The short answer is: yes, yes, yes, possible (filesharing), maybe (wifi) :)
There's some documentation links on the freevo webpage. Someone has put together a nice writeup on configuration etc. If you click on the SourceForge Filelist on the version number link (1.3.2, for current), there is a short description of what files you should download. For RedHat 9, you need the *i36.rpm files (freevo, freevo-runtime, freevo-apps). freevo-boot is meant for booting automatically into freevo but I'm not using it myself so I don't know if there's any additional steps needed to make it work properly. With the NVidia GF card, you should TV out in framebuffer mode by just booting your PC with the composite out plugged into the TV. Getting it setup in X11 needs some tweaking of the XF86Config file in /etc/X11. (Read the docs). The important part is to get your TV card setup properly for use with xawtv (available from the RH install CD). Once that's done, you should be able to get going with the basic freevo functionality (except recording which needs some detailed configuration first). Can't help you with the Wifi connection, you have to be careful with the recently produced Wifi cards, many uses chipsets that are too new for Linux (even though the model number on the card is identical to older ones using supported chipsets). T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. of Science Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7 On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, freevolist wrote: > Hi everyone noob here. Freevo looks exactly what I need! > > I have however not been tinkering with Linux for long. > > I currently have: > > - Abit KT7a Mobo > - WinTV PCI Card > - nVidia gForce 2 MX (with TV out) > - SBLive! SoundCard > > > Another problem is when I run Red Hat on my current PC it cant find my > WiFi network as there is no support for my USB arial :-( so once I cant > get online to: > > ALSO, how easy would file sharing between this box and my Windows > machine be? I have a WiFi router with a single network port, of course I > need a standard Cat5 network card to connect the thing, or a Linux > friendly WiFi card/arial. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
