I’ve finally got my minimyth build environment for the PXE files (boot kernel and cramfs ramdisk) working to the point where MythTV will come up. The build process is fairly clean – you can build different components individually then rebuild the “pkg” (kernel and cramfs). That makes working on updates a lot easier.

The build system is not online yet but I hope to have a web page for it under XEUS next week sometime. I’m currently calling it “mkmm” for lack of a better name.

Note that “mkminimyth” was an earlier version that tried to do the build under a debootstrap environment but that just got too complex to deal with dependencies. It’s just easier to copy over the bits you need from your build system.

Now if I can get my MythTV server (backend) working again. For some reason everytime I try to watch TV MythTV puts my Xv session into funky color mode. I have to exit X to fix it. If I watch video captured directly from the WinTV PVR 250 card with MPlayer the video is fine. But that same video is mucked up *after* I try using MythTV. Sometime just aint right – a reinstall is probably due. Hopefully the 0.15.1 RPMs are not replaced with 0.16 yet since I hear 0.16 is kind of broken (or not working optimally).