6/6/2006

New Myth Box

Cardoe wrote this in the wee hours:

Well this coming month I’m giving a presentation of MythTV at the local LUG, GatorLUG, meeting on June 21st. Since I haven’t had a working MythTV box for a few months and I’m the Gentoo MythTV maintainer, I figured now is a good time to build a new box. The issue has been I use a PPC box for my MythTV box and PPC doesn’t support TV out. I’ve recently purchased a new TV and it has PC and DVI inputs so it’s no longer an issue. However ivtv driver versions greater then 0.4.2 no longer work on PPC for me an several others. Hans doesn’t have an idea why but I have a feeling that it’s an endian-ness issue but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the code.

So far I’ve bought an Ahanix MCE601B case, eVGA Nvidia 7600GS passive cooled video card, an AMD Athlon64 3000+ AM2 Socket processor, and a MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard. Now I just need a SATA HD and some RAM and I’ll be all set. I will be putting my PVR-500 and PVR-250 into this box.

* Filed under: General, Linux, MythTV

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