Revision as of 14:51, 12 November 2007

Cowbutt's MythTV Page

With an eye on power consumption, I went for a combined frontend/backend implementation. I tried a quick run through with a scratch machine that I was no longer using. Once I'd determined, it'd probably be up for the job, I bought components specially.

Hardware Specification

• Intel Celeron 1.7GHz CPU
• 512MB RAM (originally 256MB)
• Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra Motherboard (i845PE)
• Seagate ST3500630A PATA 500GB disc (OS, database, recordings)
• Seagate ST3300622A PATA 300GB disc (originally only disc; now music, emulator ROMs)
• LiteOn/JLMS XJ-HD165H DVD-ROM
• NEC ND-4570A DVD+/-RW
• Codegen ATX-9001 case
• 1*Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T tuner (originally 2)
• 1*Hauppauge Nova-T-500 dual DVB-T tuner with Hauppauge infra-red remote control
• 1*Pace Bt878 Analogue NICAM/FM tuner (not currently used)
• 1*D-Link quad-port NIC
• GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 128MB fanless VGA card (bought used to replace failing cheaper nVidia card)
• home-built VGA-to-RGB SCART adaptor with integrated audio in/out and composite from SCART
• 2*PADIX/Rockfire PX-205 PSX-USB Bridge with two Logic-7 Playstation dual-shock gamepads
• Ruwido/Chicony KB-9820 infra-red PS/2 keyboard/mousepad

Software Specification

• Fedora Core 8 running 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 kernel and standard video4linux drivers
• MythTV 20.2 from ATrpms
• pdnsd caching DNS server
• privoxy ad-filtering HTTP proxy
• DHCP daemon
• netfilter/iptables firewall
• nVidia 96.43.01 drivers from ATrpms
• Xmame/Xmess 0.106, fceultra 0.98.12, VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2, zsnes 1.52, dgen-sdl 1.23
• dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw firmware for Nova-T-500

OS Configuration

Partitioning

/dev/sda1    2668MiB /           ext3
/dev/sda2    2668MiB spare
/dev/sda3    2691MiB swap
/dev/sda4          - extended
/dev/sda5  410089MiB /myth/video jfs
/dev/sda6   23847MiB /tmp        ext2
/dev/sda7    9547MiB /var        ext3
/dev/sda8   19086MiB /usr        ext3
/dev/sda9    6346MiB /home       ext3

/dev/sdb1    2668MiB spare
/dev/sdb2    2668MiB spare
/dev/sdb3    2691MiB spare
/dev/sdb4          - extended
/dev/sdb5   74395MiB spare
/dev/sdb6    9547MiB spare
/dev/sdb7    1914MiB spare
/dev/sdb8   14316MiB spare
/dev/sdb9   76301MiB /myth/music     ext2
/dev/sdb10 101670MiB /myth/emulators ext2