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Installing MythTV on SuSE 10.2

Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Chris Farris.
Categories: MythTV.

My root filesystem died on my MythTV server while I was sick last week. After spending a good bit of time trying to recover the data, I lost my database and mythtv build.

Document I followed to get MythTV Installed and ivtv modules working using this document. This document has the package repository used: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2.

This command worked to get the ivtv driver to load:
sudo rpm -Uhv http://jarpack.com/suse/noarch/ivtv-firmware-0.1-1.noarch.rpm

ivtv-fb loaded without issues. It took a bit of googling to find a ivtv driver for xorg. Here it is:
http://www.hellion.org.uk/ivtv/debian/ivtvdev_drv.so~i386

LIRC was the next issue. Here is a bug with LIRC in SuSE 10.2 that prevents /dev/lirc and /dev/lirc0 from being created.
I compiled up the source and was able to copy just the kernel module to fix it.
cp drivers/lirc_i2c/lirc_i2c.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/updates/lirc_i2c

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