9/21/2005

Genesi Box & PVR-150

Cardoe wrote this mid-afternoon:

So some might know that Genesi sent me some hardware and I’ve been trying my hardest with my college student resources to get the system up. Now everyone wonders WHY this is an issue because everyone got a full Genesi machine, so let me clear this up. All I got from Genesi was a motherboard, processor and a PVR-150. Which means I had to procure a case, RAM, PSU, HD and video card.

I got all that but now the problem is that the PVR-150 they sent me is a half-height PCI card, which means it won’t fit into a PCI slot so that means the PVR-150 is useless right now. The next problem is apparently Genesi machines require Radeon cards but all I’ve got is a ghetto Trident card that has like 1mb RAM on it. And lastly the HD I have is only 8gb. I would hand out accounts to any Gentoo dev that wants one but I can’t even get the box to boot, let alone provide people with decent HD space. It just hangs with “returning from prom_init” as soon as I pick any of the kernels to boot. I even tried “video=ofonly” .

If anyone has some suggestions, or some hardware they’d like to donate in exchange for an account or whatever reasonable thing they can conjure up, I’m game to hear them.

* Filed under: General, Linux

5 Responses to “Genesi Box & PVR-150”

  1. Doug Goldstein » Blog Archive » MythTV & IVTV Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 3:25 pm

    […] Doug Goldstein « Genesi Box & PVR-150 […]

  2. Dan Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 9:31 pm

    Doug,

  3. Dan Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 9:35 pm

    Doug,

    I was working on a MythTV Box a little back and Have since given up on it and i am really just using the box as a File server but i do have a PVR-250 just sitting here if you would like it i am sure i can send it out to you. Also since i would be sending a package i also have a plethora of HD’s sitting around that i could throw in ( I know i have a 20 and a 60). I also have a SFF Power Supply and one 256 meg stick of DDR 2100 RAM. If you can use any of this stuff send me an E-mail

    Dan

  4. Obz Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 9:37 pm

    “returning from prom_init” ah, didn’t even make it to the Prom, must’ve had a few too many at the befores.

  5. Raquel and Bill Says:
    September 23rd, 2005 at 8:02 am

    Hi! When did Genesi send this to you?! :-)

    We are Genesi. We do not remember ever doing this, but would like to support you.

    Raquel and Bill

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