Hello from Gregg C Levine Actually, yes it was posted to the list, and I did read it. You do understand the theme behind this mail list, don't you? It concerns itself with the idea that the legacy bios on a machine can be replaced with something that will boot straight into Linux, even faster then the legacy bios, it replaced. (And that's my opinion only, Ron.) If I remember correctly there are a few SiS based boards out there, which have an alternate form of video output, which is composite video based, but I don't remember which ones. Can you repost your message, but in simpler terms? I think everyone else missed it, because of its original phrasing. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios- admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Alessio Sangalli Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:55 AM To: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: motherboard for vdr system
Hi, I've sent this mail september 14th, but I didn't see it on the mailing list.... I try to re-send it, thank you
Hi. I would like to buy a motherboard for a VDR system: http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr
This software uses DVB cards to receive digital television and transforms your PC in a powerful videorecorder - dvd player - divx mp3 etc etc etc
As you can imagine, a very fast boot would be very appreciate, making
it
possible to completely replace a standalone digital receiver.
I watched around and I found a shop selling PC-CHIPS motherboards. I need an AGP slot, and two or more PCI slots for DVB-cards, plus
ethernet
etc. I have a bit of fear the 815 is very limited in expansion,
perhaps
the 830 is better for me. Do you have any advice about motherboards? I also found a page (http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/pcchips/aka.html) where
there
are the pc-chips equivalents; nowadays I can very easily find ECS products which are the very same of pcchips 830 etc.
I've read archive mailing list and all but I still need some more informations. Will I be able to directly boot my own linux kernel,
with
IDE, XFS etc support? I need a hard-disk anyway, to record movies and load vdr software, etc.
bye and thank you! as
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