<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Norm Dugas</b> <<a href="mailto:normdugas@yahoo.ca">normdugas@yahoo.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;">
Deyan Bektchiev wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 9/28/07, *<a href="mailto:mythtv@clayfish.net">mythtv@clayfish.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv@clayfish.net">mythtv@clayfish.net</a>>*<br>> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@clayfish.net">
mythtv@clayfish.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv@clayfish.net">mythtv@clayfish.net</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Begin forwarded message:<br>><br>> > From: les ( <a href="mailto:bert@pacbell.net">
bert@pacbell.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bert@pacbell.net">bert@pacbell.net</a>>)<br>> > Date Sent:<br>> > To: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <mailto:
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>> > Subject: [mythtv-users] gforce 7600gs<br>> ><br>> > hello all... am just starting to build a box.. was thinking of
<br>> using the<br>> > gforce 7600gs because my sony hdtv has hdmi in..<br>> > and any ideas for a motherboard would be nice too..<br>> ><br>> > les<br>> > _______________________________________________
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</a>><br>><br>> The 7600GS works great. I don't think you can go wrong there. I<br>> have no experience on the 6200 series. I had trouble getting a<br>> 5200 to drive a 1080p LCD TV (see below), but they work fine on a
<br>> 720p TV, a 1024x768 LCD monitor, and a S-Video and composite out<br>> to a standard definition TV in my house.<br>><br>> I have a Athlon X2 4200 on a nForce3 250 chipset motherboard<br>> (Epox) with 2GB of memory running Fedora 6 w/Atrpms and the nVidia
<br>> proprietary drivers ( 100.14.11) as a FE/BE. I was running a 5200<br>> to drive a Sony 720p 42" LCD projection TV. Playback was clear<br>> and smooth. The projection TV was a little too washed out in my
<br>> bright living, so I moved it to the bedroom and got a Westinghouse<br>> 1080p 47" LCD panel TV. The same FE/BE had problems driving the<br>> 1080p LCD. The picture was gorgeous but the playback was choppy,
<br>> even standard definition. I tried the "UseEvents" "True" option<br>> and disabling the Composite extension that had been suggested in<br>> this list, but they made no difference. CPU on one core was 65%
<br>> on HD playback. The thing that pointed me to the video card being<br>> inadequate was the big slowdown of the OpenGL menu transitions<br>> moving from 720p to 1080p. I bought the most advanced fanless
<br>> nVidia AGP card I could find, a 7600GS, and replaced the 5200.<br>> OpenGL transitions went back to normal. Playback was smooth, even<br>> in HD. CPU was still 65% on one core. The 5200 is still driving
<br>> the Sony 720p perfectly well in my bedroom FE (Sempron 3400).<br>><br>> I have had the best luck with nVidia chipset motherboards for AMD<br>> CPUs. I recently gave up fighting a VIA K8T890 motherboard (SATA
<br>> and Ethernet problems) and put it in a Windows machine where it<br>> works fine, so I am guessing there were some driver issues. I put<br>> the nVidia board from the Windows machine into the FE/BE and have
<br>> had no problems.<br>><br>> Steve<br>><br>><br>> If you are getting a motherboard with an onboard NIC, just make a note<br>> of the chipset. I bought an Asus P5K-VM board with Marvell 88E8056 NIC
<br>> chipset and there is no way this one can be made to work under Linux<br>> and I really tried hard. There are reports on the web that some<br>> revisions do work better than others, however mine was one of the bad
<br>> ones. The same bad chipset apparently is also used on some Gigabyte<br>> boards...<br>><br>> Deyan<br>><br>I've got an Asus P5LD2 Deluxe with a Marvell 88E8053 NIC onboard and it<br>works fine for me. There is an issue if you're using the sky2 driver.
<br>What happens is under times of heavy network load, the driver will just<br>give up. To recover, you have to unload and reload the module.<br>Something else you can do is use the Marvell drivers. I downloaded them<br>
from the Marvell site and installed them as a kernel patch. Recompiled<br>my kernel selecting their driver (sk98lin) and building as a module.<br>I'm running kernel 2.6.22 on Gentoo.<br><br>rodimus norm # lspci | grep Marvell
<br>04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E<br>Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19)</blockquote><div><br>The board that I had (I already returned it and replaced it with an Intel one) an earlier revision (I believe rev 12 - I did not bother saving the lspci output) of the chipset so this might have contributed to the problems.
<br><br>I did compile the sk98lin driver from Marvell and it was working better than the sky2 driver, but would still hang after 10-15 minutes and report hardware problem with the NIC.<br><br>One thing I do need is the network of my Myth box to be up since I don't have a keyboard attached in order to reload the module so the Asus board just didn't cut it. I did like the other features though so it's a pity I had to settle for Intel.
<br></div><br>Deyan<br></div>