On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 > years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to > build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I > gave up. Since MythTV was written for Linux I thought I might have an > easier time just using Linux. > > I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to boot on my system. > Lurking here and seeing the success others were having with Fedora and > Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try. But unfortunately, > I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system. Attached to this > card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive. However the sata_promise driver > doesn't support the PATA interface on this card. Only the SATA > interfaces. > > Googling suggested that to get this support, I needed to patch the > sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel. Lot's of googling > later and I've built and installed a custom kernel. Seems to boot fine > and the PATA drive is now recognized! :) But now, other packaged > modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod Wilson's guide > don't work. :( I suspect this is because they were packaged for the > default kernel and not the custom one I built? > > It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about Linux and how to build > what I need from source. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest > some good newbie guides to this stuff? I find snippets googling but > have been unable to turn up any complete guides.
Drew, Out of interest, what system/motherboard are you builing your Myth system with? Are there no other PATA connectors other than those connected to the Promise controller? Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users