My long awaited project of building my own Tivo-like device has finally started. I’ve just put together the box and have RedHat 9 installed. I plan to use MythTV as my PVR software. It seems to be the most active and feature filled of the bunch (Freevo seems to be the other popular choice).
At this point I’m having trouble getting the NVidia driver loaded (for TV-out). I’m using the install guide here (and am even using the exact hardware of Jarod’s system) but my XFree config doesn’t want to work. The log keeps saying something to the effect of “can’t load NVIDIA module”. I know Jarod’s setup uses a seperate NVidia video card instead of the TV-out functionality of the Chaintech 7NIF2 motherboard (which is what I’m trying to use), but I was hoping I could get it to work.
Here’s my setup:
- Coolermaster ATC case
- Chaintech 7NIF2 MB w/ onboard ethernet/video/TV-out/sound
- Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton)
- 200 GB HD
How frustrating linux still is, but I knew this was a real possibility before I started, or else I would gotten a Tivo…
