I was wondering if this hardware will work out of the box:

Firewire Input from DCT-6200(PCI firewire card from belkin)
PVR-150 and its Remote(silver one if I remember correctly)
and an Nvidia 6200 integrated graphics
AMD processor(3200+ sempron i think)
512 MB RAM

if it won't work out of the box is it something simple to fix, i am relatively new to linux and dont want to get in over my head

Thanks In Advance

EDIT: the hdd ise ide

Usually things don't just work out of the box. Be prepared to have issues and have to search through the forum. I can tell you from personal experience that the firewire to DCT6200 does not work flawlessly. Some days it works, other days it just decides not to, and will require some maintenence to get it back up and running. The PVR150 will be reliable once it is set up properly. You have enough processor power for HD, but the 512MB RAM might be low. If you run into problems, upgrade to 1GB.

I was also relatively new to linux (and still am) when I built my first MythTV, although I have extensive computing experience outside of linux. MythTV is my reason to finally buckle down and learn the innards of linux. If you do not have the time to do so (or care), I would suggest something more novice friendly, like Tivo or Beyond TV.

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Currently running: R5.5, HD5000 x 2, PVR150, Athlon 64 3000+, Chaintech VNF4, 1GB RAM, 2 x 250GB in LVM, MSI NX6200TC -> AA 9A60 -> HDTV

ok, any good places to check for instructions on how to set up things that dont work flawlessly?

The best place to start is here:
http://knoppmythwiki.org/
http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?id=HowTo

Here are some other links. Some you may know about, some you may not:

Watch this video on Knoppmyth if you've never seen Myth before.
http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/

Main site:
http://www.mythtv.org/

Screenshot Gallery:
http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures

General Myth WIKI
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki

Official user mailing list
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/

Non-official, but very useful forum
http://www.mythtvtalk.com

General Myth Information
http://www.mythtv.info

Myth version tracker (site may be temporarily down)
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/


Good luck with it!

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Currently running: R5.5, HD5000 x 2, PVR150, Athlon 64 3000+, Chaintech VNF4, 1GB RAM, 2 x 250GB in LVM, MSI NX6200TC -> AA 9A60 -> HDTV

just installed whihc went fine, however after i restarted I got a very long error with the nvidia graphics driver, I believe that the problem is that my 6100(relatively new) is not supported by the 7174 driver. I am wondering whether just updating to 8756 will fix this(it does support the 6100). I remember reading somewhere that this driver has a problem.

Any suggestions?

PS: Is the command to get the new driver
# wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linu ... 6-pkg1.run
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run

There are two or three things that are known to trigger high CPU usage issues. If you avoid those it should be OK, I won't try to list them all here since it's been covered in far more detail elsewhere than I care to repeat.

ok it sounds good, is the code i hate written correct?

and how do i remove the auto install 7174 script

EDIT: found the code to remove the script in another post, however now when I try to download the drive I get a cannot connect to host error(i realize the url in my previous post was eronius and have fixed), i have tried my mobo's and a sperate PCI nic, what is the command to see if it is recognizing my nic card and connecting to the internet?

what type of medium(flash drive, cd, floppy) could i use to bring the drivers to the myth box, that way i could install the graphics driver and install the ethernet drive?

also what would be the commands

If you haven't already run netcardconfig that's a good start. After that, run ifconfig to verify the setup, and try something like:

to prove that you can get stuff off the net.

yay! netcardconfig was all it took, i should be up and running shortly, much thanks to everyone!

everything is up and running and i am loving it, now 2 questions:

1)how do i connect to mythweb if im not on my LAN?
2)neither of my remotes(Hauggauge silver or ATI) seem to work, even though the LIRC is set up correctly for both of them, any ideas?

thanks, to all

Move on...

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

anohter question :

if two recordings are both set to have a one minute cushion and are back to back, is there anyway to get myth to just ignore the cushion in cases like this(so as not to miss out on an entire recording)?