Hi all,
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos), it's now time to choose a DVB-S/2 card.
I consider the TT 3200 and with a slight preference the Haupauge HVR-4000 (drivers in the kernel since 2.6.28 seems a bit more comfortable). The only point I'm unsure about is the Haupauge WinTV CI-module USB. Does anyone know about its linux compatibility?
Or do you recommend the TT 3200 if I need an CI module?
And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times? (Yes I know [1], but that didn't help me with choosing one optimized for short boot times.) LinVDR seemed to be such, but the last version is now 4 years old. I personally have experiences with Gentoo and Debian, so that would be my choices if no one has a better option worth trying.
Greetings -Sascha-
[1]http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/%C3%9Cbersicht_Software#Distributionen
Sascha Vogt a écrit :
And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times? (Yes I know [1], but that didn't help me with choosing one optimized for short boot times.) LinVDR seemed to be such, but the last version is now 4 years old. I personally have experiences with Gentoo and Debian, so that would be my choices if no one has a better option worth trying.
I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on an NFS share, which gives a really light bootable system), then installed whatever needed, but nothing fancy (ie. X with a tiny WM, but no login manager, ACPI, no dbus, etc...). Boot time is not spectacular, but OK. Next step, as others did, will be to suspend to RAM instead of shuting down, which means boot time will become irrelevant... Install size is 724MB, with full docs (à la Debian), stock kernel, modules and initrd, some VDR plugins, etc. (including 187MB of useless cached packages). That's work, but at least everything came in binary...
Hi,
Nicolas Huillard schrieb:
Sascha Vogt a écrit :
And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on an NFS share, which gives a really light bootable system), then installed whatever needed, but nothing fancy (ie. X with a tiny WM, but no login manager, ACPI, no dbus, etc...). Boot time is not spectacular, but OK. [...]
Can you provide any figures? 30 seconds, 50 seconds, 90 seconds? To get at least a rough idea.
Greetings -Sascha-
PS: Suspend to Ram can be a good alternative, that's true. Hopefully that'll be working on that ASUS board...
Sascha Vogt a écrit :
Nicolas Huillard schrieb:
Sascha Vogt a écrit :
And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on an NFS share, which gives a really light bootable system), then installed whatever needed, but nothing fancy (ie. X with a tiny WM, but no login manager, ACPI, no dbus, etc...). Boot time is not spectacular, but OK. [...]
Can you provide any figures? 30 seconds, 50 seconds, 90 seconds? To get at least a rough idea.
30s on an Athlon XP 1.8GHz roughly 45s on a C3 600MHz
Simply recompiling the kernel, removing unneeded modules and initrd, could reduce by 5-10s...
On 08.01.2009 17:14, Sascha Vogt wrote:
And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
Can you provide any figures? 30 seconds, 50 seconds, 90 seconds? To get at least a rough idea.
PS: Suspend to Ram can be a good alternative, that's true. Hopefully that'll be working on that ASUS board...
I'm using Hibernate (aka. suspend to disk), and I'm quite satisfied with it. My boot times for a slow C3-600 system:
- Power-on to GRUB boot: 12s - GRUB to OS up-and-running including DVB drivers: 15s - VDR up-and-running: 15s
In total, the system needs about 45s to be up, with just 15s being OS related (debian/etch-a-half). The system is also not optimized for being very light-weighted, its mostly a normal debian without X. Booting the stock debian kernel takes roughly 60s longer, a selfmade kernel without initrd would also be noticeably faster.
Cheers,
Udo
Hi Lauri,
Lauri Tischler schrieb:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Greetings -Sascha-
Sascha Vogt wrote:
Hi Lauri,
Lauri Tischler schrieb:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Does this board have at least headers for a parallel printer port? I can't find a hi-res picture of it, and docs do not mention it, so I fear I couldn't use my graphical VFD if I where to decide on this board in favour of some 8200-based still in ATX form factor.
Hi Lucian,
Lucian Muresan wrote:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
Hi Lauri,
Lauri Tischler wrote:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Does this board have at least headers for a parallel printer port? I can't find a hi-res picture of it, and docs do not mention it, so I fear I couldn't use my graphical VFD if I where to decide on this board in favour of some 8200-based still in ATX form factor.
Nope, sorry, I can't find any parallel ports on the port. There is an internal COM Port available. I guess you'd need an USB<->parallel converter.
Greetings -Sascha-
Sascha Vogt schrieb:
Nope, sorry, I can't find any parallel ports on the port. There is an internal COM Port available. I guess you'd need an USB<->parallel converter.
Too much ports in there ;). I meant: I can't find any parallel ports on the board.
Greetings -Sascha-
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Sascha Vogt FunkyFish@gmx.net wrote:
Hi Lucian,
Lucian Muresan wrote:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
Hi Lauri,
Lauri Tischler wrote:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Does this board have at least headers for a parallel printer port? I can't find a hi-res picture of it, and docs do not mention it, so I fear I couldn't use my graphical VFD if I where to decide on this board in favour of some 8200-based still in ATX form factor.
Nope, sorry, I can't find any parallel ports on the port. There is an internal COM Port available. I guess you'd need an USB<->parallel converter.
Greetings -Sascha-
Or a COM < - > LPT converter and forget the USB drivers.
Sascha Vogt wrote:
Hi Lauri,
Lauri Tischler schrieb:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Any idea if its possible to get also audio via HDMI-connection ?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:17:11 +0200 Lauri Tischler lwgt@iki.fi wrote:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
Hi Lauri,
Lauri Tischler schrieb:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Any idea if its possible to get also audio via HDMI-connection ?
NVidia HDMI audio is supported in Linux but you need at least kernel 2.6.28 or drivers from ALSA 1.0.18 and you need to configure things to use it instead of the default (asoundrc, pulse config because it ignores asoundrc, xine/vdr-sxfe because it ignores asoundrc and pulse config). It works for me with an M3N78-VM.
Hi, Lauri Tischler schrieb:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
Lauri Tischler schrieb:
Sascha Vogt wrote:
as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos)
Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
Any idea if its possible to get also audio via HDMI-connection ?
I have not yet looked into that, as soon, as I get something, I'll post it on this list.
Greetings -Sascha-
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