I'm doing just that on exactly the same box you were looking at. No problem.
I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200 SEW graphics card, because it has no fan and decent tv out, but you have to use either FBdev graphics driver or ATI's unofficial fglrx. The fglrx driver gives aboutthe clearest X I've seen on a 50Hz TV. If you want to go for a Hauppauge prd-350 there are ways of getting X out on that, and you don't use the CPU for mpeg-2 encoding, could be worth the extra investment. As far as disk is concerned, I use a seagate barracuda and am pleased with the low sound levels there. Tests on other machines suggest that Reiser4 sounds smoother and quieter than other filesystems. I'd be interested if others have any poits of view on this. The box isn't as quiet as I hoped. I took off the northbridge fan and replaced it with a zalman passive cooler, but the main fan is still very audible if there's not much going on in the room, also the northbrtidge now reaches an alarming 54 degrees I'm considering trying to find a quiet fan to give the northbridfge a little dedicated airflow. I don't know how much longer I'm going to hang around on this list, so if you want to contact me direct, feel free on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers >-- Original Message -- >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:21:16 -0500 >From: Bill Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] using my tv as a monitor at all times? >Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> > > >Martin wrote: >Greetings, > >I've been looking, real hard, at putting together my own MythTV system and I have a question I >can't find an answer to. I am looking at buying a > >http://www.overclock.co.uk/customer/product.php?productid=18268 > >because it's small, fast, and quiet. Besides a tv-tuner card it also needs a graphics card, >preferably with tv-out. What I'd really like to be able to do is: Insert the wire from my tv into >the tv-out of the graphics card and use my tv as a moni >or during setup, and for any other reason. >This way I wouldn't ever need to put a monitor on it to see what is wrong with it or spend time >going back and forth between tv and monitor during setup. I would just be able to get a console on >my tv, a >d their should of course also be a boot sequence visible on the screen. Of course I also >want a graphics card with good tv-out. Does anyone know if this is possible, or am I just >dreaming? > >Regards, >Martin > >_______________________________ >__________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >____________________________________ >__________ >mythtv-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > As long as your distro does not use X for the graphical install, or you forgo the grapical install, you should be ok w >th an nVidia card with tv-out. I've used several different cards and the all worked fine on tv-out until you try to start X, that's when things get tricky (well, you need the right settings at least). -Bill _________________________________ >_____________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Registered Linux user
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