[mythtv] Poll: System Requirements

[Lonnie Borntreger]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 03:06, Ray wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:14:35AM -0600, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > Asus A7M266-D MB with 2 Athlon 1700+ XP
> > 
> > Watched, paused, etc. while never going above 35% of a single CPU.  Also
> > had KDE, Mozilla, and a kernel build going on at the same time.  No
> > glitches at all, even full screen.
> 
> This is a little OT but I've been looking for a good dual Athlon board, have
> you been happy with that one under Linux?  Also do you know if the halt
> power saving feature of acapi/apm is functional?

Haven't done anything with acpi/apm at all.  Overall, this is a very
nice board for Linux (had it for around a year now), as long as you
remember the special Athlon kernel switches (below).  It's fast, stable,
etc.  The only beef is the on-board audio, and limited slots.  The sound
driver seems to have some issues (according to the ALSA list, this is
not specific to this MB), but as long as you don't need to have Mic in,
it's OK.  I'm close to getting a new sound card, but can't afford it
right now.

Lonnie

Kernel options for Athlon SMP:
"noapic mem=nopentium"