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Author: | tjc [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:13 pm ] |
Post subject: | R5A16 - AMD Athlon 64, Nforce3, GF FX5200, PVR-250, HD3000 |
Here is the new hardware:
Epox EP-9NDA3+ Nforce3-Ultra Socket 939 MoBo AMD Athlon 64 3200+ "Venice" Core Socket 939 CPU Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu CPU Fan RTL Kingston DDRAM 256MX2 DDR400 C3 PC320 (KVR400X64C3AK2/512) Rosewill GF R5200-128D4 128MB AGP FX5200 Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 PCI NTSC TV Tuner Card pcHDTV HD-3000 PCI ATSC TV Tuner Card NEC FD1231H-302 FDD 1.44MB OEM BLK NEC ND-3520A DVD+/-RW 16x BLK OEM W/O SW 2 Seagate ST3250823A HD 250GB PATA 7200 8M Remote Pointer ACK-571 Mini Cordless Keyboard BLK (has a built in pointing device) CD/DVD Audio cable SVideo & dual RCA Phono Jack audio cable 1/8" Stereo Jack to dual RCA Phono Jack adaptor 50' Cat-5 Network cable APC Back-UPS ES 500 (with USB cable) Here is what I had to do after the install to get it working:
Code: Modeline "800x600" 40.12 800 848 968 1056 600 601 605 628 #60Hz My TV refuses to accept any of the modelines in XF86Config-4.nvidia-tvout.sample or the builtin defaults so this step is key.Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 #60Hz - To get the PVR-250 recognized I had to add ivtv to /etc/modules at line 42. Otherwise it seemed to get ignored and the bttv driver was loaded for the HD3000's NTSC tuner instead. - Enable lircd using the post install command from the instructions Code: update-rc.d lirc defaults however for some reason this didn't seem to work right away, even after attempts to manually start lircd. I think I had to reboot before the remote worked...- To stop it from waiting for keyboard input at boot time do the widely documented vga=791 to vga=normal fix. - Setup LVM as per the wiki to get my second drive used. - Run apt-get update ; apt-get install apcupsd, update /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf and /etc/default/apcupsd then configure the daemon to run from init to get UPS monitoring and control working. - Miscellaneous personal preference things like; installing my favorite editor, enabling webmin as per the wiki, getting any missing channel icons, changing the way mythfilldatabase is scheduled, ... |
Author: | Liv2Cod [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:01 am ] |
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So when are you going to "feel the pain" and get an HDTV monitor? I really want to see if your setup works with 1080i! I think you're going to have a problem with the nVidia 7xxx driver (6629 is the latest that works for me) and I wonder if the AMD64 has the suds to keep up with MPEG2 at 1080i. I hope it does 'cuz I'm no fan of Intel and I hate having to tell people not to use AMD parts when my heart and soul yearns for (more of) them. |
Author: | tjc [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:49 am ] |
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Don't know if the monitor will matter, but the CPU seems to keep up on playback (80-85% used), even with scaling from the HD resolutions to 800x600. On the other hand I seem to have a reception problem with the crappy little indoor antenna I've been using to experiment with it. Part of this is probably because there is a medium height apartment tower (6-8 stories and topped with cell antennas just to add some noise) at the end of my block, and right in line with the broadcast towers for 90% of the local channels, not to mention several trees... So "line of sight" to the towers just isn't happening... As a result I don't usually get a clean MPEG feed and the resulting glitches often crash or hang MythTV. When the reception conditions are right it actually looks pretty good... |
Author: | tjc [ Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:35 pm ] |
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Added a PVR-150 (Model 1045 - non-MCE) card today. Not much else to report. It worked absolutely flawlessly with R5A22. I did end up swapping slots with the PVR-250 so that it was still /dev/video0, and obviously when the system detected the new hardware it kicked me into mythtv-setup to add an entry for the new card, but other than that it was an absolute nonevent. I can now recommend getting a second tuner to avoid to annoying conflicts. Great work guys!!! |
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