[mythtv-users] USB IR Blaster: close but no cigar

[Ron Garrison]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:43 -0700, Douglas Peale wrote:
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>> > Do you mean you have no slots at all
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>> Yes, that's what I mean. They are all in use. Two PCI slots contain a
>> sound card and my PVR-500 card, one PCIEx16 slot contains the graphics
>> card and one PCIEx1 slot contains a firewire card. Those are all the
>> available slots and all of those devices are needed by the MythTV
>> system.
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> It looks like you could get a PCIEx1 Firewire/USB combo card.  Not sure if
> you'll end up hitting chipset issues with those too, though.
>

Another option would be to get a usb soundcard and free upa slot that
way.  I use a Xitel Pro Hi-fi link.  Don't think you can get one of
those anymore, but I'm sure there must be something.

Ron