On 8/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Mousseau</b> <<a href="mailto:matt@amsvans.com">matt@amsvans.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I'm looking to put
together the system to end all systems. I believe I have spec'd out all the
hardware, but I was hoping to get some feedback on everyone's experiences with
each individual aspect of the system. First I will post the proposed specs, then
the desired software / hardware behavior, then questions that I'm concerned with
at the moment. If anyone thinks of something I may have missed, please let me
know!</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Also, as I build
this I will be writing a guide. I am very much new to linux, so it should be
helpful to the "n00bs" in the community.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span><strong>System:</strong></span></font></div>
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<div><font><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Mobo: TYAN
S2885ANRF (</font><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813151120" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813151120
</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">)</font></span></font></div>
<div><font><span><font size="2"><font face="Arial">Proc: AMD Opteron 246 SledgeHammer 400MHz FSB (</font><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103412" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font face="Arial">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103412</font></a><font face="Arial">)</font></font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span><font face="Arial">Raid:
HighPoint ROCKETRAID2220 PCI-X SATA Controller (</font><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16816115022" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Arial">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16816115022
</font></a><font face="Arial">)</font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Ram: Thinking
around 1gb / chip</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>HD's: 4x400gb
SATA For my "archive" ; 2x250gb SATA "working"; 1x160gb PATA "music" ; 1x80gb
PATA "boot"</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Firewire:
Basic 4 Port controller (for hookup to my HDTV recievers)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Nic's:
Thinking the onboards should work, will add new ones if
necessary</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Audio: Need a
recomendation here, onboard is Coax SPDIF, was looking for an optical solution
(longer run so i'm concerned about noise)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Graphics: Recommendations are good here too, I
want DVI to HDMI for my projector, as well as a second monitor running (for
diagnostics, etc...)</span></font></div></blockquote><div><br>
<br>
Hi Matt-<br>
As a noob who has the same mobo I'd love to see what you come up
with. I haven't been able to get mine up and running. Of
course, the bulk of my problems have been trying to get a PVR-250
running (which you don't have spec'd). The rest of the mobo stuff
works great.<br>
<br>
I had the same plan as you (although not quite as extensive in the
automation dept). I bought the same mobo and CPUs. I also
bought a couple PVR-250's, only to find out that this mobo only has 1
slot compatible with the cards. I've been trying on and off since
April to get this working. My wife and and I had our first child
in March, so their hasn't been much free time for me to work on
this. I tried the 64-bit OS route and found that I didn't gain
much except a headache (be careful of some of the software repository
issues regarding the 64-bit distros), so I reverted to the 32-bit
versions. I've tried FC3 (jarod's guide), knoppmyth, gentoo, and
suse 9.3. (And I'm about to try the new version of
MythDora). I couldn't get any of them to work with either of my
PVR-250s. It's been a couple months since I've last
attempted an install, and I'm sure much has improved in the 64-bit area
since then so good luck. I'm not a linux guru, which definitely
accounts for some of the delay in getting this to work. My guess
is that you will have better luck. <br>
</div><br>
Greg<br></div><br>