any ETA on this board working 100% with knoppmyth?

on-board graphics especially..

It isn't a matter of this board working with KnoppMyth, it is a matter of it working with Linux. I'd suggest contacting Asus...

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I'm aware.. just curious since it seems like Myth users are up on the latest drivers. I don't know the release cycles of Linux drivers generally speaking.

I want this board too. However I would wait a while longer before buying it, read this thread for progress of linux support: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57791

i actually OWN it! ive been running XP+beyondTV (not too bad actually). my plan was eventually to switch back to myth/linux, though.

i did read that thread, and the conclusion on the thread looks like:



which is fine with me. is knoppmyth using a recent enough kernel?

I'd like to add my name to the list. Anyone know if MSI K8NGM2-FID or Asus A8N-VM work in myth or knopp or even linux properly yet. Both are relatively new NForce430 + GeForce6150 gfx motherboards. Being an all in 1 solution it would seem a lot easier to get a solid version, the only variance being the tuner card and remote.

Maybe someone in the UK could configure a knoppmyth to work with 1 or 2 haup nova-pci 90005 freeview cards. That'd take care of the remote as well. Then it would only require a user to buy this mobo + this tv card which together is < £100 in the UK and run a preconfig'd auto installer. This would probably have a 99% install success rate, thereby increasing the popularity. Such a box would work with the freeview available in much of europe.

As a windows coder I have little experience on linux, though did guess my way through to a sort of working box, using knoppmyth on some old hardware (1100 athlon). I have a friend who is total hardcore, even rolling his own linux but he ain't really interested, dammit! Anyone?

I just picked one of these up myself this weekend, along with a swanky cube mini-atx case. I am ditching the $35 gigabyte ULi 1689 board and $150 geforce 6600 AGP card (I am returning this one to the store for a refund) for this set up as it will fit a lot nicer into by get up.

From the thread on nvnews.net listed above, the best I can ascertain is that sound currently only works in stereo using ALSA 1.0.10+ with the patch linked (the SPDIF does apparently work, so I wonder if AC3 passthrough would work as this is all I would care about anyhow?), video works with 8.x.x.x drivers, though XvMC is broken for this chipset (seemed to be broken on the 6200 AGP card I returned to best buy as well) and it is a driver problem that is being investigated by NVIDIA, the LAN works with proprietary drivers (forcedeth .47+?), the chipset will work by disabling ACPI, and SATA works besides NCQ, which should be integrated in the future as NVIDIA released their specs for it. Firewire works (that is good news for me), and everything else should work. It seems a 2.6.15+ kernel is required to get most everything working without patching individual modules.

What I have done with the board so far - tried to load winXP on a partition of a 300GB drive, forgot that my legal copy of it is pre-SP1 so it doesn't support 48 bit LBA, so I'm going to give up on games for the time being. I also booted it with Mepis 3.3.1 (seemed to work fine with VESA, no sound, and no on board NIC - it wouldn't boot if the motherboard has plug and play OS enabled though), I was in the process of backing up old drives to DVD, but then I thought I should just buy another large drive to make things easier.

I downloaded MEPIS 3.4-3 rc2 today...I am going to give this a spin as it may be new enough to work with everything. If this works, I will probably load Knoppmyth onto the drive, use MEPIS to grab the latest kernel, ALSA, and nvidia drivers and put them on the drive, patch everything up to date, and see if I can make magic happen. I'll update as I get stuff working, and put a write up in the Wiki.

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-rich

KnoppMyth HDPVR WIP
(A 64 3200+ venice, asus a8n-vm csm NF430/GF6150, 1GB RAM, 560 GB/3 HD's, DVD +-RW, DCT 6200/firewire/Aver TVHD MCE A180/WinTV BT878 tuners, small black micro atx cube, big sound, 33" SVGA presentation monitor)

Have ordered one today delivery friday...

Just an update...I don't have knoppmyth running yet on it. I booted with the latest Mepis CD (3.4.2 pr3 I think) and the networking ran perfectly, the sound was detected, and there was a mixer for it, but I couldn't get anything to come out. The vid. driver they use on the live CD is the NV driver which doesn't work with this chip as of yet. It picked up the firewire as well. I don't plan on installing MEPIS, but if I could use the same Kernel, maybe update ALSA to 1.0.11, and use the 8.xxx nvidia drivers, I don't see why this wouldn't work wonderfully for KnoppMyth (of course, without XvMC for the time being).

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-rich

KnoppMyth HDPVR WIP
(A 64 3200+ venice, asus a8n-vm csm NF430/GF6150, 1GB RAM, 560 GB/3 HD's, DVD +-RW, DCT 6200/firewire/Aver TVHD MCE A180/WinTV BT878 tuners, small black micro atx cube, big sound, 33" SVGA presentation monitor)

I'm having a strange problem with mine :S I did an auto install of r5a22. Obviously nothing works straight away. I burned 2.6.16-rc1 to a CD, copied it to my new machine, unpacked it etc, copied the previous .config then compiled as normal (make menuconfig, make, make modules_install, make install) edited+ran lilo, rebooted.

Upon reboot a funny thing happens, /proc isn't mounted This causes loads of things to fail during startup. I can happily mount it manually, then load all the modules and stuff, but if I reboot I need to do it all over again! Now even stranger, if I reboot and load the old kernel /proc still doesn't get mounted!! I have checked /etc/fstab and its still listed there. I have been googling away about "/proc not mounted" for ages with no solution. I'm sure theres something really simple I've missed, can someone point me in the right direction!

Hardware spec:
Asus a8n-vm csm
Athlon 64 3200
512mb ram
250gb hdd

Ok I'm in the process of building a new MythTV box from scratch. I'm
based in Auckland and will only be working with Terrestrial TV.

I put a posting on the NZ MythTV mailing list, and i'm copying some of that information here as I plan on using knoppmyth.

Core Hardware
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Motherboard - Asus A8N-VM CSM
CPU - Athlon 64 3200+ socket 939 Venice Core.
RAM - 512Mb DDR
Video - On-board Nforce 6150
TV-Out - Optional composite cable for on-board
Audio - On-board with optional SPDIF out cable
Case - nMedia HTPC100 M-ATX Home Theatre
Network - On-board Marvel Gig-E

Capture
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Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE - PCI
LifeView Fly Video 3000 - SAA7134 based - PCI
Freecom DVB-T USB Stick

Storage
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13Gb Base OS HD
200Gb Seagate 7200 RPM Media HD.

Software
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Knoppmyth R5A30.1
+ Nvidia graphics driver 8178 (or latest)
+ Nvidia nforce driver 0310 (or latest)
+ any tweaks needed for the DVB-T tuner and PVR 150 cards

Sounds like you don't have the correct initrd when booting for your new kernel.

I'm going to try a clean R5A30.1 build and then a 2.6.15 updated kernel.

One thing to note is I had a HD with an R5A22 build and nvidia driver support that I used for testing on my old athlon based desktop. With the new Asus board it manages to boot and start X. Don't know how stable it is, but I was surprised to get X running.

Steve

Regarding this issue, I ran into the same thing...but...lilo wouldn't boot on my box with two hard drives on this asus board, so I installed grub from the mepis CD (look for a write up in a minute on the whole process). Proc isn't mounted on the old or new (2.6.16-rc1) kernel after building and installing the new kernel. Very weird...

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-rich

KnoppMyth HDPVR WIP
(A 64 3200+ venice, asus a8n-vm csm NF430/GF6150, 1GB RAM, 560 GB/3 HD's, DVD +-RW, DCT 6200/firewire/Aver TVHD MCE A180/WinTV BT878 tuners, small black micro atx cube, big sound, 33" SVGA presentation monitor)