[mythtvnz] IDE-SATA adaptor?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:37:02 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>On 28/07/2012 8:01 p.m., Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> My entire motherboard, CPU and 8 Gibytes of RAM was only about $550,
>>> so I think it was a very cost effective upgrade from my old
>>> motherboard's 4 SATA ports.  The new CPU and extra RAM means that
>>> commercial skip processing happens in real time on up to four
>>> recordings at once, which really cuts down on the disk accesses as the
>>> data is all still in RAM cache.  So I would recommend seriously
>>> considering a motherboard upgrade as the best option.
>>
>>That's super cool Stephen, what is the new CPU and did you add a video
>>card or use the the M/bds video chip (assuming you use the backend as a
>>frontend)?
>
> It is a backend/frontend box.  The old motherboard was an Asus
> M2NPV-VM, which did have a bulitin Nvidia chip, but it was the old
> 6000 series which does not do VDPAU.  So I had long since installed an
> Asus Bravo 220 (Nvidia GT220 silent) card, and I just moved that to
> the new motherboard, which has no builtin video.
>
> The new motherboard is an Asus M5A97 EVO ($202.22):
>

Thanks this is a backend only and an onboard video card of any
description would do the job. I see that MB doesn't have one but it's
easy enough to buy a cheap one.

>   http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=397936
>
> http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A97_EVO/#specifications
>
> I got mine for $191.91, so it seems to have gone up a bit.
>
> The CPU is a quad core AMD FX-4100 Black Edition 3.6 GHz ($182.25):
>
>   http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=400101
>
> and the 8 Gibytes of RAM ($130.62) is:
>
>   http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=402694
>
> which is down a little on the $136.64 I paid.  This RAM is on the
> official compatibility list for the motherboard, which seems to be
> important now.  In buying from Ascent, I could not find only 4 Gibytes
> of compatible RAM, so I decided to get 8 Gibytes and I have not
> regretted that.
>
> The current total price would be $521.10 for the upgrade.
>
>
> HOWEVER: I have a problem with this combination of hardware.  It works
> fine with my current production software, Mythbuntu 11.04 and MythTV
> 0.24+fixes.  But when I try to use Mythbuntu 12.04 with any of the
> current Nvidia binary drivers, I just get a blank screen (including
> TTYs) and the error messages suggest that the Nvidia driver is
> crashing.  I am pretty sure I had Mythbuntu 12.04 and VDPAU working
> with the GT220 card on the old motherboard, but the software versions
> from the install CD and the now current versions just do not work. I
> have tried lots of different Nvidia versions and the result is the
> same with all of them.  The Nouveau driver works fine, but of course
> does not do VDPAU.  I get this at the end of Xorg.0.log:
>
>   [    35.399] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): WAIT: (E, 0, 0x857d)
>
> and this in kern.log:
>
>   Jul 24 15:50:24 mypvr kernel: [   20.326861] AMD-Vi: Event logged
> [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=01:00.0 domain=0x0016 address=0x00000002125a2000
> flags=0x0010]
>   Jul 24 15:50:24 mypvr kernel: [   20.326867] AMD-Vi: Event logged
> [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=01:00.0 domain=0x0016 address=0x00000002125a2040
> flags=0x0010]
>
> This is probably not a total disaster, as the CPU looks to be able to
> do the video output without VDPAU if necessary.  But I would certainly
> prefer to have VDPAU working, and I would have to do extensive testing
> to ensure it would work without VDPAU.  And the electricity bill would
> show a bit of an increase without VDPAU too.  So I am holding off
> upgrading to 0.25 until I can solve this problem.
>
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