Please post your Functional/Non Functional Hardware

**superm1** · October 3rd, 2007

Hi folks,
With the release of the beta, the amount of changes that can be made are likely limited to bug fixes.

In an effort to produce accurate documentation of what people will need hardware wise for setting up a box, we'd like if you can post what hardware you've got (particularly tuners) and how things work with it.

Please don't hijack the thread with trying to diagnose problems you are encountering, make a separate thread for that. Just a simple works/doesn't work followed by a short description will suffice. Hopefully a lot of the problems people encounter will be simple solutions (such as manually adding a remote configuration), but still a separate thread is much preferred to using this thread again. If you have a piece of hardware that you got to work though the help of the forums or other online source, a link to that would be great.

A sample post can look something like this:

Hardware
CPU: Intel pentium4 2.8 Ghz
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA 7600gt, 256 mb
Remote: mceusb2
HD: 60 gb hard drive
Tuners:
Hauppauge PVR-350
Silicon Dust HDHomerun

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Had to install nvidia proprietary drivers before able to use HD playback.

A blank template for your convenience

Hardware
Motherboard:
CPU:
RAM:
Video Card:
Sound Card:
HD:
Remote:
Tuners:
Country: E.g. the Netherlands:
TV provider: E.g. canal digital:
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite):
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10

Performance

**tgm4883** · October 3rd, 2007

Hardware (myrtle)
Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 3800+
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA 6100 (onboard)
Sound Card:IDK, whatever is onboard a Gigabyte GA-M61VME-S2
HD: 500 GB SATA hard drive
Remote: MCEUSB2
Tuners:
Hauppauge PVR-150
pvHDTV 5500

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Had to install nvidia proprietary drivers before able to use HD playback.

Hardware(zeus)
Setup: Slave Backend (and fileserver)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+
RAM: 768 gb ram
Video Card: Some old video card
Sound Card: IDK, don't matter on backend only
HD: 160 GB hard drive
HD2: Various Hard Drives for file storage (Files, Videos, Music, Pictures)
Remote: None
Tuners:
Motorola 6200 STB streaming over firewire

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Firewire works OK. Some channels are flaky because of they way they are broadcast (poorly) from the cable company. I haven't bothered to talk to the cable company about it hasn't become a problem for me yet.

**pdragon04** · October 4th, 2007

Hardware
CPU: 2.8Ghz Celeron
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: GeForce 5500 using S-Video out to TV
HD: 250GB (50gb ext3 base install; 200gb xfs for recordings)
HD2: 750gb (xfs; extra storage for dvd-rips, etc)
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-150

Performance
Had to boot into Safe Graphics Mode to install.
After install, everything working perfect.

**mndbndr** · October 5th, 2007

Hardware
CPU: AMD64 AM2 3800
RAM: 2 GB Crucial Balisitc
Video Card: EVGA 7600GT 512MB
HD: 3 500 GB SATA3
Tuners: Twinahn 102G, Avermedia A180 HD
Sound Card: X-Fi Elite Pro, onboard sound

Performance
Had to boot into Safe Graphics Mode to install.
Installed X-Fi beta driver after install.

**crmullins** · October 6th, 2007

Hardware
CPU: AMD64 Socket 754 Newcastle 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 5200 FX 128 MB using DVI -> HDMI cable
HDD1: 200 GB SATA (10 GB ext3 base install; remainder for future expansion)
HDD2: 200 GB SATA (200 GB xfs for recordings)
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-500
Remote: Windows MCE usbmce2

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Had to use lcd monitor for install before hooking up to my plasma tv.
Had to disable screensaver to watch anything over 10 mins long.
Remote worked from the get-go.
Easiest installation I've encountered so far and I've tried them all!

**drven1005** · October 6th, 2007

This is an Intel Mac Mini.

Hardware
CPU:Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: Intel i810
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
Remote: Stream Zap

I've ran in to a few small issues. First, by default the mac mini while connected to an hdtv via dvi is stuck at 640x480. This is true during the install. I had to alt+drag to move the menus around so I could see the forward button.

That wasn't a big deal. The main problem is with the video drivers. Mythbuntu decided to use the "intel" driver. While it did get me X on my tv and I could go through mythtv-setup and the frontend, when I tried to watch a recorded program, it looked awful. Very red, colors seemed to bleed etc..

To fix this, I had to change to the i810 driver by modifying the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually.

The other problem I found while installing on a different machine with an nvidia card is that the installer likes to use the open source "nv" driver, which does not support TV out. So to install this on my backend, which doesn't have a monitor, I had to drop to a virtual terminal and modify the xorg.conf to use vesa and then restart gdm. Same problem again where I couldn't see the forward buttons.

Other than that, so far so good.

Originally Posted by drven1005

Other than that, so far so good.

Well I spoke too soon. When you use the i810 driver, all you get is a blue screen when you try to watch HD content.

To get around this, I had to add:

Option "LinearAlloc" "16384"

to my xorg.conf file. Notes from: http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ins...ng_HD_Material

Using the i810 driver also breaks the display resolution utility.

**superm1** · October 6th, 2007

Originally Posted by drven1005

This is an Intel Mac Mini.

Hardware
CPU:Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: Intel i810
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
Remote: Stream Zap

I've ran in to a few small issues. First, by default the mac mini while connected to an hdtv via dvi is stuck at 640x480. This is true during the install. I had to alt+drag to move the menus around so I could see the forward button.

That wasn't a big deal. The main problem is with the video drivers. Mythbuntu decided to use the "intel" driver. While it did get me X on my tv and I could go through mythtv-setup and the frontend, when I tried to watch a recorded program, it looked awful. Very red, colors seemed to bleed etc..

To fix this, I had to change to the i810 driver by modifying the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually.

The other problem I found while installing on a different machine with an nvidia card is that the installer likes to use the open source "nv" driver, which does not support TV out. So to install this on my backend, which doesn't have a monitor, I had to drop to a virtual terminal and modify the xorg.conf to use vesa and then restart gdm. Same problem again where I couldn't see the forward buttons.

Other than that, so far so good.

Please start another thread regarding this issue if you can. Detail everything you've already mentioned here. (Don't want to clutter this one). I've got some points to bring up from a discussion with the xorg maintainer tonight.

**spoky99** · October 7th, 2007

Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
Hardware
Motherboard: Mini-ITX Motherboard LV-671
CPU: Pentium Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
RAM: 512 (work well also with only 256 Mb)
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
HD: now only 40 Gb
Remote: grey hauppauge and M$ mce remote via USB
Tuners: 1 hauppauge PVR150 MCE and 1 hauppauge PVR150 (i tryed also one PVR350 but.. the tuner is less sensitive than the PVR150 I don't know is the hardware is damaged

I buy it used)

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
I had some problem for the tvout, lcd (crystalfontz 634) and acpi autoboot
the tv out was only a problem of configuration (I will post the xorg.conf)
the lcd was solved (thanks to superM and maxnuv)
I'm working o the ACPI (is not true.. we are working

)

I also installed the mythbuntu into other computer... I will post the hardware list and the problem soon

**p$y** · October 7th, 2007

Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
Hardware
CPU: Pentium 4 / 2,6 Ghz
RAM: 1024 DDR
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8400GS
Sound Card: Via OnBoard / Soundblaster Live 5.1
HD: 80 GB mythbuntu installed
160 GB with a mountpoint at /var/lib/mythtv
Remote: X10 Medion Remote
Tuners: DVB-T Siemens Mobile
DVB-T MSI Megasky 580
Hauppauge DVB-S

Performance
The OnBoard sound sometimes doesnt work / Soundblaster not recognized (known Ubuntu problem)
Had to download the firmware for the MSI Megasky
the 160GB aren't recognized (Mythweb says there is only the 80GB) mybe my faul (first time set such a mount point)
Had to install in safe graphical mode (installed with tvout/s-video)
Only few functions for the remote (no rewind etc...)
(lircd.conf from http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.ph...nung_-_USB_X10)

**gareththered** · October 7th, 2007

Hardware
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz
RAM: 1Gb
Video Card: Geforce 6200
Sound Card: Soundblaster Live! 5.1
HD: 40Gb PATA & 80 Gb PATA
Remote: Hauppauge Remote ( Does NOT Work

)
Tuners: Hauppauge Nova T-500 (Dual DVB-T)

Works very well apart from the IR Remote.
Video card and Sound card detected first time, although I had to use 'asoundconf' to set my SoundBlaster Live! to be the default one instead of the onboard chip.