[mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

[Steve Adeff]

On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:26, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> On Sunday 20 November 2005 5:43 am, Jules Bean wrote:
> > Mike Robinson wrote:
> > >> I'm personally drooling over the Abit IC7-G. Firewire, USB 2.0, 4 PCI
> > >> slots,
> > >> an AGP slot, Gigabit, and optical 6.1 audio in-out, and quad pumped
> > >> dual channel DDR all built-in. I've seen 'em for about $120.
> > >
> > > That might be the one for me.  Please get me a drool bucket.
> >
> > I avoided the Abit AV8 because a bit of research revealed it uses
> > proprietary power management - uGuru instead of plain old ACPI - and
> > they haven't released specs. Somebody has just recently got some limited
> > linux support for it by reverse engineering, but I decided to try to
> > find a board where the manufacturers were being a little more friendly.
>
> Not to mention the fact that it's a VIA chipset. I've avoided VIA like
> the plague since my first (and last) VIA motherboard in 1999. It was an
> AOpen AX63Pro, and it was nothing but trouble until the day it died a
> horrible, premature death due to power regulator failure (taking the
> CPU with it) in 2001.

and they're firewire chips are the same, crud.

-- 
Steve