Fedora 15 as a MythTV v0.24.1 Frontend

These are some of the notes I captured while installing MythTV frontend on a Fedora 15 machine. They are incomplete.

yum groupinstall "XFCE"

Sound

The sound is a NVidia CK804 which has caused me a great deal of grief when attempting to get digital sound out working. The machine has two sound cards:

nVidia HDMI sound (card 0)
nVidia CK804 chipset sound (card 1)

Configure the driver to output digital with the file '/etc/modprobe.d/ck804.conf':

options snd_intel8x0 spdif_aclink=1

The receiver (amplifier) requires digital sound only (no HDMI). The configuration in '/etc/asound.conf' specifies the second card (index 1), and the third IEC958 device (index 2):

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
  device 2
}

Initialise the card with defaults:

# alsactl init 1

Appendices

Network

'/etc/sysconfig/network'

OSTNAME=mythdora.lucidsolutions.co.nz
NTPSERVERARGS=iburst

# IPv4
NETWORKING=yes
NOZEROCONF=yes

# IPv6
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
IPV6INIT=yes

'/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0'

DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:13:D4:4F:49:5F
NM_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
TYPE=Ethernet

DNS1=10.20.12.2
DNS2=10.20.2.5

# IPv4
IPADDR=10.20.12.6
GATEWAY=10.20.12.1
NETWORK=10.20.12.0
BROADCAST=10.20.12.255
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NOZEROCONF=yes
MTU=9000

# IPv6
IPV6ADDR=2001:4428:225:c::6/64
IPV6ADDR_SECONDARIES="fd0c:898b:471c:c::6/64"
IPV6_DEFAULTGW=fe80::1%eth0
IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
IPV6_MTU=9000

ntp

server blue.lucidsolutions.co.nz iburst
server black.lucidsolutions.co.nz iburst
server silver.lucidsolutions.co.nz iburst
server orange.lucidsolutions.co.nz iburst

fstab

//purple.lucidsolutions.co.nz/photo /mnt/photo  cifs    ro,user=mythtv,pass=mythtv,rsize=65536,wsize=32768 0 0
//purple.lucidsolutions.co.nz/mp4   /mnt/mp4    cifs    ro,user=mythtv,pass=mythtv 0 0

/etc/sysconfig/desktop

DESKTOP=XFCE
PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=mythtv

[security]

[xdmcp]

[greeter]

[chooser]

[debug]

aplay information

# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
front:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
    NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
    NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
    NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
    NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
    NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
iec958:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
    NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

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