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R5A16 - AMD Athlon 64, Nforce3, GF FX5200, PVR-250, HD3000
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Author:  tjc [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:13 pm ]
Post subject:  R5A16 - AMD Athlon 64, Nforce3, GF FX5200, PVR-250, HD3000
Here is the new hardware:
    Antec Solution SLK1650B Black Steel ATX Mini Tower Case with 350W PS
    Epox EP-9NDA3+ Nforce3-Ultra Socket 939 MoBo
    AMD Athlon 64 3200+ "Venice" Core Socket 939 CPU
    Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu CPU Fan RTL
    Kingston DDRAM 256MX2 DDR400 C3 PC320 (KVR400X64C3AK2/512)
    Rosewill GF R5200-128D4 128MB AGP FX5200
    Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 PCI NTSC TV Tuner Card
    pcHDTV HD-3000 PCI ATSC TV Tuner Card
    NEC FD1231H-302 FDD 1.44MB OEM BLK
    NEC ND-3520A DVD+/-RW 16x BLK OEM W/O SW
    2 Seagate ST3250823A HD 250GB PATA 7200 8M
    Remote Pointer ACK-571 Mini Cordless Keyboard BLK (has a built in pointing device)
    CD/DVD Audio cable
    SVideo & dual RCA Phono Jack audio cable
    1/8" Stereo Jack to dual RCA Phono Jack adaptor
    50' Cat-5 Network cable
    APC Back-UPS ES 500 (with USB cable)
Everything works with minor tweaks so I'd recommend it as " pretty easy to get working". :wink: For display I'm using an svideo connection to my NTSC TV which is an old "Panasonic CT-27SF22T1".

Here is what I had to do after the install to get it working:
    - To get X to work after removing the CD and rebooting I had to, switch to another console using Ctl-Alt-F1, login as root, run the install-nvidia-7174-debian.sh script, set up an XF86Config-4 file with HorizSync and VertRefresh as prescribed, but add the following modelines:
    Code:
    Modeline "800x600" 40.12 800 848 968 1056 600 601 605 628 #60Hz
    Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 #60Hz
    My TV refuses to accept any of the modelines in XF86Config-4.nvidia-tvout.sample or the builtin defaults so this step is key.

    - To get the PVR-250 recognized I had to add ivtv to /etc/modules at line 42. Otherwise it seemed to get ignored and the bttv driver was loaded for the HD3000's NTSC tuner instead. :shock:

    - Enable lircd using the post install command from the instructions
    Code:
    update-rc.d lirc defaults
    however for some reason this didn't seem to work right away, even after attempts to manually start lircd. I think I had to reboot before the remote worked...

    - To stop it from waiting for keyboard input at boot time do the widely documented vga=791 to vga=normal fix.

    - Setup LVM as per the wiki to get my second drive used.

    - Run apt-get update ; apt-get install apcupsd, update /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf and /etc/default/apcupsd then configure the daemon to run from init to get UPS monitoring and control working.

    - Miscellaneous personal preference things like; installing my favorite editor, enabling webmin as per the wiki, getting any missing channel icons, changing the way mythfilldatabase is scheduled, ...
Author:  Liv2Cod [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:01 am ]
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So when are you going to "feel the pain" and get an HDTV monitor? I really want to see if your setup works with 1080i! I think you're going to have a problem with the nVidia 7xxx driver (6629 is the latest that works for me) and I wonder if the AMD64 has the suds to keep up with MPEG2 at 1080i. I hope it does 'cuz I'm no fan of Intel and I hate having to tell people not to use AMD parts when my heart and soul yearns for (more of) them.
Author:  tjc [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:49 am ]
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Don't know if the monitor will matter, but the CPU seems to keep up on playback (80-85% used), even with scaling from the HD resolutions to 800x600.

On the other hand I seem to have a reception problem with the crappy little indoor antenna I've been using to experiment with it. Part of this is probably because there is a medium height apartment tower (6-8 stories and topped with cell antennas just to add some noise) at the end of my block, and right in line with the broadcast towers for 90% of the local channels, not to mention several trees... So "line of sight" to the towers just isn't happening...

As a result I don't usually get a clean MPEG feed and the resulting glitches often crash or hang MythTV. When the reception conditions are right it actually looks pretty good...
Author:  tjc [ Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:35 pm ]
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Added a PVR-150 (Model 1045 - non-MCE) card today. Not much else to report. It worked absolutely flawlessly with R5A22. I did end up swapping slots with the PVR-250 so that it was still /dev/video0, and obviously when the system detected the new hardware it kicked me into mythtv-setup to add an entry for the new card, but other than that it was an absolute nonevent.

I can now recommend getting a second tuner to avoid to annoying conflicts. ;-)

Great work guys!!! :D
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