<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Sep 8, 2006, at 1:25 PM, James Pifer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Couple questions if you don't mind. I looked at this board on newegg and</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">it get's a couple knocks because of a couple motherboard components that</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">interfere with one of the PCI slots. Have you found any problem with</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">this?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>No, but like I said I don't have any PCI cards installed. I did have a PVR-350 in one slot at one point without problems. So I can say that one card will fit - other than that, I have no idea. </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Also, you say TV out was easy to setup. Can you elaborate a little? What</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">distro are you using? What was involved with the setup?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gentoo. I'm using stock 0.19 portage files for Myth, and the NVidia kernel drivers. With Xorg 6.8 everything worked smoothly, and svideo out just worked. With 7.0 X takes a while (30 sec?) to start up, but since I leave the system running Myth it hasn't been a problem. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Again, the backend is on a different machine. This is frontend only, so all I care about is video out (nvidia kernel drivers) and digital audio out (ALSA, snd-intel-hda). </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My current two issues are to get things working smoothly with XvMC and to get Myth to pass through AC3 audio. I've got passthrough working with mplayer and xine, so no problems there; and I was going to wait for 0.20 to look at XvMC and AC3.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My current BE is randomly crashing. I've been wanting to get something</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">with TVout, so I'm thinking of upgrading the hardware and using it as a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">FE and BE. I have a PVR250 and PVR350 so I need to be able to use both</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">PCI slots.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I can crack the system open and check whether that would be a problem. The 350 will definitely fit. Hrm...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The SATA connectors (2 out of 4) and the CMOS battery are in line with one of the two slots. There's 3" of clearance between the front of the slot and those components; I don't remember how big a 250 or 350 are. I had a PATA drive (and now diskless) so I never noticed. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Drew</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Drew Bernat</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:abernat@zathras.net">abernat@zathras.net</A></DIV><DIV>"Gentlemen, the stegosaur. 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