I've completed a substantial amount of work on my Freevo. This includes getting my Matrox G400 video card working (for TV output), IR receiver working (for remote control), getting NES and SNES emulators working, and setting up a joystick, which is a Playstation 2 controller with Radio Shack USB adapter. Smaller things I've done are setting up cron jobs to retrieve TV listings at night and to

My Freevo box is up! Everything that I care about works. I can view TV listings, set things to record, set favorites, the web server works so I can set things remotely, everything records great, and I even have Samba up so I can share the video files with my Windows XP laptop. I still want to get my remote control working, but other than some tweaking with the quality of the video files

As I noted in my last entry, I left my wireless USB network adapter at my parents' house. I don't need wireless in my new condo since the Freevo is right next to where the router is, so I got a normal wired LAN card. Installation with Slackware 9.1 was simple. I put the card into a PCI slot and turned on the PC. Linux instantly recognized the card and it worked fine. That's all. Didn't need a

This may be hard to believe, but I WILL finish this Freevo box. I've been taking graduate classes on top of working full time, I bought a new place AND there's a new girl in my life. This equated to ZERO Freevo (or free, for that matter) time. But the semester's over, I've moved into my new condo, and I want to get this thing up and running so that when I'm super busy again I'll at least be

I got an 80 GB Maxtor hard drive from Staples for $40 after rebate (Black Friday sale). This will be my Freevo's hard drive. It's been over a month since I last worked on the Freevo, but I'm going to make a big push to get it done before the end of the year. Might totally start from scratch with the new drive, because the 12 GB drive that's in there now is dual-booted with Windows 2000 and has

This entry will detail configuring the XFree86 settings and installing the Nvidia driver. Originally (before I found a driver) I just ran xf86config, which was located in /usr/X11R6/bin/. It generates the XF86Config file that is found in /etc/X11/. I didn't need any website or documentation. I just followed the prompts. Problem is, you need very specific information about your video card

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I've done nothing with my Freevo system since getting XMLTV to work. I'm hoping to have some free time this weekend. Freevo still needs to be configured so that the proper command line arguments are sent to mplayer. I also need a video card that has an S-video out. There was one on eBay that I wanted, but I forgot about the auction and lost. I can get that part last, though, so I have plenty

I have updated this post to reflect changes in the XMLTV installation. It seems easier this time. It's basically the same, though. You can read the XMLTV project page and download the XMLTV source files at SourceForge. The XMLTV page at the Freevo site has some useful information too. Download the XMLTV package at SourceForge and read the README file. A little more than halfway down is a

I'm at work installing XMLTV when the terminal just stops responding. Maybe the power went out, or the wireless network cut out, or the DSL is down on Verizon's end. I'm pissed. I was in the middle of something. Right now I'm repeatedly pinging until I get a response in hopes that whatever caused the failure will undo itself.