com Subject: MythTV on SuSE 9.2
Hello,
I got your e-mail off of the MythTV mailing list from a few days ago. I recently put together a MythTV box, and stumbled across Jarod Wilson's install guide, but I am unhappy with the current state of Fedora. I'm more accustomed to SuSE, and noticed that you are running it as well. Ive read before that SuSE has problems with MythTV because of differeing qt-devel packages. Have you had any problems?
Is there a site like Jarod Wilson's for SuSE? or an apt repository like Axel Thimm's? It would be a pain to have to compile everything from source, but I'll do what I have to do.
Thanks!
Andrew Bassett
Excerpt from my post of about 2 weeks ago: --8<-- On Monday 20 December 2004 23:03, David Chapman wrote:
I am preparing to make myself a Mythtv box and would like to know if there is a howto specific to SuSE along the lines of this excelent site http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php Which is Fedora based.
Or alternatively check out: http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/ for prebuilt SuSE rpms for 9.1 & 9.2. --8<-- -- Steve Boddy
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