What Hardware is supported ??

[meesterblack]

A fair question that I think should be included with the SageTV OEM Linux FAQ stickied on this board...

What hardware is supported in the Linux distribution? More specifically, which video cards?

Has anyone found any linux support of the new nVidia Dual MCE tuner card?


Thanks,

meesterblack

[stanger89]

http://www.sage.tv/linuxOEMedition.html

SageTV Media Center for Linux OEM Edition Specifications
Media Playback Formats
Video - MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, VOB
Audio - MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC
Image - JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG

System requirements:
Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon or faster processor
256 MB of RAM
Internet connection
Supported network hardware (most network cards)
TV Tuner card: Hauppauge PVR150 (supports IR blaster), PVR250, PVR350 (encoder only) or PVR500 card (multiple cards supported)

Additional requirements for SageTV with media player (install mode 2):
Intel P4 or AMD Athlon XP or faster processor Supported sound card
Supported Geforce 4 MX or more recent NVIDIA graphic card

[Dekard]

If you need more information on supported hardware I suggest you take a look at Gentoo's website. Sage is built on top of Gentoo which has excellent hardware support.

[spike5884]

Originally Posted by Dekard

If you need more information on supported hardware I suggest you take a look at Gentoo's website. Sage is built on top of Gentoo which has excellent hardware support.

I have looked at Gentoo's site. Where is supported hardware located on it?

[Dekard]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...ap=2#doc_chap1 is a listing of hardware requirements. As far as supported video cards thats on the sage linux page, which says "Supported Geforce 4 MX or more recent NVIDIA graphic card"

[Dekard]

One last thing, if you want to you can download Gentoo and install it on your box. That will tell you if it is compatible with your hardware.

And the reason you aren't seeing a simple hardware compatibility list like you would for Microsoft is that Linux handles hardware completely differently. In windows you need a specific driver for each piece of hardware whereas Linux will look at how the hardware is made and attempt to use builtin drivers for each chipset used to make up the hardware. So, you have access to a much larger base of hardware. And of course, many manufactures make Linux specific drivers for their products. Just a whole different philosophy. And a reason why the Linux version of Sage is sold 'OEM'. Meaning you have to take care of the tech support. Sage's forums will help a ton.

[spike5884]

Originally Posted by Dekard

which says "Supported Geforce 4 MX or more recent NVIDIA graphic card"

Isn't that only if you do an Install Mode 2? It is not clear that if it is a requirement for Install Modes 0 and 1. If not, what is needed for them?

[Dekard]

If you are using the GUI on the server then you need the above mentioned video card. If you are not using the GUI then you do not need the video card. Thats all there is to it.

[Bob3]

I was just looking around in the forum trying to find a hardware compatibility list; I need to get a batch of video cards & came across this:

the Linux version requires Geforce 4 MX or more recent NVIDIA graphic card.

Is there an actual list someplace that has examples of model numbers? (MX4000, or FX5200 for example)

At the Gentoo site, the Hardware Requirements listed are:
CPU i486 or later
Memory 64 MB
Diskspace 1.5 GB (excluding swap space)
Swap space At least 256 MB

In a post of 23 May: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18184

There are no longer any dependencies on NVidia graphics cards. All graphics cards should function as long as they have an overlay.

So... I take it that if the video card is working with my Debian box, it'll be a shoe-in for SageTV?

[_Demo_]

There are some issues with some recent nvidia cards that have removed overlay support.

_Demo_

[Dekard]

Here's an interesting link to a complete Hardware Compatibility List for Linux. Much can be learned about your hardware compatibility from this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php