Now that i'm a member of ALUG i could do with a bit of advice.Firstly i'm trying to build a media centre pc via Linux and wondered if there was any pitfalls i should steer clear of as far as tv card etc are concerned, and secondly what's the best game to get on Linux and why.
Robert
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:35 +0000, Robert wrote:
Now that i'm a member of ALUG i could do with a bit of advice.Firstly i'm trying to build a media centre pc via Linux and wondered if there was any pitfalls i should steer clear of as far as tv card etc are concerned, and secondly what's the best game to get on Linux and why.
Avoid mini itx boards. Or at least hardware which is a little exotic...
I tried to build a PVR using a SP13000 mini-itx motherboard. I'm fairly sure that machine was cursed. The newer mini-itx boards have newer graphical chipsets, and the drivers aren't all that good yet. Apart from that, I had good success with a Haupagge WinTV PVR 250 card until I broke it.
Eventually, I just gave up, sold all the stuff off on eBay, and brought a Bush PVR from Tesco for under £100 (the full system cost a lot more). It's not as good as a decent system running MythTV, but it does the job and there is nothing I can fiddle with to break it...
Game wise. I play UT2004 a fair bit. I like that because it has a 64-bit version which really takes advantage of my AMD64 processor, which in turn makes the frame rates pretty good. I also play Day Of Defeat: Source, a WWII game based on the Half Life 2 engine, I can also play CounterStrike and Half Life 2. Cedega is the preffered option to get that working, tho I have heard it works in Wine with a little effort.
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:12:19PM +0000, Richard Brooklyn wrote:
Avoid mini itx boards. Or at least hardware which is a little exotic...
I tried to build a PVR using a SP13000 mini-itx motherboard. I'm fairly sure that machine was cursed. The newer mini-itx boards have newer graphical chipsets, and the drivers aren't all that good yet.
Which drivers were you using? The OpenChrome project (http://www.openchrome.org/) seem to claim to support the CN400 used on the SP13000 and I've had my eye on one of these for a while, though ended up with a different solution due to the length of time it took for them to actually start shipping.
J.
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:39 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
Which drivers were you using? The OpenChrome project (http://www.openchrome.org/) seem to claim to support the CN400 used on the SP13000 and I've had my eye on one of these for a while, though ended up with a different solution due to the length of time it took for them to actually start shipping.
I was using unichrome snapshots. But then went to X.org snapshots, which actually worked. Now 7.0 is out, it should be a tad easier. However I always had problems with the hardware accelration, xine would see the drive, MythTV wouldn't etc.
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