[mythtv-users] Fwd: which new OS for old frontend?

[Stephen Brooks]

On Dec 6, 2007 5:30 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> Seems weird to call a system that was in perfect working order a month
> ago "old", but that's what I'm faced with. I had an ASUS Pundit-R
> machine as a frontend (SD only) that had Fedora Core 5 on it and it was
> working well. I had performed several SVN updates and all was well, but
> the last one caused a display problem (flickering, unwatchable) that I
> had no idea how to solve, and FC5 is pretty old now, I figured I'd start
> over with a completely new system. No tuner cards to worry about,
> shouldn't be that hard. But this has turned out to be a disastrous
> mistake.
>
> First I tried FC8; hopefully it will be longer before I have to do this
> again if I start with the most recent OS. Got Myth working, LIRC
> working, all looked good until I plugged it into my TV. Of course, dumb
> ass; no TV out! Never thought of that. Never could get it working
> either; dead end. This is a Radeon 9100 IGP built-in video chip. The
> default radeon driver doesn't support TV out (yes, I tried "atitvout",
> which after I ran it dutifully reported that the TV was enabled, but I
> could see nothing on the TV once X started (the BIOS screen looked OK so
> I can rule out bad cables or TV problems). I tried the ATI proprietary
> driver, and got errors building the kernel module. Even after putting in
> appropriate symlinks and hacking in a UTS_RELEASE definition in the
> kernel include files so it would quit complaining about kernel version
> mismatches, I still got compile errors trying to build the kernel
> module. I'm no kernel hacker, so that was a dead end. I also tried
> installing the ATI driver via RPM from Livna, but although it installed
> and loaded fine, it failed to detect any devices, so X would not start.
>
> The ATI driver page says they only support Red Hat Enterprise 4 in the
> Red Hat flavor, so fine, I tried CentOS 4. This time I got wise and did
> the TV out first. It worked, with the ATI driver. But now I can't get
> LIRC to work. I get errors again trying to compile the kernel module (I
> tried 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8 versions), and I have not been able to find any
> RPMS that are compatible. Another dead end, at least for now.
>
> Does anybody know how to make TV Out work on FC8 with this built-in
> motherboard video chip, or how to get LIRC to compile on CentOS 4? Will
> it work better with FC7 instead of FC8? Will the ATI driver build on
> CentOS 5 even though it's not supported, and if so, are there LIRC
> packages for CentOS 5? I suppose I could try Ubuntu, but I'm not as
> familiar with Debian-based systems as I am with Red-Hat-based systems,
> so this could be a big rat hole to go down.
>
> The combination of TV out and LIRC has beaten me for anything more
> recent than FC5.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> --Greg
>
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Not RPM based but it does get the TV out working on a Pundit-R

http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv.php