[vdr] Re: Hardware recommendation?

[peje <peje@freesurf.ch>]

Hi Martin, I've the asus p4pe and its good, and stable. But you need a cpu 
over 2,5 ghz. The only trouble I had was the powersupply, I had to buy an 
"high-end" psu which brings enough standby power. I also can recommand you an 
good cpu-cooler, the intel-standard cpu cooler is very noisy. I first tried 
to run suse 8, but there were some troubles with acip, then I got gentoo and 
there everything (in relation to the hardware :-) ) runs fine. I don't know 
if the irda runs, if an homebrew serial receiver.
greets peje

On Friday 18 April 2003 14:14, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to buy a new mainbord and don't want to have another time
> problems with new hardware.
>
> Most important for me is, that its stable and reliable and thingst that
> should
> work (APM or ACPI, DMA, USB, IR, Sound without klicks when accessing the
> HD) just work.
>
> I don't want to have to make 5 BIOS updates to get things go. I do not want
> to spend my time to find workarounds making things work and learning
> what is not possible.
>
> Performance is not an issue, but I want the best value for my money.
>
> I would like to use my Matrox G450 video and my Siemens DVB V1.3
> with video overlay (I don't want to buy a TV).
> I only run Linux and I use the computer as workstation
> (with ipsec to the network of the company I work for) and as tv.
>
> I asked around and peoble told me, that I should go for a Intel CPU
> and a Intel Chipset. Is it true that don't have to much problems
> if you are running Intel hardware?
>
> Is VIA and AMD cheaper, because it don't work when doing more then average?
>
> Any recommandations or warnings?
>
>
>      I think of something like a Celeron 1.7 GHz
>      and a Mainbord with a i845PE chipset like ASUS P4PE.
>
>    Matrox G450 Dualhead, Siemens DVB V 1.3
>    3 IDE Harddisks, 1 CDWriter, 1 SCSI-Disk
>    Soundblaster PCI 64 (ens1371) or onboard sound
>    Intel Etherexpress 100 or onboard network
>
>    I expect onboard USB2.0.  S-ATA would be nice.
>    If there is Onboard-Irda, I expect to be able to get an IRDA-Head for
> it.
>
> (I usually by a cheap processor. When the fastest processor running in a
> Board
> is cheap, I upgrade, using the Mainboard another few years)
>
>
> Problems I had with my current hardware:
> ===============================
> At the moment I have a Epox 8kha+ Mainboard (VIA KT266A chipset).
> First APM, ACPI and USB didn't work. After 1/2 a year EPOX published a
> BIOS, so I could use my USB keyboard and mouse.
>
> I still can't reliable poweroff the PC when using ACPI. Since 2 month
> I got it to work with APM, but I still don't get nvram-wakeup to work.
>
> Since the beginning til now I get lockups when watching tv with vdr and
> tuxview using video overlay. It also happens when using xawtv or fbtv.
>
> Usually it takes some time and happens when accessing the harddrive.
> Then the harddrive led is on and nothing, except of the fans,
> is doing something.
> Afterwards I have datacorruption like /bin/uname being a device
> or /bin/login a directory (I use ext3 and 2.4.20 kernel).
> It happed with the old and new drivers. It ist only when doing video
> overlay
>
> With xawtv I had to reboot 5 times in 2 hours with timeshift
> and video-overlay.
>
> Without video overlay watching tv needs about 50 % of my Duron 800
> and the video stops for about 1/10 s when reading or writing to harddrive.
> (yes, I use DMA for the 3 harddiscsv and have onlz problems with
> videooverlay)
>
> If you like, I could tell you more.
>
> I think it may be a hardware issue, so I want to give the computer
> to my brother iwho needs a computer for running windows and
> don't doing video overlay.
>
>
> SMartin



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