[Cialug] Myth Games

Tue Nov 22 09:40:29 CST 2005

Personally, I'm a fan of using mythtv RPMs on top of Fedora Core 4.   
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php When I ran knoppmyth, upgrading  
seemed to be quite broken (probably not the case now).

The only frustration I've had thus far with this configuration is  
wanting ffmpeg with aac support so I can create RSS feeds for my  
ipod :)  If anyone knows where such a pre-compiled beast might exist  
I'd be eternally grateful.  I've tried recompiling, but things seem  
to be more broken than I have time in the day to fix!

-Tom

On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:

> Yeah, seems that versions of Knoppmyth break things and I'd rather  
> just stick with what I know given how finniky all this stuff can  
> be.  The setup was pretty painful but once I get this working  
> hopefully it'll run for a year or more before I get the upgrade  
> urge again.
>
> I am, however, using knoppmyth for frontends.
>
> --Tnoy
>
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>> Depends on your machine and whether you are into MAME.
>> I like it to play frozen bubble sometimes.
>> Otherwise....
>> Is there a reason you went the gentoo way instead of knoppmyth?   
>> Knoppmyth
>> puts games moives, dvd ripper mythphone mythweb - just gads of  
>> stuff on
>> without any effort.  Then it's just up to you to tune it and load  
>> any other
>> video drivers etc. you may need.
>> -nate
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com] Sent: Tuesday,  
>> November 22, 2005 8:46 AM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: [Cialug] Myth Games
>> Is Myth Games worth the work?  I grabbed whatever the default  
>> version of xmame is from Portage and when I go to the games  
>> submenu it complains that the version of xmame isn't supported.   
>> Then I got to thinking it may not be worth fixing the problem,  
>> then I got to thinking it would be 'cool' if for no other reason  
>> the simple selfish geek satisfaction. Anybody else using Myth Games?
>> ...and is there a way to figure out what version of xmame will  
>> work with   Myth 0.18?
>> --Tony
>> Bryan Baker wrote:
>>> Or - do what is considered best practice on the platform and  
>>> leave  root
>>> alone, and sudo any commands that need root priv's. most of the   
>>> time that ammounts to "sudo vi smb.conf" or whatever.
>>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Or you can do sudo -s and get a root shell that way too
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:59 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sudo passwd root
>>>>> to set root's password and then you can su like any other box :)
>>>>>
>>>>> -Tom
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on  
>>>>>> OSX.  I need root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this  
>>>>>> is a new box...what do I need to do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Tony
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.   
>>>>>>> I  don't remember off top of my head on the regular desktop  
>>>>>>> if you can do it easily, but worst case since you have your  
>>>>>>> share already setup,  just edit /etc/smb.conf and change the  
>>>>>>> share name.  You'll have to reboot or just restart samba  
>>>>>>> services with SystemStarter restart samba. Dan
>>>>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to  
>>>>>>>> simply mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in  
>>>>>>>> the name.  Or , at least, I don't know how to make them work  
>>>>>>>> via fstab.  The file system I'm trying to mount is:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> //server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I  
>>>>>>>> tried a few different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no  
>>>>>>>> avail.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/ 
>>>>>>>> MusicSymLink to the iTunes folder but that gives errors  
>>>>>>>> about a bad share name.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --Tony
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