I notice there are a couple of people (Jason James, Cedar McKay, mojo (Joe)
et al) out there using this board (and probably more using the nForce
chipset).
I just bought one of these and an XP2000+ to work with my already owned
Pinnacle PCTV. In general it works fine and quite stable except for a few
annoyances. First was GRUB...easy fix (lilo), haven't tried USB, but then:
1) I can't seem to get the nForce sound running full duplex. I am running
ALSA and using the example modules.conf from the ALSA page. I keep getting
errors like unable to open /dev/dsp. fuser shows no processes with it open
in general. It's as if it is opened for output and then MythTV tries to open
it for input. In the interim I have added a cheapo Yamaha YMF724 (also with
ALSA) as /dev/dsp1 and it works OK, although I'd like to get that PCI slot
back. Ideas? From the sounds of things Cedar has it working OK... Any tricks
to getting it working?
I'm getting nasty sound glitches on channel changes too although I'm
currently blaming them on the PCTV
2) If I try to use the onboard video (GF2 MX like) with the current (as of
about last week) Nvidia binaries, I can't even get xawtv to work. Running it
generally causes an instant reboot/reset of the board. MythTV is equally
unsuccessful although it doesn't cause a reboot. Plugging in a GF4 MX 440 in
the AGP and disabling the on board video and everything works about as good
as you could expect.
Anyone have similar problems? I'm running a brand new install of Redhat 8.0
(stock 2.4.18 kernel) and am using twm as my window manager for it's
lightweightness... Using twm generally gets around the problems of KDE
taking over the sound device etc. I am also using the nforce drivers nvnet
(but not nvaudio since ALSA)
I see mention of a "TVOUT card" for the Asus A7N266-VM and the BIOS allows
you to set up the default video output format. Has anyone investigated
further to see if these things actually exist? If so, I could get away
without an extra video card.
I'm nearly there....
TIA for any advice you guys might have.
Christian
et al) out there using this board (and probably more using the nForce
chipset).
I just bought one of these and an XP2000+ to work with my already owned
Pinnacle PCTV. In general it works fine and quite stable except for a few
annoyances. First was GRUB...easy fix (lilo), haven't tried USB, but then:
1) I can't seem to get the nForce sound running full duplex. I am running
ALSA and using the example modules.conf from the ALSA page. I keep getting
errors like unable to open /dev/dsp. fuser shows no processes with it open
in general. It's as if it is opened for output and then MythTV tries to open
it for input. In the interim I have added a cheapo Yamaha YMF724 (also with
ALSA) as /dev/dsp1 and it works OK, although I'd like to get that PCI slot
back. Ideas? From the sounds of things Cedar has it working OK... Any tricks
to getting it working?
I'm getting nasty sound glitches on channel changes too although I'm
currently blaming them on the PCTV
2) If I try to use the onboard video (GF2 MX like) with the current (as of
about last week) Nvidia binaries, I can't even get xawtv to work. Running it
generally causes an instant reboot/reset of the board. MythTV is equally
unsuccessful although it doesn't cause a reboot. Plugging in a GF4 MX 440 in
the AGP and disabling the on board video and everything works about as good
as you could expect.
Anyone have similar problems? I'm running a brand new install of Redhat 8.0
(stock 2.4.18 kernel) and am using twm as my window manager for it's
lightweightness... Using twm generally gets around the problems of KDE
taking over the sound device etc. I am also using the nforce drivers nvnet
(but not nvaudio since ALSA)
I see mention of a "TVOUT card" for the Asus A7N266-VM and the BIOS allows
you to set up the default video output format. Has anyone investigated
further to see if these things actually exist? If so, I could get away
without an extra video card.
I'm nearly there....
TIA for any advice you guys might have.
Christian