On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:12:27PM +0100, Lea Gris wrote: > > Running Mandrake Linux on 4 computers at home : > 1 for my 3 sons > 1 for my husband > 1 for me > 1 as home fileserver, gateway, CD burner server, Proxy server. > 1 more mandrake box at my working days flat > Running Mandrake as my dual screen workstation at work as well.
This is good! I am in a similar position here with 5 Mandrake boxes at home too. No job, so no Mandrake box at my job. :-( > Next plan is for a Digital TV engine and recorder based on a Hauppauge > Nexus DVB Sat reciever Must be nice to be able to get DVB Satellite. Make sure you hold on to that that right. Here in the US/Canada, it's all proprietary. > and linux pvr (maybe with Mandrake of its good > for it). Mandrake is not really that well suited for a PVR. I dunno if any of the other distros are any better, but Mandrake isn't. The shortcoming of Mandrake with regard to PVR/set-top box type stuff are: - no DirectFB, and/or GTK+DirectFB packages - kernel lacks pre-emptable kernel patch for low latency - kernel lacks patch for VSYNC interrupt notification from Matrox framebuffer driver - kernel lacks DirectFB multi-application core kernel module - kernel bttv module is still based on 0.7 series and not 0.8 series (although if you are using DVB, this will not so much be an issue in your specific case) I have been patching the Mandrake kernel for all of the above on my PVR except the pre-emptable kernel patch (because I found that that does not apply at all cleanly to the Mandrake kernel). I am in fact about to abandon the Mandrake kernel for my PVR and start patching the Linus vanilla kernel with the above features. Good luck with your PVR project. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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