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MY HARDWARE

• Knoppmyth: R5C7
  
• Motherboard: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Socket A nForce2 Ultra400/MCP-T,GbLAN,Firewire
  
• CPU: AMD Sempron 2500+ 1.750 GHz Socket A 333MHz, 256KB cache, BOXED
  
• RAM: DDR-DIMM PC3200 512MB DDR CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400MHz)
  
• Graphics Adapter: Gainward FX Powerpack Pro/660 TV/DVI
  
• DVD-RW: NEC DVD recorder ND-3500A IDE Silver Bulk,DVD+R/+RW/DVD-R/-RW
  
• Mouse/key: Creative Desktop Wireless 6000, keyb/mouse, USB
  
• Mouse 2: Logitech MediaPlay USB Mouse
  
• Joypad: Logitech Dual Action USB
  
• Joypad: Saitek P880 USB Joypad
  
• Floppy: Sony Floppy Drive, 3,5" 1,44MB Silver Floppy Drive Internal
  
• Screen: My CRT Sony TV is the only output ever connected to this setup
  
• Network: CNet CWP-854 Wireless-G PCI Adapter
  

Stuff that I had to change:

• PAL: I had to edit XFree to get a good PAL picture on my TV, see the bottom of the post for my config.
  
• Audio: I had to use "v4lctl volume mute off" and "alsamixer" and "alsactl store" to get the sound working. It's all detailed here how to do it. I suggest that you play around with the percentages to get the best sound possible on your setup.
  
• XMLTV tv_grab_no: I had to install the latest version of xmltv (nightly tarball) To build it I followed this: NorwegianMythConfig, for the stuff that complained about "unrecognized option `-Wdeclaration-after-statement'" I :

  Code:

  $ cd /root/.cpan/build/<package> $perl Makefile.PL $vi Makefile

  This is to remove the unrecognized compile flag, then just "make && make install" Then I ran "mythfilldatabase --graboptions --configure" as mythtv, and then "<alt>-<s>" to map the channels. Finally I again ran "mythfilldatabase". It seems to work now.
  
• RaLink2500 wificard:I read Debian_rt2500_Howto. I skipped module-assistant as it's already in place

  Code:

  $ apt-get apt-get install module-assistant $module-assistant prepare

  Added to /etc/apt/sources.list :

  Code:

  deb ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/debian        unstable main contrib non-free

  
  then

  Code:

  $ apt-get update $ apt-get install rt2500-source $ module-assistant auto-install rt2500-source

  The install didn't load the module on my system, or add it to /etc/modules , so I:

  Code:

  $ modprobe rt2500 $ ifconfig -a $ echo rt2500 >> /etc/modules

  You can now use wifi tools to set up the card.
  

Stuff that's not working:

• Joystick navigation in the frontend, see here for my description
  
• Having both bootsplash and virtual consoles available, see here for my findings
  

Comments/Observations, some are more detailed in my blog

• Previous versions of KnoppMyth was hopeless with my keyboard and mouse. It was jittery and useless. Now it's perfect.
  
• I have three tunercards. Hauppauge HVR-1100, Pinnacle PCTV Stereo and the Terratec Cinergy 600 TV. Only the Cinergy is installed
  
• The Hauppauge was worthless in KnoppMyth due to no support in the cx88 driver.
  
• The Pinnacle had good sound, but bad picture in KnoppMyth
  
• The Cinergy has great picture but crap sound in KnoppMyth
  
• Both the Pinnacle and the Cinergy is saa7134 tuner cards.
  

Attatchment:

• My XF86Config-4 for nVidia GeForce FX5200 TV out
  

  Code:

  Section "ServerLayout"         Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" # PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6 # Serial Mouse not detected         InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "ServerFlags"         Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"         Option "NoPM" "true" EndSection Section "Files"         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" #       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" #       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module"         Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor         Load  "GLcore"         Load  "dbe"         Load  "dri"         Load  "extmod"         Load  "glx"         Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts         Load  "speedo"         Load  "type1"         Load  "freetype"         Load  "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice"         Identifier  "Keyboard0"         Driver      "keyboard"         Option      "CoreKeyboard"         Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"         Option "XkbModel" "pc105"         Option "XkbLayout" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice"         Identifier  "Serial Mouse"         Driver      "mouse"         Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"         Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"         Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"         Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice"         Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"         Driver      "mouse"         Option      "Protocol" "auto" Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"         Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"         Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"         Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice"         Identifier      "USB Mouse"         Driver          "mouse"         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"         Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"         Option          "Buttons"               "5" EndSection # Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config Section "Monitor"         Identifier      "sonytv"         HorizSync    30.0 - 50.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors         VertRefresh  50.0 - 50.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.         Modeline  "PAL"        50.00 768 832 856 1000 576 590 595 630 -hsync -vsync         ModeLine "640x480PAL"   29.50       640  675  678  944  480  530  535  625         ModeLine "720x576PAL"   27.50       720  744  800  880  576  581  583  625         ModeLine "800x600PAL"   36.00       800  818  820  960  600  653  655  750 EndSection Section "Device"         Identifier  "gwfx5200"         Driver      "nvidia"         VendorName  "Gainward"         BoardName   "Gainward FX Powerpack Pro/660 TV/DVI"         Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"         Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"         Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" EndSection Section "Screen"         Identifier "Screen0"         Device     "gwfx5200"         Monitor    "sonytv"         DefaultColorDepth 24         SubSection "Display"                 Depth     1                 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"         EndSubSection         SubSection "Display"                 Depth     16                 Modes "800x600PAL" "640x480PAL"         EndSubSection         SubSection "Display"                 Depth     24                 Modes "800x600PAL" "640x480PAL"         EndSubSection         Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"         Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"         Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" EndSection