[mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

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Andrew Close wrote:

>On 10/19/05, Alex Cruz <alex at wislug.net> wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:34 pm, ffrr wrote:
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>>>My current plan of attack is to wait for the Mandriva 2006 upgrade to
>>>become public and try that, before going down the route of shelling out
>>>money on a new card.
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>> How about trying one of the "quickstart" distros like KnoppMyth or MythDora.
>>Personally, I moved away from the Mandrake based distros a while ago. Too
>>much overhead. If you're feeling up to the challenge, you can install Gentoo
>>and create a truly customized Myth install. It's what I run on my laptop.
>>HOURS of compiling fun  ;-)
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>i second that.  if you're going to start over you may want to give
>another distro a try.  KnoppMyth is a pretty quick and very painless
>install.  it has full support for all Myth's many wonderful features
>OOtB (out of the box).  if you have fairly recent hardware, 'it just
>works'.
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>nuff said.
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I have installed knoppmyth a little while back on another machine.  I 
totally agree that it's a good way to go, except I also want to use this 
machine as a day to day home desktop.  So, for a desktop machine, I like 
KDE and it's support apps such as K3B, and I don't think knoppmyth has 
that. There's also some other apps, like Open Office that I would want. 
I suppose I could add the stuff I need, but by that time, I will be back 
to the complexity level I am currently at.

It may become a backend only at some point, in which case I will put 
Knoppmyth on a lesser powered machine as a frontend, but I will still 
want to use the backend as a desktop as well.

Anyway, I see no guarantee it would work any better with my DVB card.  
Just saying that though, maybe I can boot from a Knoppmyth CD just to 
test it.  Does the backend work in Knoppmyth when booted from CD, or do 
I have to install it?  I'd rather not install it because I've heard it 
expects to install to a clean hda, whereas I have sata, and worse, would 
want to put it into something like sda11 (a spare partition).