[mythtv-users] The perfect MythTV Motherboard at last

[Jonathan Lin]

what about this guy here?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813137061

it's intel 915 chipset and has component output for HD.  I was able to 
get a cheap P-M 1.5GHz for $50 (one of those deals on techbargains.com).

Anyone has experience with that chipset or maybe even board?


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Jonathan Lin
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Quoting Kirby Bakken <kirby at magnaspeed.net>:

> Paul Bender wrote:
>
>> 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.
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> I don't have this particular MB, but I have two others with Nforce4 on
> them...  I'm currently running with the Biostar TForce6100-939.   The
> Nvidia video driver for this MB works fine with XvMc, but you have to go
> 'back to the 7176 driver for GL Vsync to work.  Nvidia is reportedly
> aware of the bug and has it fixed in an internal (to them) driver that
> should be released 'soon'.  I've got Myth working well on this board
> with a Fusion5 Gold card and an HD5000 card.  I'm running Gentoo
> 2.6.14-r5 kernel with the 'b2c2' dvb source from the 2.6.15 kernel
> package (the 2.6.15 kernel has some issues with bad page handling).
> There were initially problems (last November/December) with getting Sata
> to work, but those are also handled in the 2.6.14-r5 kernel.  My TV is a
> Panasonic Plasma with VGA input, so I don't have any component/DVI
> issues....
>
> The 2nd Nforce4 MB was a Gigabyte Ga-K8N51GMF-9 Socket 939.  It worked
> fine except for sound...  The 'default' ALSA sound setup was for 6
> channel sound, and it didn't have a 'Master' slider.... Like other
> posters on this forum, the ALSA .asound setup was too complicated, so I
> gave up on this board for a Myth frontend...  I'll probably set this
> board up as a backend in the near future.*
>
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