have had my new motherboard since friday built a new mythtv combined frontend/backend m/b, 1.86G P4-M, 1G DDR2, Silverstone 10M case hauppauge PVR-350
experiences so far: gentoo installed no problems. using root on LVM2 so that was fun, but once i worked out what i was doing wrong it installed quiet smoothly. boy is the machine fast, xorg built in 37 minutes, mythtv (from svn) in 28 (according to genlop) the processor fan is very quiet. most of the time it doesn't even spin up. having fun with the remote provided with the case. the driver works but modifying it so that the arrow pad works is not done. found some code to do it but have not done the merge. written and lircrc file for myth (which works). upshot is that i'm not there yet, but know what to do and how to do it. the case mounted vfd has not shown any signs of life yet. have the driver, so should get there soon. xorg. now that was a b***h. trying to get xv and xvmc to work has taken most of my time. xv is now working - by plonking a snapshot of the server on top of my ebuild. before that i was limited to 8 meg of video ram and dri would not install. at least now i can watch tv without stuttering (albeit in silence!) sound has also been fun. alsa in the kernel finds the sound card and kmix/alsamixer/alsaconf/... all find the h/w, nothing is coming out of my speakers. seems like the m/b is rather new and the 6 mini jacks with the integrated spdif in/out is a not supported by alsa. just building cvs alsa which seems (i repeat seems) to have 6stack-digin (sounds right to me) support. we will see. testing with a small pair of speakers. when i get them to work i will try to get the optical out to work to my amp. pvr-350 worked first time. once i had xv working the picture looks quiet good. not tried to output to anything other than a 15" lcd that i have (via vga connector). dvi-d and component will have to wait until i get hardware that i can test them with. but note that the m/b has them as standard. will try s-video today (also on m/b). so first impressions are pretty favorable. assuming i can iron out all the little wrinkles, then this m/b will be a major contender for the m/b of choice for myth: fast, quiet, overflowing with features. the one downside is that it is bloody expensive (£160, ~$300) just thought i would share with you. if anyone else has the same m/b i would be interested to hear how you are getting on with it. -- simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
