Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI BridgeVT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] )

AMD Athlon(tm) processor
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 1393.999
cache size : 256 KB

PVR-500 MCE
MS MCE 2K5 Keyboard/Remote

Panasonic 60" LCD monitor

Currently, this box is running debian sid and is connected to the panasonic LCD via it's VGA in. I'm mainly using it as an Freevo MP3 jukebox via the onboard sound->stereo.

The PVR-500 and the MCE stuff is on order. I understand from reading here that both VIA and ATI are problematic and I might be looking at a video card/mobo replacement. Figure it's worth a shot

Will I continue to use the VGA In on the Panasonic or will I need to use S-Video?

Should I keep my currently working XFree config handy?

It will proabably be fine. knoppmyth is very closely based on debian sid.

The via chips that always give problems are the 133/266 chips newer than that work for most people.

whatever you did to get your ati card working for debian should work on knoppmyth as well. and I would definately keep the Xfree/Xorg (whichever one you are using) config file around. then just use your vga out just like you did in debian. Just to let you know I'm not sure how current your debian sid is, but knoppmyth is still on Xfree 4.3 and has not made the move to Xorg yet which debian sid did just recently.

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Xsecrets

Well, thanks! That's promising news

This sid box hasn't been updated for a while (it's been too stable to fool with), so it's still on Xfree86.

Jeff