<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:05 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cromworshipper-mythtvlist@yahoo.com">cromworshipper-mythtvlist@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for the offer, Darrin<br>
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>From: Darrin <<a href="mailto:mtv@aperature.org">mtv@aperature.org</a>><br>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:22:03 PM<br>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] motherboard recommendation?<br>
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>On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM, <<a href="mailto:cromworshipper-mythtvlist@yahoo.com">cromworshipper-mythtvlist@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>I haven't yet determined how well the AMD 780 and 790 series work. Anyone with experience to share? I'm a bit distrustful of them becuase, as far as I recall, their linux/x11 drivers weren't so good.<br>
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>So maybe this one <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024</a> with a fanless graphics card. <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127386" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127386</a> ?<br>
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>Good luck. I can't make up my mind.<br>
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>It doesn't really translate since I don't run linux on it, but I have been running my XP system on a Gigabyte GA-MA790-DS5 motherboard(apologies if I messed up the model number - I'm doing this from memory and don't have access to the machine at the moment) and I've been very happy with it. Since it doesn't have embedded video, you can choose whatever video card you want. Beyond that, I can't really think of any feature on the board that wouldn't work with Linux....<br>
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>If you want, I could boot up a Knoppix cd or something similar and see what it complains about.<br>
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>--Darrin<br>
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</div></div>If knoppix works well on your motherboard, that would be helpful. I assume that your knoppix contains only the opensource GNU/linux stack, so it would not tell me though whether the closed-source drivers from AMD/ATI would actually do a good job of displaying full motion video.<br>
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Of course, if it did not work so well, that would also be good to know.<br>
<div></div></blockquote><div><br>I spent some time tonight playing with Knoppmyth and I got some strange results. I got most of the way through configuring it to run as a front end, but I couldn't contact the backend database. mythfrontend complained it couldn't ping the server.<br>
<br>So, I jumped to a shell to do some investigating and the localhost network was not configured at all. I wasn't sure if this was a problem, so I went a bit further. After some troubleshooting, I can say that the configuration for my home network was ok, but for some reason, the machine couldn't ping any other hosts. Looking at the lights on my cisco switch, I could see that it was probably putting packets on the wire, though.<br>
<br>So then I tried doing a tcpdump and sure enough, it is putting packets on the wire, but for some reason it's not getting them back. I see a lot of arp requests that repeat over and over, but no actual icmp echo requests.<br>
<br>Switching back to X left all of the colors looking goofy. Based on that, I would say that it *could* work if you had enough time to poke and prod at it, but it's probably not an out of the box type solution. If I can locate another SATA drive for experimenting, I may try again later on with xubuntu. <br>
<br>--Darrin<br><br>ps - I'm using an Athlon 64 X2 5400+ processor in this machine, which should be plenty fast enough for HD if I can just get that far along in the process... <br></div></div><br>