Posted by Wes Newell on 08/27/06 01:01

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:08:25 -0400, Freewheeling wrote:

> Well, Knoppix didn't work. It gets to the end of the installation, and
> just starts intermittently "flashing" some stuff on the screen. I let
> it go for close to an hour, and it just kept flashing. Tried both
> version 4 and version 5, with the same result.
>
That's strange.

> Again, if I wanted to set up a system to play HDTV off of
> cable/internet/phone what would I need to get? A new hard drive
> probably, right? (I currently have 2 40 GB drives, but they'd obviously
> be unsufficient for TIVO.) A new CPU probably, also? And a new video card?
>
For cable, you'll need a QAM capable tuner. Phone? (Fios maybe, don't
know). Internet, you can forget for HDTV. 1080i broadcast take about 7GB
per hour. 720p about 4GB per hour. SD only takes about 1GB per hour.

> I wonder why Knoppix behaves this way? Perhaps it's the same problem
> that I have with video? Some sort of intermittent problem? Some
> hardware conflict?

Maybe that IRQ sharing you have.

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