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 in the net for this purpose, but they all seem to be a bit outdated - for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.