[mythtv-users] Am I ready to go?

[Julian]

Hi,

> > -ATI Radeon 32MB Video Card (motherboard also has
> 
> I am still waiting for reports of people getting
> these to work for
> HDTV even with their latest drivers.   The 9200SE
> cards will
> not do 1080i with the open source drivers.   The
> proprietary drivers
> will not do below an 8600 level card -- you don't
> say what card.  But
> still no reports of the new proprietary drivers
> working.

Well I am not looking to record HDTV yet...the card I
was talking about (or so i think based on the chip's
markings) is so-so:
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon/radeon32sdr/index.html
This LUG claims it works with XFree86:
http://morlug.org/linux_help/radeon
My card looks slightly different than the above
ati.com link, but I am pretty sure it is the same
thing.  I will run a lspci tonight to see what that
says.
If it's the right card, I'm curious if it'll work for
NTSC/ATSC with FC3. *shoulder shrug* we'll see.

> > shared memory architecture...not sure if I can
> disable
> > as of yet)
> You almost surely can.
Me too ;)

> > - ATI TV Wonder (VE?) (NOT all in wonder)
> > -80GB Maxtor HD
> 
> Kinda light on the disk space if you want to do HDTV
> some day.
> It's 8gb/hour usually.   Of course you can add more
> but in a way
> 80gb drives are a waste of time.  The sweet spot for
> drives is about
> 160gb to 200gb.   
> 
> Other than that you are wasting space, heat and
> power since the big
> drives take about the same power as the small ones.
> 
> Here in California each watt costs just over a buck
> to run 24/7/365.
> Add 15 watts -- pay $17/year for electricity, so 2
> 80gb drives for 3
> years costs $51 more than a 160gb even if the drives
> cost the same total.
> 
> (I am just guesstimating the power draw.  The
> vendors claim lower numbers
> but that's DC watts, I presume you spend more in the
> power supply and
> for cooling, which is the other issue.)

Well I plan to run this for only a month or two (and
not 24/7), after an upgrade I'll be a little more
effecient :)


> > plan to follow Jarod Wilson's HOW-TO.  I chose
> Fedora
> > since I am familiar with Red Hat 9 running Gnome,
> and
> 
> Mythtv recommends kde over gnome but I would have to
> believe you
> can get gnome to work.

Yeah, well I plan on using kde...just wanted to be
clear in case of the limitless pitfalls.  besides,
always good to learn something new.

Thanks,
Julian

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