[mythtv-users] Success! EPIA-M Fedora Core 2

[Juan C. Gallardo]

I was thinking on buying a m10k, but I now I am concern about the dma
thing.
You guys that already have one, would you recommend one of this in case
of wanting a silent computer for my tv-room?

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:43 -0500, Travis Kelley wrote:
> Not to dampen your spirits any but I had a m10000 working great to.  But
> the dma issues do begin to become a problem if you are planning on
> leaving it on all the time.  One suggestion...I know it makes the system
> slow but turning off DMA on the hard drive does help.  Actually if you
> network boot the eden without a hard drive people have reported great
> success.  I've been pretty happy with mine since I started network
> booting it (its almost silent also).  I have been using mine in that
> role here lately and it works pretty well, but I'm planning on moving
> back to a combined backend/frontend on a new P4 2.8 here in the next day
> or so.  Anybody want a used via:)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:51, Kenneth Wong wrote:
> > Just wanted to share my good fortune with everyone here. :)  I've
> > successfully put together a Myth-TV box on an EPIA M10000 board using
> > Fedora Core 2.
> > 
> > The sound is a little iffy because I think I didn't setup ALSA properly,
> > but I was able to:
> >  - record a one hour show last night
> >  - playback the same show while it was recording
> >  - surf through the channels
> > 
> > I don't know how stable it is at this point because I've heard that
> > there are DMA issues that may come into play.  But this is the furthest
> > I've ever gotten and I'm damn excited. :)
> > 
> > As a quick summary, I followed the instructions provided at:
> > 
> > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> > 
> > I skipped the video driver installation portion of the doc.
> > 
> > I then followed the instructions at:
> > 
> > http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/
> > 
> > to get the unichrome drivers up and running.
> > 
> > Everything worked beautifully!
> > 
> > I'm now in the process of re-building my box without any of the extra
> > overhead of KDE/GNOME (also to try and see if I can document everything
> > cleanly for others).
> > 
> > A BIG thanks to everyone in the MythTV community.  I couldn't have
> > pulled this off without all the help here.
> > 
> > Ken.
> > 
> > 
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