On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 19:33 +0000, Rachel Willmer wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Dell Dimension 500MHZ to run mythtv. I've got a > PVR-350 TV card, and the OS is Ubuntu Linux. > > > The Dell has an onboard i810 graphics card, which according to xorg.org > should use XVideo out of the box. It doesn't, as shown by xvinfo. > > If anyone has a quick solution to getting xvideo working with this > config, I'd love to hear it. > > But I'm more interested in getting the box working, so was thinking > about buying another graphics card. > > Any suggestions about what I should get? > > All thought welcome > Rachel > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Can't help with the XVideo issue. I have used the i810 Dell systems and hated them. For a replacement card you need to verify that you have or don't have an AGP slot on the Dell. Many of the Optiplex machines did not have AGP. As for what card any nVidia GeForce 4 or higher will do, MX400, MX4000, fx5200, ..., with the appropriate bus of course. A new FX5200 with 128mb ram will run about 70 bucks US. Paul
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