[mythtv] RedHat 8.0 and hardware questions.

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On 16 Dec, Richard Trice wrote:
> Current config.
> 
> Asus mb w/ 700mhz Athlon
> 256mb ram
> 13 gb / partition
> 2 west. dig 80gb drives, software raided (hdparam -t /dev/md0 gives
> 60MB/s writes)
> ATI tv wonder ve tuner
> Nvidia gefore 4 mx 64mb
> SB live!
> 
> Downloaded and installed version 0.7.  xawtv works fine (except the
> colors are a little washed out and the channels are off by 1).  I think
> I
> read a post about insmoding tuner type to 2.   I will try that.

That should do it.

> My main question is, every time I try to watch live tv, it would crash
> on me and tell me I didn't have Xv support  

Are you running the nVidia supplied drivers? You need those. The XF86
nv driver doesn't do Xv.


nor the OSDdefault theme.
> I checked the themes dir and indeed it only had blue.   So is it because
> 
> my processor isn't fast enough to encode/decode (as per the docs?) or
> am I missing something else?
> 
> Also today, I was planning on running down and grabbing a new
> mb/processor/mem
> combo, and I wanted suggestions.  Got about $300 to spend.  I would like
> 
> this machine to be as quiet as possible.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Trice
> Systems Analyst
> Alabama Research and Education Network
> (256) 971-7431
> tricer@asc.edu
> 
> 
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