[mythtv-users] Need a PCI Express x1 serial adapter

[Adam Stylinski]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:19:12PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 13:00:09 Adam Stylinski wrote:
> 
> > I know that every Asus board I've ever used at least has those pin headers
> > to do the job.  I'm doing the same with a homebrew LIRC serial receiver, it
> > does the job just fine.
> 
> Frankly I was surprised to not find the header. This is an Acer machine with 
> an AMD chipset and an HDMI output. I got it REALLY cheap the last day of the 
> local Circuit City's existence ($50 including a 17" LCD monitor. The 4GB of 
> RAM alone was worth more than that), so I don't mind having to buy a card.
> 
> I'm not looking forward to dealing with ATI video drivers, I've always used 
> nVidia, but what the heck.
> 
> -- 
> beww
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To be frank in my experience the nvidia drivers are now more trouble post 100.14.11.  The broken AGP support bothered me, and I still experience general weirdness now that I've setup everything on a PCI-Ex based system.  My fan blares at full blast even if the driver is loaded, until X finally starts.  One of my HD videos randomly stops when using VDPAU.  The hardware based deinterlacer support doesn't exist for mplayer yet (so annoying for 1080i content). OpenGL support is sub-par, I have to do fog emulation for mupen64plus (fog effects cause awful flicker and artifacts).  NVIDIA will ignore their AGP customers on their nvnews.net forums, won't give xorg any of the specs for their cards for HOPE of any decent open driver by the Xorg developers.  

I also get random playback stutters, but that may be network related (I'm streaming from an NFS over gigabit, so I'd hope not).  Latency could be an issue causing this, it's certainly not bandwidth.  iperf can give me estimates as high as 960mbps.  Could be I/O related but doubtful (I'm streaming this from a ZFS share). 
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