I just bought a “new” desktop – I was thinking of doing an insane AMD Phenom II x4 940 (quad-core 3.0GHz) box – but I happened to find a used machine from $WORK; a Dell Precision 470 workstation, dual Xeon Nocona 2.8GHz processors, 4GB RAM (takes up to 16GB). So, I need a DVD of my usual desktop distro (OpenSuSE) for x64. Being that I’m at work (Rutgers Unviersity), I figured the quickest thing would be to find an Internet2 mirror, as Rutgers has 400Gbps peering on NJedgeNet.
Unfortunately, the OpenSuSE Mirror List doesn’t mention which sites have I2 peering. Luckily, the first logical one I tried – the Harvard mirror – was showing an I2/MAGIPE route via traceroute.
If anyone else needs an I2 mirror of OpenSuSE, http://mirrors.med.harvard.edu/opensuse/ seems to do it. My desktop was getting a sustained +/- 160 Mbps transfer rate, and I got the entire 4.3GB DVD image in under 2-1/2 minutes.
Uncategorized internet2, opensuse
Well, despite what’s been said elsewhere, it IS possible! It’s a bit error-ridden at first, but here is the procedure that I used to compile and install the PVR-150 patched LIRC 0.8.3-CVS.
First, Download the tarball mentioned in the Version 3 blog post at Marks Braindump. You can pretty much follow his instructions on the installation in the blog post, with some changes that are specific to getting it to compile on OpenSuSE 11.
- First, remove all traces of the OpenSuSE LIRC from you system. Uninstall the RPMS and everything else that goes with them. Then unload all of the kernel modules, especially lirc_i2c (if you have it loaded).
- In your kernel source directory, run
make oldconfig && make prepare. - In your kernel source directory, run
make prepare scripts which, among other things, compiles the required genksyms scurript. - I was getting a compile error like "WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/`uname -r`/Module.symvers is missing". Find out which kernel you're running (
uname -r). In yout kernel source directory, copy your Module.symvers file from /usr/src/linux-obj. I was running i386 architecture with the "default" kernel, so mine was located at /usr/src/linux-obj/i386/debug/Module.symvers. Copy that into /usr/src/linux. - In the lirc (patched) directory, run
setup.sh as instructed. DO NOT tell it to run configure - just save settings and exit. - Edit the generated
configure.sh file, adding a --with-kerneldir=/usr/src/KERNELDIR, replacing KERNELDIR with the actual path to your kernel soruce (i.e. /usr/src/`uname -r`). make. If no errors, make install.- I decided to reboot at this point, and when I did, everything worked perfectly.
Also, I found that I needed to explicitly specify --device=/dev/lirc0 when starting LIRC, as well as not specifying a driver. I just took the /etc/init.d/lirc from the official OpenSuSE 11.0 package, commented out line 108 in makeargs() that adds the -H $LIRC_DRIVER to the args, and added LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0" to the top after the INIT info.
Unfortunately, figuring out this process took me a long time. I've reconstructed these instructions from various post-it notes, the whiteboard next to my desk, and some bash history files and terminal dumps. If this doesn't seem to work for you, please drop an email to jason AT jason antman DOT com, with as much information as you have, and I'll figure it out and update the instructions.
Now, finally, an up-to-date system AND MythTV.
Tech HowTos hauppauge, linux, lirc, mythtv, opensuse, pvr-150, suse
