<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:43 AM, <a href="mailto:mike@grounded.net">mike@grounded.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@grounded.net">mike@grounded.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">> A new 8400 or 9500 can be got on PCI and should be fine for you.<br>
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</div>I'm looking at various things at this point and this sounds possible also, thanks.<br>
<div class="im"> <br>
> There are a lot of posts on this topic now suggesting to me there is not a<br>
> lot of searching of the list (using gossamer threads) or<br>
> suppliers going on. Much of what is being asked has been recently<br>
> answered, for example read up on jessica's recent experiences and<br>
> list help.<br>
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</div>What you might not realized is that after years of archiving by search engines, forums, blogs, text files, etc, a LOT of information become unreliable over time. As I've said many times, I keep finding tons of information but it's never clear if it is a current, working solution. I would have simply given up by now had it not been for the help from this thread because searching leads me to countless things I could have tried and would have gotten nowhere. Even the folks in this thread at at odds now and then that something works or not. I suspect more and more people will no longer trust search results because of these reasons and live responses will become much more valuable.<br>
<div class="im"> <br>
> I did look thru most of the posts and cannot<br>
> find the nodel number of the current board and it seems that it (probably)<br>
> has a good number of slots. Quite likely it will be<br>
> fine, but how could anyone tell??? (guess)<br>
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</div>No one asked so I didn't think to add that. I can post that if you'd like. It's probably a pretty old board at this point.<br>
<div class="im"> <br>
> Try a clean mythbuntu install with the 5200! If you can't get that going,<br>
> I'm not sure you're going to do any better with a new<br>
> card.<br>
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</div>That was one of the first problems I had. I downloaded three distros and only the mythdora one would install on either of the systems I've tried. Besides, I am more familiar with RHEL/CENTOS and fedora comes closest to those. I wish it would install, it would be nice to see the card working finally. Then again, for all I know, maybe the card itself has a problem.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Just use a PCI slot / card, unlikely to need to anything else for mythtv<br>
> purposes. <br>
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</div>I'll take a look as I believe I have some PCI TV out cards, just not sure they will be of any use.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>Do you want to do anything else with the<br>
> machines, it seems not. In that case PCI is perfectly adequate.<br>
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</div>Anything else, as in, using it as a PC or something? No, it'll be dedicated to myth.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> So many answers readily available to search tools.....<br>
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</div>As I've said, I have been reading, and reading, and reading and have found tons of information. In fact, most of the info I've found says that the fx5200 was/is the perfect card for myth, yet, as you've seen in this thread, haven't worked for me.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> How good will it be when you do get a picture working???<br>
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</div>Once I get a machine up, running, get a little hands on time with myth, then, I'll be happy to invest more into it. Right now, I've already spent a bunch of money, don't have a box with TV out yet so need more hands on experience in using it to know how much I'll spend.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I am not sure why your fx5200 does not work. The advice that it was an ideal card is now somewhat dated by a number of factors:<br><br>1. it is now not supported in the main nvidia driver branch, you need to use the legacy drivers, which doesn't seem to be the easiest to do on your distro,<br>
<br>2. the technology is old now. It has been supplanted by far superior cards which will do everything a fx5200 could do (accelerate mpeg2) and more (accelerate mpeg2, h264 and divx/xvid, superior deinterlacing, feed modern hdmi equipment, and more). <br>
<br>3. The growth of h264, both as a broadcast standard and a medium for ripped media, makes the mpeg2 only capabilities of the fx5200 even more redundant. <br><br>4. in short the 5200 and it's ilk certainly were the best cards at a certain point in time and for certain uses (mainly mpeg2 HD broadcasts, ie mainly in the US). <br>
<br>The problems for someone like you is that <br><br>(a) there are no vdpau agp cards; and<br><br>(b) once you get a decent card and a motherboard to fit it, you possibly won't have any analogue out options, you'll have VGA, HDMI or DVI out. Composite or component or s-video is stil available on some cards, but they are disappearing rapidly.<br>
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