[mythtv-users] motherboard recommendation?

[cromworshipper-mythtvlist at yahoo.com]

Thanks for the offer, Darrin

>From: Darrin <mtv at aperature.org>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:22:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] motherboard recommendation?
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>On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM, <cromworshipper-mythtvlist at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>I haven't yet determined how well the AMD 780 and 790 series work.  Anyone with experience to share?  I'm a bit distrustful of them becuase, as far as I recall, their linux/x11 drivers weren't so good.
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>So maybe this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024 with a fanless graphics card.  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127386 ?
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>Good luck.  I can't make up my mind.
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>It doesn't really translate since I don't run linux on it, but I have been running my XP system on a Gigabyte GA-MA790-DS5 motherboard(apologies if I messed up the model number - I'm doing this from memory and don't have access to the machine at the moment) and I've been very happy with it.  Since it doesn't have embedded video, you can choose whatever video card you want.  Beyond that, I can't really think of any feature on the board that wouldn't work with Linux....
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>If you want, I could boot up a Knoppix cd or something similar and see what it complains about.
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>--Darrin

If knoppix works well on your motherboard, that would be helpful.  I assume that your knoppix contains only the opensource GNU/linux stack, so it would not tell me though whether the closed-source drivers from AMD/ATI would actually do a good job of displaying full motion video.

Of course, if it did not work so well, that would also be good to know.