Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-26 Thread Richard Sears
Thanks Jeff - I will give it a try !! On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:29:06 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's slightly complicated, but definitely still doable, more so than just installing from tarballs. The short version is that you'll want to create a portage overlay where you

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Richard J. Sears
Thanks David - I will be running the backend on a Dual Athlon (2400's). Hopefully this will be fast enough for my backend. On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:54:46 + David Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard J. Sears wrote: Richard - Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Scott Alfter
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:01:25AM -0800, Richard J. Sears wrote: Having been working with Asterisk on Gentoo for some time now I know that using the Gentoo method with software that changes quickly and whose plugins and addons require manual configs, patches and makes sometimes it may be

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Jim Kusznir
Dan Littlejohn wrote: There are good guides for Gentoo installs here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_MythTV http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html Includes use flags and window manager opinions. for the 15 min install there is Jarod's Guide for Red Hat, lol.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Richard Sears
Dan, How do I instruct emerge to use the CVS instead of the ebuild on the system..? I have never done that! Thanks On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:20:32 -0800, Jim Kusznir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Littlejohn wrote: There are good guides for Gentoo installs here:

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Jeff Simpson
It's slightly complicated, but definitely still doable, more so than just installing from tarballs. The short version is that you'll want to create a portage overlay where you copy ebuilds that you download yourself. You set up portage to look in this local overlay first, and then all you have to

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:23:44 -0800, Richard Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, How do I instruct emerge to use the CVS instead of the ebuild on the system..? I have never done that! Thanks On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:20:32 -0800, Jim Kusznir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Littlejohn

[mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Richard J. Sears
Hey Everyone, I have seen the info on installing MythTV on Gentoo and we primarily run Gentoo in our production environment so I am comfortable with it, but Having been working with Asterisk on Gentoo for some time now I know that using the Gentoo method with software that changes quickly

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Rickard Olsson
Richard J. Sears wrote: I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did you use emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..? I used the CVS just before 0.17 came out and the ebuilds when

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Simpson
myth and gentoo work together beautifully :-) The only problems I've run into are when I tried to install myth cvs without emerging it - it copied the include files into /usr/local/mythtv and it was messing up future installs once those includes changed. Once I cleaned those out it was fine

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:11:32 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: myth and gentoo work together beautifully :-) The only problems I've run into are when I tried to install myth cvs without emerging it - it copied the include files into /usr/local/mythtv and it was messing up future

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Richard J. Sears
Richard - Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-) Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use KDE or Gnome..? Thanks Again !!

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread David
Craig Partin wrote: Now how long til Jarod pops in with I can have a red hat box up in 15 minutes? :) Well, I can have a Windows box down in 5 mins - does that count ;) David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Dan Littlejohn
There are good guides for Gentoo installs here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_MythTV http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html Includes use flags and window manager opinions. for the 15 min install there is Jarod's Guide for Red Hat, lol.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Simpson
I use gnome, but not on the myth session. I just use a very minimal setup for myth: http://jeff.jeffornot.com/start_myth.sh for my use flags: USE=gnome2 gtk2 gtk apache2 php perl acpi apm avi esd gnome \ gtkhtml jpeg libwww mpeg mysql opengl perl png samba ssl \ tiff truetype usb X gl pda

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Justin Hornsby
Well, ever since I was a total noob I've been with Gentoo. I'm not counting the abortive attempts at getting FC Redhat to work properly a few years ago... yuk! (Yes I actually messed up my system twice by changing the screen res couldn't find out how to fix it - not having more than one PC

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Loren H. Burlingame
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:01:25 -0800, Richard J. Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everyone, I have seen the info on installing MythTV on Gentoo and we primarily run Gentoo in our production environment so I am comfortable with it, but I am a Gentoo user and the only problem I had was

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Richard J. Sears
Thanks Jeff - this will get me on my way :-) On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:42:42 -0500 Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use gnome, but not on the myth session. I just use a very minimal setup for myth: http://jeff.jeffornot.com/start_myth.sh for my use flags: USE=gnome2 gtk2 gtk

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Kelly Grigg
I've just emerged everything. Worked great on my 0.15 install...trouble was...the box was too weak. I've built another box...emerged everything for 0.16. All is working fine except no sound on TV capture or live...I'm troubleshooting that. The ebuilds for ivtv are built on gentoo for the PVR

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread jhill
I solved this no sound thing by setting my audio matrix like this: /usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -v input=2,output=1 if you change channels do you get sound suddenly? That was the problem I had. Jeff Quoting Kelly Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just emerged everything. Worked great on my

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread David Morrison
Richard J. Sears wrote: Richard - Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-) Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use KDE or