User:Pnuts
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Pnuts Introduction to LMCE
Prior to ever hearing about LMCE I had an extensive network that was based around Windows systems with a Windows XP MCE in the living room and an xbox 360 acting as an extender on my media\office room. Other then briefly touching Linux here or there, I know very little about it but have always wanted to learn more.
A coworker of mine heard about my setup at home and was looking into doing something similar himself. He had read\heard a lot about LMCE and mentioned it to me. Hearing Linux and being a fairly complete Windows user, I did no bother to look into it at all. Several months later, I was talking to the same coworker about possibly setting up webcams in a home i recently purchased to make my own low budget security system and was looking for software to do it with. He again mentioned LMCE and quickly shot over a link to this LinuxMCE Video.
After watching a minute of the video, I was hooked. I went about researching what i would need to do and planning out how to do it. Now here I am starting a Wiki page of my experiances from start to finish, or rather where i currently am in the setup, who really is ever finished. So here I am. I will update this page as I build out the network so check back for updates.
The Complete Home System
Here I will break out each system that is on my network and touch on any issues or problems i have or have had while getting everything up and running.
The Core
The system I used for my Core already had a larger case and after talking it over on the forums, seemed to be a great fit for the job.
Specs
Mother Board: A8V Deluxe CPU: AMD64 3800+ RAM: 4x512mb Kingston HyperX DDR. 2gb Total AGP Slot: empty PCI-1: ATI Radeon 7000 64mb DDR with VGP\DVI\S-Video Out PCI-2: 3com Fast EtherLink XL PCI-3: Empty PCI-4: Empty PCI-5: Empty Onboard raid1: 2x Western Digital 74gb Raptor drives in Raid0 (Stripe) 148gb Total Onboard raid2: 2x Western Digita 320gb Caviar drives in Raid1 (Mirror) 320gb Total IDE: Generic DVD-RW high speed drive
Installation Issues
I will break out any issues I encountered with the above system here
A8V Deluxe Motherboard
I went with a PCI video card after reading about an issue when using the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE card together with an AGP card. I knew from a past experiance that i could not use a PCI raid card with an AGP video card on this system due to both having a PCI bridge, so i figured it to be true and didnt even bother to test it with an AGP card.
