[mythtvnz] Building a new box using an ASUS A8N-VM CSM board

[Tim, Donna & Erin Gibson]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:20, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 1/20/06, criggie@criggie.dyndns.org <criggie@criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > > LifeView Fly Video 3000 - SAA7134 based - PCI
> >
> > Got one - didn't have a lot of luck making it work with my mythbackend.
> > So I bought a 150 instead.  That could have been that my backend was
> > underpowered (a problem you won't have!)
>
> I've got one too, had no problems getting it working. I've also got a
> tuner-less video capture card for Sky and with my current capture
> settings (576x576 mpeg4 + mp3) I can just record a show on each
> simultaneously. My backend has a 2800+/2GHz AMD Sempron (it's an
> overclocked 2400+/1.66GHz part). So Steve should indeed have no
> problem in terms of CPU power.
>
> Steve
>
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Good choice of gear... I went the Intel way with a CeleronD 2.8gHz that I can 
throtle back to 350hMz to save power heat :-)

I use Gentoo as my base OS on this my main machine and my Mythtv box, only 
problem I had was with the nVidia driver and xid errors, check the nvnews 
forum for this, had to use a stock kernel and no preempt for it to work ok in 
the end.

Only thing's I have left to do with my box is the remote (Logitech) and sort 
out the side case fan of my Silverstone LC11, because it's hard up against 
teh case it's too noisy for me.

Best of luck...

-- 
Regards
Tim, Donna & Erin Gibson