[Sussex] Fwd: MythTV & getting it to work

[Dave Chapman]

On Mon July 24 2006 09:47, linux at oneandoneis2.org wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I know a few people have got working Myth boxes, so I'm hoping
> somebody can offer some advice.
>
> We've been trying to get Myth working on & off for a few months. We've
> got two Hauppauge PCI cards - a simple WinTV analogue card, and an
> analgue+digital HVR one that only became supported with kernel 2.6.16
>
> The problem is, whilst we can get myth installed just fine, and the
> hardware appears to be recognised & in working order, Myth never
> actually finds any channels or allows us to watch any TV.
>
> Much as I hate to confess to distro-hopping in hopes of one "just
> working", we've tried Gentoo, Ubuntu & KnoppMyth. Oh, and Knoppix 5.01
> just on the off-chance.
Have you tried Amicus

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amicus

It's just a script to help with installing and configuring mythtv on a debian 
system.
Andrew the maintainer is very help full.

The website has a "mondo rescue" iso to get you started

> We've done kernel upgrades and all sorts: lspci and dmesg make it
> clear that the cards are detected & recognised and the drivers are
> there & working. But the only way we've managed to actually get a TV
> picture out of them was to install Windows XP and use the Hauppauge
> software, and we both *refuse* to accept that as an option :o)
>
> So: We've got hardware that demonstrably works, and that is supported
> under Linux, verified by dmesg telling us they're there & the drivers
> are installed. And yet Myth still can't seem to do anything with them.
> Are we missing something blindingly obvious?
>
> Any help most gratefully received
>
> Dominic
>
>
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