[mythtv-users] Hardware "Survey" (Pundit-R)

Sat Nov 20 19:47:35 UTC 2004

I have a Pundit-R with a PVR-250. To get the capture card installed 
without bending the chassis (too much) I had to insert the card into the 
lower slot on the Pundit and even then it is a bit of a thight fit. It 
works though and the chassis can close without any problems. 

I'm going to install a second card soon and I have my eyes on the PVR-350 
and I have come the conclusion that it will probably mean that I will have 
to "work" the chassis a bit (and maybe even cut a little here and there). 
I think it is ok since the modding will be hidden once you close the case. 
As to the PVR-350 being a little longer - it should be ok since the tight 
fit is height wise.

As to whether it is worth it - I think so.... The Pundit is the only case 
I found that has a reasonable size and where you (teoretically) can fit 2 
pci cards...  Most other bare-bones only have room for 1 pci.

The one thing to be aware of is that the Pundit hardware is rather new. 
This means that the network card isn't suported with a standard Fedora 
core 2 install (there is however a solution to this) and that the mobo 
uses the atiixp audio driver which cause some problems. I seem to have 
found the solution (with help from the forum) by switching to ALSA audio 
and by modifying the latency_delay of the pci cards (not as hard or 
"geeky" as it sounds). Once I verify that the setup works in the longer 
run, I'm going to do a write up of the steps.

Hope the above helped/helps.

/lekkim

"Mark L. Cukier" <mark at pemicro.com> 
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20-11-2004 20:14
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Hello to All:

I'm in the process of setting up mythtv on my current computer. I've 
allready ordered the PVR-350.

I was initially going to be reasonable and set everything up on my 
desktop to make sure it was working before I went out and splurged on a 
new dedicate system. BUT... in the process of setup, reading, etc I've 
gotten myself too excited about all the awesome features of myth (I'm 
currently an avid TiVo user/fan.. but this story has convinced me it's 
time to eBay the TiVo and move to Myth: 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=1&u=/latimests/tivowillnolongerskippastadvertisers 

) . To heck with reasonable, I'm going to splurge.

I have my eyes on the Pundit-R... I heard someone comment that the 
PVR-250 "barely" fit into their pundit system. I noticed the 350 is a 
bit longer! Does anyone here have a Pundit-R with a 350? I'm just 
looking for confirmation that it will fit before I order the case.

I'd also be interested to hear any other recomendations for a sleek, 
small case (with two PCI slots)-- or any other hardware recomendations. 
I heard this site was a good place to go for hardware setups 
http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-pvrhwdb.php .... but it doesn't seem to 
work!

Thanks in Advance,
   Mark

JTJones wrote:

>It looks like a nice board with no AGP, PCI or ISA slots, proprietary 
form
>factor and proprietary power supply connection.  As long as someone has a
>lot of time and is really good at figuring out power connections and 
wants
>to make their own case, it should work great... oh ya, and if you don't 
want
>to add any expansion cards to it the board would be fine.
>
>Jones
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