MythTV on older hardware (Re: Newbie SIG)

[Ralph Shumaker]

Gus Wirth wrote:

>On the high end are cards that can automatically compress the signal using
>onboard hardware and thus offload all the work from the CPU. For example, I
>have a Hauppauge PVR-150 card that produces a MPEG-2 video stream that can
>be saved directly to disk. The CPU utilization on my system is so low that
>it oftentimes doesn't even show up in top, mostly 1% or less. Almost any
>system with a PCI bus can handle one of of these cards. There is a big
>warning about certain hardware interactions because of poor DMA
>implementations (mostly VIA chipsets) so read up first.
>  
>

How can I find out what chipset I have?  I have a PentiumII-350 cpu in a 
gateway machine.  Inked on the motherboard itself is "CE E139761" where 
the "C" is that half-looking "C" that doesn't seem to quite have the 
ends.  A sticker on the motherboard has "ISRC84305512  AA  718142-207".

There are several chips that have what look like just a bunch of part 
numbers.  Of those that seem to have some kind of name on them, I see 
SMsC, Intel PCIset, Sharp, CREATIVE, & Glue 2.