Quick plug for Arch Linux - Kubuntu kept locking up my laptop, goodbye Ubuntu, hello Arch! Should have done it earlier. 30 second boot times and 15 second shutdowns, yeah baby. I just had to get a mythtv remote frontend on my shiny new Arch distro!

I am not too familiar with what is contained in the Arch packages, so this is what I installed first. Some are installed by default.
qt, pyqt, dbus-qt3, gcc3, freetype2, libxft, xorg-server, lame

I needed to do some changes on my particular case to get mythtv to see the qt3 information. You may not have to do this.
cp /opt/qt/mkspecs/linux-g++ /opt/qt/mkspecs/default
ln -s /opt/qt /usr/share/qt3
cd /home/yourusername/svn/mythtv
make clean
./configure ( didn't use any options, I dont have nvidia card so dont use xvmc)
qmake mythtv.pro
make (it took about 45 minutes on my laptop)
make install
edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add /usr/local/lib, save then run ldconfig -v
cd /usr/local/bin
./mythfrontend (it will try to connect to the local db, in my case it wont/doesnt find one)
edit /home/yourusername/.mythtv/mysql.txt and change the db information
now run mythfrontend again.

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ASUS A7N266 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
MicroAtx Case
2 PVR250's w/remote
eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital