I am in the process of getting mythtv running on my Slackware 10.2 box
(which runs a 2.6.16 kernel). I had a look into Slackware howtos available
in the net for this purpose, but they all seem to be a bit outdated - for
Slackware 9.1.

I surmise that things will be similar under 10.2, but I
would be grateful if members of this forum who have got mythtv running
under 10.2 could share their experiences. The only glitch I have found so
far is that I can't compile lirc-0.8 with my 2.6 kernel - there is an
issue with the i2c component.

Howard Bryce wrote:
> I am in the process of getting mythtv running on my Slackware 10.2 box
> (which runs a 2.6.16 kernel). I had a look into Slackware howtos available
> in the net for this purpose, but they all seem to be a bit outdated - for
> Slackware 9.1.

I was going to write up a HOWTO for this, but I got distracted. I took
a week off work for my birthday over which I did the install, but due
to a problem with MythTV not being able to unmute my TV card, I spent
the whole week tracking down that issue rather then writing up the
HOWTO! Also, my girlfriend has just given birth to a baby boy, so we
have other time comsuming hobbies now :-S

> I surmise that things will be similar under 10.2, but I
> would be grateful if members of this forum who have got mythtv running
> under 10.2 could share their experiences. The only glitch I have found so
> far is that I can't compile lirc-0.8 with my 2.6 kernel - there is an
> issue with the i2c component.

I don't use lirc; I simply use a wireless keyboard. Its not ideal, but
it works fine for now. My plan is to get a "learning" remote, and
simply program the keyboard into that.

Other than that, pretty much everything works just as it should. From
the list of dependencies, I found I didn't need qt-devel and
freetype2-devel as they were included with Slack. I grabbed lame,
cdialog and XMLTV (get the perl XMLTV dependency packages included with
it too, its easier than installing them by hand). This being slack they
all compile and install with no problems. I would then grab TVTime and
install just to check your TV card as well; it will help confirm that
the crucial part of your setup is working. Then just grab all the
MythTV stuff. It takes a while to compile, but again I haven't had any
problems. The only things that don't work on my setup are MythBrowser,
which I can live without and mythfilldatabase; it doesn't seem to want
to run from myth, or from a cronjob, but simply stick it in a bash
script and run it as a cron job and it should be fine. Sorry this isn't
any more helpful but as I mention with a two week old baby in the
house, life is a bit chaotic at the moment. If you get stuck with
anything, please do let me know. I am by no means a MythTV expert, but
have been running it on various versions of Slack for about two years
now and once it is setup, it runs fantastically. Slack is of course and
excellent platform for MythTV.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:11:49 -0700, reclusive monkey wrote:

> Howard Bryce wrote:
>> I am in the process of getting mythtv running on my Slackware 10.2 box
>> (which runs a 2.6.16 kernel). I had a look into Slackware howtos
>> available in the net for this purpose, but they all seem to be a bit
>> outdated - for Slackware 9.1.
>
> I was going to write up a HOWTO for this, but I got distracted. I took a
> week off work for my birthday over which I did the install, but due to a
> problem with MythTV not being able to unmute my TV card, I spent the whole
> week tracking down that issue rather then writing up the HOWTO! Also, my
> girlfriend has just given birth to a baby boy, so we have other time
> comsuming hobbies now :-S
>
>> I surmise that things will be similar under 10.2, but I
>> would be grateful if members of this forum who have got mythtv running
>> under 10.2 could share their experiences. The only glitch I have found
>> so far is that I can't compile lirc-0.8 with my 2.6 kernel - there is an
>> issue with the i2c component.
>
> I don't use lirc; I simply use a wireless keyboard. Its not ideal, but it
> works fine for now. My plan is to get a "learning" remote, and simply
> program the keyboard into that.
>
> Other than that, pretty much everything works just as it should. From the
> list of dependencies, I found I didn't need qt-devel and freetype2-devel
> as they were included with Slack. I grabbed lame, cdialog and XMLTV (get
> the perl XMLTV dependency packages included with it too, its easier than
> installing them by hand). This being slack they all compile and install
> with no problems. I would then grab TVTime and install just to check your
> TV card as well; it will help confirm that the crucial part of your setup
> is working. Then just grab all the MythTV stuff. It takes a while to
> compile, but again I haven't had any problems. The only things that don't
> work on my setup are MythBrowser, which I can live without and
> mythfilldatabase; it doesn't seem to want to run from myth, or from a
> cronjob, but simply stick it in a bash script and run it as a cron job and
> it should be fine. Sorry this isn't any more helpful but as I mention with
> a two week old baby in the house, life is a bit chaotic at the moment. If
> you get stuck with anything, please do let me know. I am by no means a
> MythTV expert, but have been running it on various versions of Slack for
> about two years now and once it is setup, it runs fantastically. Slack is
> of course and excellent platform for MythTV.

Thanks for your feedback. I know what it is like living with a two week
old baby at home: Chances are that you are not getting much sleep :-)

Anyway, my setup seems to be working fine so far. I believe my TV capture
board (a Hauppauge PVR-150) to be working fine (which I will ascertain
once I get the cable to connect it to my satellite box). Is it at all
necessary to get some sort of remote control device, or can everything be
controlled from the keyboard attached to the computer running mythtv?

Howard Bryce wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback. I know what it is like living with a two week
> old baby at home: Chances are that you are not getting much sleep :-)

Sleep? What's that then? ;-) Actually he's getting better already.
Sometime we almost get five hours!

> Is it at all
> necessary to get some sort of remote control device, or can everything be
> controlled from the keyboard attached to the computer running mythtv?

No, everything can easily be controlled from the keyboard. The only
reason for a remote is that its nicer to have that on the coffee table
than a keyboard as far as I can tell. It does wonders for the GAF/WAF
(Girlfriend/Wife Acceptance Factor). I've already got my girlfriend
hooked on Myth so she doesn't mind the keyboard now.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:38:18 -0700, reclusive monkey wrote:

> Howard Bryce wrote:
>> Thanks for your feedback. I know what it is like living with a two week
>> old baby at home: Chances are that you are not getting much sleep :-)
>
> Sleep? What's that then? ;-) Actually he's getting better already.
> Sometime we almost get five hours!

Don't get too cocky - babies have a way of reminding you who really is
the boss when you least expect it.

>> Is it at all
>> necessary to get some sort of remote control device, or can everything
>> be controlled from the keyboard attached to the computer running
>> mythtv?
>
> No, everything can easily be controlled from the keyboard. The only
> reason for a remote is that its nicer to have that on the coffee table
> than a keyboard as far as I can tell. It does wonders for the GAF/WAF
> (Girlfriend/Wife Acceptance Factor). I've already got my girlfriend
> hooked on Myth so she doesn't mind the keyboard now.

OK, I'll proceed without a remote control initially. Once I get things to
work I'll have another look into remote control support.

reclusive monkey <reclusive.monkey@gmail.com> trolled:

> I was going to write up a HOWTO for this, but I got distracted. I
> took a week off work for my birthday over which I did the install,
> but due to a problem with MythTV not being able to unmute my TV
> card, I spent the whole week tracking down that issue rather then
> writing up the HOWTO! Also, my girlfriend has just given birth to
> a baby boy, so we have other time comsuming hobbies now :-S

Have you been able to figure out who the father is?

cordially, as always,

rm

reclusive monkey wrote:
> the whole week tracking down that issue rather then writing up the
> HOWTO! Also, my girlfriend has just given birth to a baby boy, so we
> have other time comsuming hobbies now :-S

congrats. and one bit of advice (I have a 15 month old...) you sleep
when they sleep. Otherwise you get no sleep. Especially if you end up
with a kid like my daughter - high energy. It's hard when your 9 month
old only sleeps 9 hours a day... and you need 9 hours yourself. Hard to
do much slacking on three hours of sleep 20 days in a row.

Ray

reclusive monkey wrote:
> The only things that don't work on my setup are MythBrowser,
> which I can live without and mythfilldatabase; it doesn't seem to want
> to run from myth, or from a cronjob, but simply stick it in a bash
> script and run it as a cron job and it should be fine.

Hmm, not quite it seems. I am still having trouble getting
"mythfilldatabase" to run I get this message from cron;

Running mythfilldatabase
2006-07-22 05:30:05.934 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2006-07-22 05:30:06.507 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-07-22 05:30:06.648 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-07-22 05:30:06.705 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-07-22 05:30:06.707 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-07-22 05:30:07.252 Updating source #1 (UK TV) with grabber
tv_grab_uk_rt
2006-07-22 05:30:07.278 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output
+-----------------
2006-07-22 05:30:07.279 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-07-22 05:30:07.280 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
All data is the copyright of the Radio Times website
<http://www.radiotimes.com> and the use of this data is restricted to
personal use only.

term_width must be at least 5 at blib/lib/Class/MethodMaker/Engine.pm
(autosplit+into blib/lib/auto/Class/MethodMaker/Engine/new.al) line 936
2006-07-22 05:30:12.312 ------------------ End of XMLTV output
+------------------
Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
2006-07-22 05:30:12.350 Updating icons for sourceid: 1
2006-07-22 05:30:12.351 New DB connection, total: 4
2006-07-22 05:30:12.352 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
Updated programs: 0 Unchanged programs: 0
2006-07-22 05:30:13.437 New DB connection, total: 5
2006-07-22 05:30:13.438 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-07-22 05:30:13.728 Failed to fetch some program info

Can anyone shed any light on this?

reclusive monkey wrote:
> Howard Bryce wrote:
>
>>I am in the process of getting mythtv running on my Slackware 10.2 box
>>(which runs a 2.6.16 kernel). I had a look into Slackware howtos available
>>in the net for this purpose, but they all seem to be a bit outdated - for
>>Slackware 9.1.
>
>
> I was going to write up a HOWTO for this, but I got distracted. I took
> a week off work for my birthday over which I did the install, but due
> to a problem with MythTV not being able to unmute my TV card, I spent
> the whole week tracking down that issue rather then writing up the
> HOWTO!

Using a 1996 distro does have its drawbacks.

> Also, my girlfriend has just given birth to a baby boy, so we
> have other time comsuming hobbies now :-S

What? I can't believe this! You mean that after only one week trying to get a
software to work on Slack96, you turned your back on it to take care of a baby?

You're not a real Slacker!