Opensuse 10.2
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openSUSE 10.2
(work in progress. - need to grab some of my stuff from http://moosy.blogspot.com/2006/12/mythtv-on-opensuse-102.html and put it in here.
openSUSE 10.2 32 and 64 work out the box. Stuff life lirc and ivtv is all there. kernel 2.6.18.2-34
Adding YaST Sources
To add the External YaST Repositories for MythTV, open YaST, go to "Installation Sources" and press Add. There, first select the protocol and, on the next page, enter the server and the directory as listed below.
add pacman as your installation source: [1]
Protocol - HTTP Server name - packman.iu-bremen.de Directories - suse/10.2
opensuse 10.2 installation sources here [2]
You may also use /usr/bin/installation_sources to add/remove/show repositories from command line.
IVTV
openSUSE 10.2 ships with ivtv version 0.8.0 (ivtv wiki - [3])
lspci can give you more info on your card and tuner: In this example we use a PVR500MCE that is shown by
lspci
Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Make sure you use the correct firmware, exmplained here http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Firmware_filenames
Save the firmware in: /lib/firmware
cat /etc/modprobe.d /tv
alias char-major-81 videodev options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # YaST configured TV card # Uog3.chCB1CyIbw9:WinTV PVR 150 alias char-major-81-0 ivtv # YaST configured TV card # ZvjX.sZc4ePByvkF:WinTV PVR 150 alias char-major-81-1 ivtv alias char-major-81-2 off alias char-major-81-3 off
dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.8.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.18.2-34-default SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: This is the first unit of a PVR500 tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039 etc..
lirc
openSUSE 10.2 ships with lirc 0.8.0.
config file for your remote /etc/lircd.conf You can get a lircd.conf for your remote on the http://lirc.org website or create your own file with irxevent and/or mode2
mapping of keys to myth functions /home/user/.mythtv/lircrc
lcd
lcdproc [4] is not part of opensuse 10.2. you need to download the source and compile yourself.
mysql
create the database
mysql -u root < /usr/share/doc/packages/mythtv/database/mc.sq
fill the database
with xmltv is country specific. We use http://graphics.tudelft.nl/~paul/grabber/ for the Netherlands.