[mythtv-users] The perfect MythTV Motherboard at last

[Paul Bender]

mike choy wrote:
> I just spotted this Asus Motherboard
> 
> Micro ATX
> Dual Core support for fast rips and transcodes
> Integrated DVI  and VGA and Nividia graphics
> Integrated SPDIF OUT
> Integrated Firewire
> Gigabit ethernet
> 
> Heres te review
> http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2370
> 
> Anyone got any experience with this yet.

I have this motherboard with a AMD Athlon64 3200 on it. I got it because 
a friend and I felt that it would make a great MythTV frontend.

The short summary is that it has great promise, but it is not perfect yet.

The Motherboard's DSDT is buggy, so you have to do some work to get it 
to boot with ACPI, but it can be done. The ALSA audio driver needs to be 
patched to get it to work without making horrible noises. The NVidia 
driver has a bug that prevents XvMC from working on this board so there 
is now hardware accelarated MPEG2 decoding yet. You can find out more 
about the problems at 
<http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57791>.

Having said all that, I have a version of MiniMyth <http://linpvr.org> 
running on it and I am using it as a diskless MythTV frontend right now.