ATI in general has very poor Linux support. You will pay either way.<br><br>Sick with ATI, and at best you will probably pay with your time. You may never get it to work right. It may be fine...but unless someone here knows specifics about your card, then it's a crap shoot.
<br><br>Go with NVidia and your wallet will be $50-60 lighter, but you will have a card that has pretty good Linux driver support and is well supported with MythTV. IIRC (I don't own one) - the GeForce 5200 boards are a great value for the money. You will most likely get it working with much less time investment.
<br><br>-Pete<br><a href="http://www.mythpvr.com">http://www.mythpvr.com</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lord Darkhelmet</b> <<a href="mailto:lord_darkhelmet@accesscomm.ca">
lord_darkhelmet@accesscomm.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">for right now I'm just looking for basic PVR duties - time shift and
<br>record tv plus play music off the network and play dvds. I have a<br>single tuner capture card (hauppauge 150) but might add a second one<br>down the road if this turns out well. The TV is a Hitachi 51GWX20B with<br>
DVI input.<br><br>Are ATI cards a pain to get working or just do not "look" as good as<br>nvidia ? Thanks.<br><br>Dean.<br><br>Steven Adeff wrote:<br>> On 10/14/06, <a href="mailto:lord_darkhelmet@accesscomm.ca">
lord_darkhelmet@accesscomm.ca</a><br>> <<a href="mailto:lord_darkhelmet@accesscomm.ca">lord_darkhelmet@accesscomm.ca</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Hi,<br>>><br>>> I have a couple options for hardware to run myth and would like some of the
<br>>> gurus to show me the way. I'm mainly concerned with ease of driver install and<br>>> video quality.<br>>><br>>> Choices are:<br>>><br>>> machine 1:<br>>> socket 754 sempron 2800+
<br>>> either a foxconn 761GXK8MC-RS SIS based board or a asus nf3 based board. Both<br>>> have the same onboard realtek alc653 5.1 audio<br>>> ati 9800 pro agp<br>>> 512mb ram<br>>> 120gb seagate pata drive
<br>>> nec 16x dvdrw<br>>><br>>> machine 2:<br>>> amd 3500+ socket 939<br>>> foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS w/onboard alc850 sound<br>>> asus 6200 pci-x video with dvi out<br>>> 512mb ram
<br>>> 120gb seagate pata drive<br>>> nec 16x dvdrw<br>>><br>>> I started out with a different hardware config on fedora core 5 and had driver<br>>> issues so I'm starting from scratch.<br>>>
<br>><br>> don't bother with the ATI card stick with nvidia.<br>> what are your intentions with Myth?<br>><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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