PCLinuxOS 2007
Last week we tried installing myth from scratch on PCLinuxOS 2007.
It mostly went smoothly.
I added my 'cx88_dvb' driver to '/etc/modprobe.preload' like normal.
loaded driver manually so we didn't have to reboot
# modprobe cx88_dvb
Added a mythtv user through PCLinuxOS User Management and made sure this user was part of the wheel group.
Installled 'mysql'
Started mysql
# service mysqld start
Installed myth packages, 'mythtv', 'mythtv-frontend', 'mythtv-backend', 'mythtv-setup'
As we forgot to install mysql before mythtv on our machine we had to load the mythtv database manually and grant permission to the 'mythtv' user with the following commands:
# mysql -u root < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/database/mc.sql mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'mythtv'@'localhost' identified by 'mythtv'
Run mythtv setup
$ mythtv-setup
We had a problem with 'tv_grab_au' script not working, this is common and has happened in all distros so far.
We had to download this file from www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wilu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_reg
rename it to 'tv_grab_au' and run:
# chmod +x tv_grab_au
Then move this file to any directory within path such as '/usr/local/bin'
If you had this problem you will now need to rerun mythtv-setup
Fill the DB
$ mythfilldatabase
Now we could start mythtv and watch TV, we logged in as a user called 'mythuser'
$ mythbackend
$ mythfrontend
Thoughts
At the end once this was up and going adding features such as video, images, music, games was pretty simple. The TV driver is the best we have seen so far, we can change channels in 3 seconds which is acceptable. This maybe even less if you have a good hard drive, which we don't.
Weather didn't work, but we haven't spent time fixing it yet.
News was easy so now I can read RSS feeds, but adding new ones doesn't seem to work yet.
What's next
Next we will test MythDora 4.0 and see how good it really is!
I would also like to get mythstream working as it allows you to watch internet TV and Radio.
We have brought some USB gamepads which look like Playstation controllers. We want to get these working with all the emulators especially the playstation emulator with GT2
It mostly went smoothly.
I added my 'cx88_dvb' driver to '/etc/modprobe.preload' like normal.
loaded driver manually so we didn't have to reboot
# modprobe cx88_dvb
Added a mythtv user through PCLinuxOS User Management and made sure this user was part of the wheel group.
Installled 'mysql'
Started mysql
# service mysqld start
Installed myth packages, 'mythtv', 'mythtv-frontend', 'mythtv-backend', 'mythtv-setup'
As we forgot to install mysql before mythtv on our machine we had to load the mythtv database manually and grant permission to the 'mythtv' user with the following commands:
# mysql -u root < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/database/mc.sql mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'mythtv'@'localhost' identified by 'mythtv'
Run mythtv setup
$ mythtv-setup
We had a problem with 'tv_grab_au' script not working, this is common and has happened in all distros so far.
We had to download this file from www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wilu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_reg
rename it to 'tv_grab_au' and run:
# chmod +x tv_grab_au
Then move this file to any directory within path such as '/usr/local/bin'
If you had this problem you will now need to rerun mythtv-setup
Fill the DB
$ mythfilldatabase
Now we could start mythtv and watch TV, we logged in as a user called 'mythuser'
$ mythbackend
$ mythfrontend
Thoughts
At the end once this was up and going adding features such as video, images, music, games was pretty simple. The TV driver is the best we have seen so far, we can change channels in 3 seconds which is acceptable. This maybe even less if you have a good hard drive, which we don't.
Weather didn't work, but we haven't spent time fixing it yet.
News was easy so now I can read RSS feeds, but adding new ones doesn't seem to work yet.
What's next
Next we will test MythDora 4.0 and see how good it really is!
I would also like to get mythstream working as it allows you to watch internet TV and Radio.
We have brought some USB gamepads which look like Playstation controllers. We want to get these working with all the emulators especially the playstation emulator with GT2
posted by Mick at 1:53 AM
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