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Installing MythTV 0.19 on SuSE 10.0





On 3/21/06, Ping-Wu Zhang <pwzhangz (at) gmail.com> wrote:
I have been thinking about MythTV for quite some time but have just recently ordered a Hauppauge PVR 350.  My OS is SuSE 10.0, and would like to run MythTV along with FreeNX.

Can anyone tell me where I can find a good place or places that talk about installing MythTV 0.19 on SuSE 10.0 (i.e., HOWTOs) in detail?  Thanks.

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I'm currently doing a very similar setup except I'm using a PVR-150.  You have two key steps:  (1) get the card working and (2) get MythTV working.

For the first step, http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Suse is probably the best place to start.  The ivtv drivers included with SuSE 10 are a bit older but for me that are doing fine ( no reason to upgrade yet ).  Unless you upgrade your kernel past the ivtv 0.3.7 threashold you shouldn't have to do anything more than in the basic instructions.  One tip I will offer here, I had no luck with the firmware designated for 0.3.7.  However, when I grabed the firmware for 0.4.0 and put that in the directory expected by 0.3.7 my card came to life. 

For the second step, I found a repository which I added to YaST that offered a MythTV 0.19 bundle.  So far I have only gotten as far as initial setup and haven't had a chance to actually test it yet, but it has appeared to go fine.  The one gottcha on this is that the bundle did not include the database files which I needed to dump into MySQL, but I just went to the MythTV web site and downloaded a package, copied the files over, and it all came together.

When I get home to my system I will try to post the repository address but I believe I just found it by searching this forum or by Google ( can't remember which ).

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