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I'm looking at purchasing the "GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 HDMI Micro ATX Intel" Motherboard for running XBMC on. I would hope to use the HDMI to connect this through my reciever for video and audio.
Any thoughts on why this wouldn't be a good board to run XBMC with Ubuntu? I only have experience with XBMC on ATI hardware to date so this may or may not be an issue.
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He WILL almost certainly have to upgrade the ALSA and unless he runs on Hardy he will also have to upgrade the NVIDIA drivers too as last I looked the drivers for NVIDIA in the repo's didn't support HDMI audio. HDMI audio reauires both up to date ALSA and NVIDIA drivers together...
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mr_raider: Are you getting full audio (both digital and analog) to the receiver through hdmi? I would like to get a linux compatable mobo that will output everything through hdmi.
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2009-02-16, 05:43
(This post was last modified: 2009-02-16, 05:44 by FaberfoX.)
mr_raider, I'm about to build a few boxes with that board, may I ask what cpu have you paired it with? I plan to use the cheapest athlon x2 I can find, and wait for VDPAU to mature to offload the processing then, have you tried that branch?
Did you have any issues with the board worth mentioning?