[mythtv-users] FW: MythTV progress (sort of)

[stan]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:51:32AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm sepnding way too much of my time this Christmas vacation trying to get
> a working MythV system :-(
> 
> I've got a machine with a single WinTV card in it, and here is my latest
> effort.
> 
> I reinstalled KnoppMYTH, which as you will recall reboots the machine and
> brings up a configuration dialog. Unfortunatley networking is not
> configured at this point ;-(
> 
> So, I started the configuration dialong, and once it had enable dhcp. I
> changed to a consoel, and did apt-get update apt-ger install xmltv to
> update xmltv. Then I finished the confg dialg. As the dialog ran, ut
> downloaded valid listings. Then I was able to go in and breofly watch live
> TV. Still not chanel change, so I think this is a problem with the
> insertion of the corect tuner module. Also no sound, so the mixer mdule may
> not be correct also.
> 
> Unfortnately, the next time I tried to go into watching live TV it said it
> could not contact the backend. Looking around in the log files, it looks
> like MySQL is dying :-( Any ideas on this?
> 
> Would I be better of starting from KnoppMYTH, or installing Debian
> unstable, and then grabing myth? I have failed both ways at the present
> time.
> 

A bit more data here, that might help.

I install fbyv, and grabed a working .xawtv file from another machien, and
this makes chanel changing work fine for fbtv, still no sound though.


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