Shiny single MythTV box to sit under the TV, mostly easy, a few tiny edits and compiles and a couple of remaining small issues. I've only been using MythTV and KnoppMyth for about 1 month, but Linux for many years:
# Location: Western Australia (Perth)
# Video type: HDTV + SDTV (DVB-T)
# Type of system: combined front- and back-end
# Noise level: I can barely hear it from 5 feet away
# CASE: Thermaltake Mozart SX HTPC with Media LAB http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Chas ... vc7001.asp
# PSU: Thermaltake 430W (supplied with case)
# MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5B-E http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3 ... odelmenu=1
# CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.80GHz
# RAM: 2 x 512MB Kingston 800MHz DDR2
# CPU HEATSINK: Zalman CNPS8000 (running on slowest setting) http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/vie ... 3&code=009
# NORTHBRIDGE HEATSINK: ASUS onboard fanless
# CD/DVD-RW: Pioneer DL DVD PATA
# HDD: WD 400GB SATA
# GRAPHICS CARD: Gibabyte 7300GT 256MB Fanless http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA ... uctID=2282
# SOUNDCARD: Onboard Intel ICH8 (ADI1988)
# TUNER CARD: DViCO Fusion HDTV http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/eng/Products/DVBTPlus.aspx
# REMOTE CONTROL AND VFD/LCD: Media LAB (SoundGraph iMON PAD)
PCI
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a1)
02:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
05:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
05:01.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a1)
02:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
05:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
05:01.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
USB
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Bus 003 Device 002: ID 15c2:ffdc SoundGraph Inc. iMON PAD Remote Controller
The case is quite nice, it claims you can fit 2 x PCI and 1 x PCI-E card on the riser, but in reality you can only fit one of each, so this is a little limiting. I will have to look at USB devices for future expansion. Picture of TV card and graphics card installed showing clearance: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5808/allriserssideclearancedd2.jpg and the box running with the VFD working: http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/821/dsc01778zy2.jpg
The machine is DAMN quick, as you'd expect! Using R5E50, installed cleanly on the SATA disk. After first reboot, X would not load, and left a non-flashing cursor in the top left of the screen, easily solved: http://wiki.knoppmyth.net/index.php?page=BlackScreenAfterInstall No network! Installed Attansic L1 drivers. Could not get specific new driver for 2.6.18 so found an old (1.0.41.0) kernel version non-specific driver here: http://atl1.sourceforge.net/ ... obtained and built the kernel sources as per this thread: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight= I specifically used option #2 from here: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 2567#82567 then follow the directions in the atl1 driver source and it worked as described. The problem then this combo and version of driver results in the network card being limited at about 60-70 kbytes. Enough to get simple stuff done, but a major problem if you want to run a remote frontend. (EDIT use this page and read the notice about turning off TSO: http://www.hogchain.net/attansic/attansic.html - network all good!) I use an IceTV subscription and the script they supply to setup the channels and obtain my TV guides: http://www.icetv.com.au/ Audio appears to work, but it is very quiet and pumping everything up with alsamixer makes little difference. The volume controls within Myth have no effect. All the sound options are missing from the MythTV config screens also but sound is audible while watching TV and is also recorded and works the same on playback. (EDIT re-ran alsaconf, sound options then appears in frontend general setup. Changed the "Master Controls" option to "Master". Volume in frontend no controls the "Front" channel of the audio. The TV card audio lead is plugged in to the CD jack on the motherboard, however my alsamixer only has Headphone and Front enabled and all works fine) Remote and VFD are working perfectly now, need a little tweak. The lirc_imon module needs loading, but it does not load when placed in /etc/modules so I made a small init.d script to do it instead, literally (lazy I know):/etc/init.d/imon
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo -e "Configuring iMon remote and VFD hardware ... \c"
modprobe lirc_imon
echo "done."
echo -e "Configuring iMon remote and VFD hardware ... \c"
modprobe lirc_imon
echo "done."
I then had to change the rc.d orders a little so that the lirc module was loaded first, then the lirc load script, then the LCDd script. After "update-rc.d -f remove lirc" and the same with LCDd, I then added them back in after my script for example: "update-rc.d lirc start 22 2 3 4 5 ." such that I now have this order:
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 9 12:27 S21imon.sh -> ../init.d/imon.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 9 12:27 S22lirc -> ../init.d/lirc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 9 12:27 S23LCDd -> ../init.d/LCD
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 9 12:27 S22lirc -> ../init.d/lirc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 9 12:27 S23LCDd -> ../init.d/LCD
Now, when the box boots up, the IR/VFD module loads, lirc loads up, then LCDd loads and displays its server status on the VFD. Shortly after, X loads up and mythfrontend takes over control of the VFD. If the VFD setup is not as above before mythfrontend loads, mythlcdserver will start and hang around stopping anything else from working, so it needs to be killed or the box rebooted once the VFD and LCDd init stuff is all working as planned.
When you shutdown the box, it will leave the lcdproc goodbye message on the screen, sometimes you don't want this, so I modified the LCDd script, under the "stop)" section, I added the following after the start-stop-daemon line:
Code:
sleep 1
echo -e " \c" > /dev/lcd0
echo -e " \c" > /dev/lcd0
The remote was configured in /etc/lircd/hardware.conf with DEVICE="/dev/lirc0" and MODULES="" (no module specified).
http://venky.ws/projects/imon/ has the lircd.conf file that works and my lircrc file I forget where I got it from, so you can find it on my server here: http://slowest.net/lircrc
I have not patched lirc to get the mousepad working on the remote as yet as I don't really need it, and there is a lot of talk of it being troublesome, so I might try this later.
Thanks to all who have made KnoppMyth and MythTV what it is! I hope I can help someone out with a similar config at some point
