So we got a bit of snow last night... but most of it melted by this afternooon.

We got home to find a message letting us know that one of our outside spigots was leaking. For the life of me, I can't find a shutoff valve to it in the house. So we'll just have to shut off the well pump and wait until morning to call a plumber. In the meantime, the ice caused by it looked pretty cool.

Finally got my HDTV Myth box built and up and running. It's purty, and mythcommflag makes me happy. Some pictures are here.

The most difficult part was finding a 1080i modeline that work with my TV. Eventually, a stock one from the nVidia mode pool worked out the best (1920x1080_120i, using the 8776 drivers). The overscan was compensated for with the following values in the mythtv settings:

+----------------------+-----------+
| value                | data      |
+----------------------+-----------+
| GuiWidth             | 1750      |
| GuiHeight            | 976       |
| GuiOffsetX           | 90        |
| GuiOffsetY           | 34        |
| GuiSizeForTV         | 0         |
| GuiVidModeResolution | 1920x1080 |
+----------------------+-----------+

I also set it up so that DVDs are played back at 720x480, as it looks way too jaggy at 1920x1080i.

Specifications (Updated 2/7/07):

• TV: Sony KP-57WS510 57" CRT RPTV
• Case: Antec Fusion
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott
• Memory: Corsair ValueSelect VS1GBKIT400 (2x512MB DDR400)
• Motherboard: Intel BOXD865GSAL
• Video: MSI nVidia GeForce FX5200 AGP
• Disk: (2) Seagate ST3320620NS - 320GB SATA
• Sound card: Turtle Beach Riviera
• Tuner: Air2PC ATSC-PCI
• Network: Linksys WUSB54GC (using these drivers)
• IR: irblaster.info receiver
• FireWire: SYBA SD-VIA-FW1E1H
• UPS: TrippLite Omni1000LCD

Configuration:

• /etc/X11/xorg.conf
• /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
• ~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
• ~mythtv/.asoundrc