[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 25 June 2004 02:15, Stephen Tait wrote:
> The ivtv people have a (very small) patch for XFree they suggest you use if
> you're using the 350 FB. There are lots of people who don't have problems,
> but some 350 users get random X lockups; that's what the patched version is
> meant to fix.

The only patch I'm aware of is for the ivtv driver (Matthias' fix-prepdma 
patch), and then his ivtvdev X driver. No actual patching of XFree86. That's 
the combination I'm using for 350 output on my EPIA, and it works great, 
haven't had a single lockup with that setup.

> At 19:52 24/06/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 19:14, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > <even bigger>I reserve the dual Athlon MP for my workstation machine,
> >
> > with 2GB
> >
> > > of RAM and 4x36GB 10krpm SCSI drives on an Adaptec 2100s RAID
> >
> > controller. As
> >
> > > for the storage, my file server has 1TB of disk space across 7 drives,
> > > RAID-5'd. And GigE.</even bigger> =)
> >
> >Good grief. How do you do backups?
> >
> > > > The 350 framebuffer is perfectly stable so long as you're prepared to
> > > > install teh haXx0r3d version of XFree
> > >
> > > Eh? I'm running XFree86 4.3 as distributed by Red Hat, with nothing
> >
> > more than
> >
> > > the ivtvdev driver added... Perfectly stable. And what version are you
> > > talking about?...
> >
> >I was going to ask that too; what's this about hacking xfree?

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