User:Bill
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Revision as of 01:34, 16 March 2006 by Bill (talk | contribs) (Added specific sections from my configuration files)
Bill lives in Melbourne Australia and works as a Software Engineer for a bio-medical company. At home he likes to tinker with Linux, electronics, and spends way too much time doing Medieval Stuff with the SCA.
Contents
MythTV for my brother
- Hardware
- Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
- Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
- ASUS K8V-X Motherboard
- AMD 754 Sempron 3000+ CPU
- ASUS 5200 AGP Graphics with TV-out
- Seagate HDD 8M IDE 250GB
- Antec Overture II Case
- RAM 512GB Generic
- Pioneer 109 Black DVD-WR x16
- Microsoft MCE Remote Control
- MSI Wireless54G PCI Card
- Total Cost is around AU$1000
- Partitioned with LVM so that extra disks are easy to add
- Running Debian Sarge (would use Ubuntu next time)
Specific Details from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
- Using the binary driver from NVIDIA in an attempt to utilise XvMC acceleration
Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "True" Option "RenderAccel" "True" Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "false" EndSection
- Use the Monitor refresh rates as specified in the Samsung LCD TV User Manual
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 31-60 VertRefresh 50-75 EndSection
- The Samsung LCD TV User Manual specifies the VGA resolution as 1280x?? so we use a customised Modes line.
Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
- This section makes sure that XWindows can start up even if there is no mouse or keyboard connected, which is really important for a true Set Top Box.
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowKeyboardOpenFail" "true" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" EndSection
XWindows startup script for Frontend from /home/mythtv/.xinitrc file
- Fix the Blue Line that is shown on the screen using xvattr command
- Turn off the auto screen blanking using xset
- Start the FVWM window manager, myth transcode daemon, and the frontend
xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048 /usr/bin/X11/xset s noblank /usr/bin/X11/xset s off /usr/bin/X11/xset dpms off /usr/bin/fvwm& /usr/bin/mtd -d & /usr/bin/mythfrontend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log
MythTV for myself
- Hardware
- Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
- Excel Bttv TV Capture Card (Analog)
- Homebuilt Intel Desktop PC
- Running Debian Sid as main desktop computer