[HLUG] CentOS

[Morven Lewis-Everley]

Apparently Mythbuntu is a very good MythTV based distro.

A recent Episode of Systm talks about setting up MythBuntu:

http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt/

Looks pretty simple.

Mo



On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM, matt stone <stone.matthew at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just to follow on from this in case other folks find it useful...
>
> Install went a dream. I'm still getting a lot of stuff installed that
> i don't want (bluetooth services, huh?) but it should be fairly easy
> to go through the yum log and find the rubbish i don't want. I was
> amazed at how much better fedora 8 handled my rt73 wireless dongle.
> With 6 the firmware wasn't getting loaded correctly so i had to hack
> my boot scripts to bring up the wireless later on in the boot
> sequence, no such pain this time round.
>
> The only real aggravation  i had was when i found my problem wasn't
> software but hardware related (all the capacitors on my 2 month old
> graphics card had blown!) Luckily i had a spare ati card floating
> artound and got this installed but then found out that the radeon xorg
> driver disables the tv out which wasn't much use to me as the machine
> is connected to a crt via an svideo to scart convertor. Thankfully
> "man radeon" told me all i needed to know to enable tv out in
> xorg.conf and i was hooked back up to the tv by about 3am this
> morning. A couple of hours sleep later and i'd configured autlogin for
> mythtv and got ratpoison configured and up and running as mythtv's
> default window manager.
>
> Fingers crossed, i'll have mythtv installed and runnig before the
> weekend's over :)
>
> Cheers
> Matt
>
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