The beginning

This being my first blog post I thought I’d start with some good news. After about 6 months delay I finally got my MythTV system up and running. I had bought the system sometime ago from ebay uk and it was described as fully working as usual. The specs of the system were:

• Epia M10000 motherboard
• 40GB harddrive
• Hoojum Case
• Hauppauge PVR-350 (bought later)

I spent a long time initially trying to get the sound working of the onboard sound device and eventually gave up so the box sat in the corner gathering dust. Then for somehow quite recently I discovered (can’t remember how that revelation occured) that a jumper was missing from the motherboard which meant that it was expecting to send the standard sound output to an external socket in the case somewhere. I assume that the person who sold me the board had some external sound thing going on and didn’t replace the jumper when he removed it.

After getting the sound working and finishing up my OU courses and exams I set to work getting the MythTV setup finished. I decided to go with Debian Etch as the base and will detail some of the finer details in my next post.