[clug] Mythtv setup

Tony and Robyn Lewis beakysnugger at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 10 01:04:42 GMT 2006


Leigh Purdie wrote:
> On 5/10/06, Crosskey, Jason (DPS) <Jason.Crosskey at aph.gov.au> wrote:
>>
>> Can these drivers be installed on an earlier kernel? If so how would I
>> do it.
>
>
> Nah, not without a _heap_ of stuffing around, and a fair bit of kernel
> coding/patching knowledge.
>
> Go with something that is already supported on the distribution you 
> intend
> to use (FC4, or Ubuntu would be my recommendations for mythtv at 
> present) -
> it will save you a lot of heartache.

Agree.  My plan is this, plus using the make-kpkg tool to get a 2.6.17 
kernel + vserver + Xen patches too.

Tony



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