[Cialug] Myth Games

Nathan C. Smith smith at ipmvs.com
Wed Nov 23 10:20:50 CST 2005 

Need like a 64 bit CPU.  Actually not so RAM-hungry, needs a lot of
bandwidth - both memory and pci bus though. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Von Ahsen [mailto:barry at vonahsen.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:31 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Myth Games


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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