Re: [ivtv-devel] Perfect motherboard query

[David G. <da...@th...>]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>If I was buying a mothboard from scratch specifically to support the
>IVTV driver and a collection of PVR-250 cards (as many as I can
>reasonably run; minimum of 4, but 5 or 6 isn't unreasonable), what
>should I buy?
>
You may have trouble finding that many PCI slots.  I have found 6 PCI 
slot MSI and FIC motherboards, but I haven't tried them.  At least the 6 
PCI slot versions anyway.  I have had great success with both MSI and 
FIC.  Not sure if their integrated audio is supported or not.

>  I gather there are DMA, bus-mastering, and other issues
>with these cards, and I figure the driver-devel community are the
>people best equipped to answer.
>
>Because I am.  My sister is a mad taper, and buying VCR's has gotten
>old.
>
>Is anyone running more than 2 250/350's in one chassis?
>  
>
I am running 3 PVR-250 in one box along with a pcHDTV card.  It is an 
Asus P4G8X with P4 2.4G/533FSB CPU and 512M RAM (5 PCI slots).  I also 
have an Abit IT7-Max2 that works great, but it has only 4 PCI slots.  
The integrated audio on both motherboards is supported (but of course, 
they are Intel chipsets though :-( ).

>I was looking at the A7V8X-X, but it appears to have unsupported
>on-board audio...  I'm fond of ASUS, but open to other suggestions.
>
I have purchased many Asus motherboards in the past and haven't had any 
problems with them, but after reading this article I am now thinking 
twice about it.  
http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html.  I am also 
a very fond of Abit motherboards so I will probably stick with them for 
now.

>I have a *strong* preference for AthlonXP over ntel, and want to stay
>32-bit (and parallel-ATA) for the nonce.
>  
>
The MSI KT4AV-L looks like a nice board with 6 PCI, Realtek ALC650 
6-channel audio and about $55.00 where I normally buy stuff.

>We have one 250 in hand (non-MCE, OEM) but nothing else is ordered yet.
>
>All suggestions (with details, por favor) cheerfully accepted.
>  
>
Hope this helps,
David