Linux-Friendly hardware

[Mercurious]

Hi,

I'm looking to build a media center box based on Linux and MythTV. Who has done this before and what hardware do you recommend in terms of driver compatibility? I know that TV cards and NVidia graphics cards are problematic.

 

[chiskop]

Have a look here.

In general, rather go for Nvidia graphics cards and Hauppage TV cards, but check everything against the wiki above.

 

[d0b33]

Nvidia support is actually better than ATI(ati is improving), I have a 9600GT which works well with mythTV.

What I recommend is a hauppauge TV tuner, I have the pvr150 model and it works out the box. Any intel board should work well with linux, realtek onboard sound also has good support.

For a remote I use the Microsoft MCE remote, this works well too.

 

[Tinuva]

Hi,

I'm looking to build a media center box based on Linux and MythTV. Who has done this before and what hardware do you recommend in terms of driver compatibility? I know that TV cards and NVidia graphics cards are problematic.

NVidia cards work great on Linux.

My personal HTPC has the following:
- Intel Icedale DG45ID motherboard with onboard Intel GFX/sound via HDMI.
- E6550 (2.3ghz core2duo)
- Moneual 312b case which came with it's own remote

Works great with Archlinux 64bit + XBMC which uses OpenGL and 1080p movies works 100%.

I might consider adding a Nvidia gfx, but thats only if I find the right lowprofile version.

 

[milomak]

i agree with hauppage and nvidia. unfortunately for me i wanted to build a HTPC after getting a PVR (wanted the advert remover amongst other things). The PVR doesn't work with lirc