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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:26 am 
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Aloha-
Just downloaded you iso and cant wait to try it.
I will be using a amd xp 1700, 512 ddr ram, 80 gig hd,win tv, nv gf3.
I will post any progress or problems I have.
I encourage others to do the same so we can have some kind of database to check out what works with what.
Mahalo for your time in putting this iso together.
dag33k

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:15 am 
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You're very welcome.

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Sorry for the delay in checking back with you. I had my power supply go out and it's not the easiest thing to get here on Maui. (boohoo) Anyway I am stuck I patitioned my hard drive as you recomended but I cant seam to be able to get out of the "Partition Menu". After writing thet partition table it kicks back to the previous menu 1.Partition or 2.Quit. I chose quit and the menu reapears. I rebooted and the partitions are there but I still only get the "Partition Menu"
confused in maui,
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Unfortunately this happens with some drives and I am uncertain what the cause is. If you have another disto available, whip the drive clean then try w/ KnoppMyth again.

cesman


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:51 am 
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Ok I got it installed. YEA :D
I used partion magic to clean the drive and set up the partitions.
Couple of issues
1. When I tried "#mke2fs -O sparse_super -m0 -i8000000 -L cache -M /cache /dev/hda3
This should yeild some performance increase on /cache(used for the ring buffer)

#mke2fs -j -O sparse_super -m0 -i8000000 -L myth -M /myth /dev/hda4
(I highly recommend a journalling fs for /dev/hda4)

I got sparse_super OS not recogonized

So I left it alone.
2. I have to run "startx" to get x going and then left click mythtv

This is not a problem but it seemed like it would boot to Mythtv

3. When I try to watch tv I get a green screen and a small band of snow at the top of the screen.

How do I check out if the tv-card is working correctly?
I'm a purpetual *nix newbie.

4. Shouldn't I see the mouse/cursor on the main screen?
Again not a huge problem the arrow keys work fine.

Help me get the tv going and everything else seems to work.

Mahalo for your time and patinence
dag33k

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:34 am 
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P.S. Sound doesnt want to work :cry:
Sorry for being a problem
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:01 am 
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dag33k wrote:
Ok I got it installed. YEA :D
I used partion magic to clean the drive and set up the partitions.
Couple of issues
1. When I tried "#mke2fs -O sparse_super -m0 -i8000000 -L cache -M /cache /dev/hda3
This should yeild some performance increase on /cache(used for the ring buffer)

#mke2fs -j -O sparse_super -m0 -i8000000 -L myth -M /myth /dev/hda4
(I highly recommend a journalling fs for /dev/hda4)

I got sparse_super OS not recogonized

So I left it alone.

Odd, it should work.

dag33k wrote:
2. I have to run "startx" to get x going and then left click mythtv

This is not a problem but it seemed like it would boot to Mythtv

You're right, GDM should start X and automatically log in the user mythtv and MythTV should start automatically. Check /etc/inittab you should see something like this:
Code:
id:5:initdefault:

This would be near the top of the file after some comments. If you see a 3 instead of a 5, make it a 5. This will start X automatically.

dag33k wrote:
3. When I try to watch tv I get a green screen and a small band of snow at the top of the screen.

How do I check out if the tv-card is working correctly?
I'm a purpetual *nix newbie.

What kind of tuner do you have? When KnoppMyth is booting you should see something about bttv and /dev/video. It goes by fast so at a prompt:
Code:
dmesg | more


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4. Shouldn't I see the mouse/cursor on the main screen?

Yes, you should.
dag33k wrote:
Again not a huge problem the arrow keys work fine.

Help me get the tv going and everything else seems to work.

Mahalo for your time and patinence
dag33k


Use aumix to set the volume. No problem at all.

cesman


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:35 am 
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does knoppmyth actually use runlevel 5? I've been making all my changes to 2 Doh! I just assumed since debian uses 2 that this would too. Well I guess I got what I deserved by assuming.


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