<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Paul.Buchanan@thomson.com">Paul.Buchanan@thomson.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Paul.Buchanan@thomson.com">Paul.Buchanan@thomson.com
</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;"><br>Elanor wrote:<br>> I'm trying to find hardware to build an HTPC which I plan on using as
<br>> a combined Myth Frontend/Backend that will live in my living room.<br>> I've been looking at motherboards and was under the impression that<br>> most onboard video chipsets *didn't* behave with linux so I've been
<br>> avoiding them. Last night, I came across this board:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186086">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186086</a><br>
><br>> I read somewhere that Myth doesn't work with PCIe video cards (for<br>> tv-out) so I've been looking for AGP + PCI motherboards. This one,<br>> however has tv-out with the onboard video.<br>>
<br>> A quick google search for "foxconn 6150 mythtv" revealed some posts<br>> from<br>> 2005 saying that the drivers aren't currently supported in linux. I<br>> also found some posts from this forum in early 2007 that say its ok to
<br><br>> use it possibly. I'm confused.<br>><br>> Is this still the case? I will be using Ubuntu Feisty and Mythtv.<br><br>I just completed a test install of KnoppMyth R5E50 and the binary Nvidia<br>drivers (9775) on a MSI K8NGM2-FID (One of MSI's 6150 boards). No
<br>problems with SD or HD recordings via DVI output.</blockquote><div><br>Bit offtopic but I have the same board and find that audio drifts out of sync with the video (this is on a Gentoo install). Also I can't get interlaced output to work (at all, in windows or linux). James
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