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ea
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:42 am |
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Joined: Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:08 pm
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Here is my HW:
The Shuttle SK41G XPC mini pc system
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6 GHz) CPU
512 MB of DDR 266 memory
Asus V9180 GeForce 4 MX 440 64 MB video card
PVR 150 MCE ( I didn't want another remote )
Sony Wega 42" LCD rear projection TV
I wanted to replace my VCR with the shuttle PC. There are 3 video sources currently. Cable + Sat dish and an additional port for my camera.
I might have paid less with a DVR or a VCR, but there wasn't any fun buying something and plugging into my system. I had to suffer a bit.
Initially, I had too much trouble with R16, and gave up after a few trials. But it gave me good exercise to set up my nvidia based graphic card, and made me search for a good modeline for my TV via its DVI port. Sony doesn't recommend using this DVI port with a PC, but anyway, the forum at avforums were great. I believe mine is a GIII (generation3) and I am using a 960x540 resolution at my final setting. In windows, this TV could do better than that using nvidia drivers, but I haven't got a better resolution in linux.
When I auto-upgraded the R26 over R22, it couldn't run. All I got was black screen and locked status. I opted to reinstall everything last night.
Here is what I did:
R26 installed
reboot gdm failed. I was using both s-video and dvi outputs out of Nvidia
both showing the same thing. I noticed that install-nvidia stuff was attempted in the installation, but I was getting error (not finding libpcidata.a, or getting an empty file for this) in /var/log/Xfree*.0.log
I had to redo this step. installnvidia7174 I believe. And I copied my former XF86Config-4 with settings for DVI port of my TV.
It worked like a charm. I was able to set my PVR150, as if it is a PVR250 in mythtv-setup. Got channels, created a new one for my dish output.
It is pretty cool right now. The ivtv drivers make installation painless for PVR150. As the price of this card is really low, I expect many potential users are going to getting this.
As a homework, I need to clean the fuzziness of my tuner and set them for high-quality. Also have to learn how to use a keyboard too.
Thanks for all the participants in this forum and knoppMyth developers. This project is truly a significant achievement.
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mcdrama
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:20 am |
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Joined: Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:50 pm
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glad to see more success with the VIA chipset of these boxes.
_________________ * v2. NZXT Duet / ECS G33T-M2 / Intel C2D E5200 / 2GB RAM / 1TB HD / Nvidia 7200GS / PVR-250 / SiliconDust HDHomeRun * v1. Shuttle SK41G - AMD 1.4GHz / 768MB RAM / 300GB HD / PVR-250 / Nvidia 5200 * Samsung LN52A650
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granduke
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:23 pm |
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Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:16 pm
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ea and mcdrama,
Are your SK41Gs still running good?
I'm putting together a setup quite like ea's except I'll be using a FX5200.
I was concerned about the via chipset but after reading about mcdrama's fix I thought I'd take my chances.
When all the parts are delivered, I'll let you know of my results.
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mcdrama
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:42 pm |
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Joined: Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:50 pm
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yes it is still running fine, no reboots or lock ups. IIRC I am running R5A26.
I recorded the the first two 2 hour episodes of 24 and started watching each one 30 minutes after each started and it kept on recording.
Make sure you update the BIOS though , I think that is the key to work around this bug.
_________________ * v2. NZXT Duet / ECS G33T-M2 / Intel C2D E5200 / 2GB RAM / 1TB HD / Nvidia 7200GS / PVR-250 / SiliconDust HDHomeRun * v1. Shuttle SK41G - AMD 1.4GHz / 768MB RAM / 300GB HD / PVR-250 / Nvidia 5200 * Samsung LN52A650
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