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Author:  syracuse [ Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:05 pm ]
Post subject:  K8NGM2-FID GF6150, Athlon +3000, Fusion 5 Gold RT, ver R5B7
MB: MIS K8NG2-FID (939)
- GeForce 6150 (vga, DVI, component, composite & S-video outs)
- coax 5.1 out
- Athlon +3000 or greater

HDTV Card: DVICO Fusion 5 Gold RT

The motherboard came with all adapters for video. The vga and DVI ports are on the rear panel. The composite, S-video and component output adapter/bracket can be placed in an empty full height PCI slot and the coax 5.1 is also mounted on it's own PCI bracket.

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There were a few problems and one minor one not resolved with this configuration:

a) It did not recognize the video card for correct XF86Config-4 configuration, I downloaded the latest driver 1.0-8756, on to a USB pen drive in a folder called nvidia:
1) ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux ... 6-pkg2.run
2) ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidi ... 1.0.tar.gz

b) It did not recognize the built-in sound card, needed latest alsa drivers, used wget to get alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5.

c) And finally didn't recognize the sensors, so mbmon will not work.

One more thing, the remote does not work. The new RT cards use a special DIN cable where the remote now plugs in (versus the USB remote on older cards). This allows the power on/off of the computer from the remote. Since this is new, there is no driver yet.

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Installed using Auto Install. After install and reboot, it didn't configure the XF86Config-4 file properly and you will end up in text mode log in prompt:

1) log in as root
2) mounted USB pen drive that contains the nvidia drivers:
a) mkdir /usbdrive
b) mount -r -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usbdrive
c) cp -rp /usbdrive/nvidia /
d) cd /nvidia
e) chmod 700 *.run
f) sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2.run
f) tar jxvf nvidia-xconfig-1.0.tar.gz
g) cd *0
h) ./configure
i) make
j) ./nvidia-xconfig
k) reboot

Go through the myth setup windows, note that for most (if not all) HDTV cards, you select "DVB" for the capture card.

In the TV playback section, I selected de-interlace linear or one frame (can't remember) with standard XvMC.

To get the sound to work (Realtek 880) for both stereo and 5.1 coax out:
a) open a term window (i.e. Alt-x),
b) become super-user (su)
c) cd /usr/src
d) wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/a ... c5.tar.bz2
e) tar jxvf alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5.tar.bz2
f) cd alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5
g) ./configure
h) make
i) make install


Once in a while the playback video will freeze, but by pressing one of the arrow keys (skip back/forward) will un-freeze it.
Author:  flensr [ Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:12 am ]
Post subject:  any progress on this?
I got it to work with the following parts:
K8NGM2 (6150 video) mobo
A64 3700
1 gig PC3200
winTV PVR250
onboard sound
onboard lan
winMCE usb IR and MS remote

Here's how:
Installed R5C7. I have a 1280x1024 native lcd, so I installed it with a video=1280x1024 option.
On bootup, it fails to run Xwindows and aborts to a login. Logged in as root.
Ran netcardconf. This was the key to getting things working without pain.
Pulled this from another thread:

get a shell and login as su or root,
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
cd to your favorite download directory,
wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linu ... 2-pkg1.run
then execute the script
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run

Reboot, and Xwindows runs fine.

Sound didn't work at all, so I used the instructions by syracuse from another thread:

To get the sound to work (Realtek 880) for both stereo and 5.1 coax out:
a) open a term window (i.e. Alt-x),
b) become super-user (su)
c) cd /usr/src
d) wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/a ... c5.tar.bz2
e) tar jxvf alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5.tar.bz2
f) cd alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5
g) ./configure
h) make
i) make install

The sound worked after following the above instructions plus a reboot.

I have a winTV PVR250 and it wouldn't detect properly the first installation, but it did somehow the second time. Likewise, channel scan wouldn't work until I ran through the card and source selection process a couple of times. It's as if selections would not activate after making them, so I had to enter and exit the entire setup section each time I made a config change.

I didn't even bother to configure the remote but it worked. I said "no" to having a serial ir blaster, but the USB IR sensor auto-detected and worked without any configuration.
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