[Cialug] Myth Games
Barry Von Ahsen
barry at vonahsen.com
Wed Nov 23 09:30:55 CST 2005
Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I have a PCHDTV 3000 card. It needs more processor than I have right now
> AMD Athlon XP3000 or someesuch. To really make it go. I've successfully
good gawd, what specs do they suggest to run properly (cpu/ram)?
-barry
> recorded regular resolution programming off OTA HDTV but not high
> resolution.
>
> I left off during my game message too. To play thing like tuxracer you need
> a bit more CPU and graphics capability than most people have in a computer
> for watching TV.
>
> But, if you are doing HDTV, you may have that much horsepower around.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion [mailto:dave at visionary.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:49 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Myth Games
>
>
> Er... I think I ended that email in mid-thought. Anyway, there are mdk
> rpm packages for most of the common Myth modules. It's really easy to
> install & maintain it, so unless you need some custom stuff, why go thru
> all the pain of building it with Gentoo?
>
> Speaking of Myth... has anyone investigated HD tuner cards with Myth? My
> brother was looking at building a Myth box, but wants HD, since he has a
> HDTV.
>
> -dc
>
> David Champion wrote:
>
>>I'm runnig mythv on Mandriva, it's now part of one of the extended
>>sources (don't recall off-hand if it's in contrib or plf).
>>
>>-dc
>>
>>Tom Pohl wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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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>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Bryan Baker
>>>>>>President
>>>>>>Des Moines Macintosh Users Group
>>>>>>http://www.dmmug.org
>>>>>>president at dmmug.org
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