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The Simple Guide to a Media PC
posted on October 1st 2007, at 22:06
by lunarg
Because of my move, I had need of a media PC system, which allowed me to watch TV, record from TV, watch DVDs, listen to music and more. Buying a pc with Windows Media Center was not an option: linux has very wonderful applications and utilities to build such a sytem.
This guide is not a real how-to, but rather the steps I took to get things running, along with descriptions and solutions to caveats and problems I encountered. Since my Media PC is still in progress of being build and configured, this guide is also a work in progress. Comments on any of the steps are, of course, very welcome.

This is a work in progress...

A PC running Gentoo, with several applications to:

Watch TV, record f  ...
 
My kernel config
last updated on November 29th 2009, at 22:24 by lunarg

The kernel configuration for 2.6.22-gentoo-r5.

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config-2.6.22-gentoo-r5.gz
Text file
10.19 KB
 
My LCDproc client config
last updated on November 29th 2009, at 22:24 by lunarg

lcdproc.conf is the client-side configuration file. Use this if you want to display various system stats (I used it before I was using MythTV stats).

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lcdproc.conf.gz
Text file
827 B
 
My LCDproc server config
last updated on November 29th 2009, at 22:24 by lunarg

LCDd.conf is the server-side configuration file. Use this file if you have a CrystalFontz 634 USB.

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LCDd.conf.gz
Text file
6.69 KB
 
My LIRc configuration file
last updated on November 29th 2009, at 22:24 by lunarg

This configuration is for LIRc, and defines the RC and IR receiver configuration. I found the config here, so thanks to whoever wrote it.

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lircd.conf.gz
Text file
961 B
 
My make.conf
last updated on November 29th 2009, at 22:24 by lunarg

The make.conf file for my system.

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make.conf.gz
Text file
8.7 KB
 
 
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