[mythtv-users] Knoppmyth + improvements?

[Mark]

PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

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>>>I decided to try out Knoppmyth for a frontend.
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>>>To those of you that run it, is there some way I can 
>>>"tune" it for a fx5200?  The video is REALLY choppy, displaying 
>>>maybe 5 frames per second.  I know it works because I had 
>>>a full blown fc2 installation on it working fine, but wanted to 
>>>try out knoppmyth.  I also don't have audio working, but I 
>>>figure I'll work that out after I can get the video worked out.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Paul
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>>Are you running the frontend off the CD?  What other hardware are you
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>>running on?  While you cannot install the nVidia drivers while running
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>>on the CD, it should run fine.  I first tested the CD running the 
>>frontend on a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop (P III 700 w/ 256 and a 
>>Geforce2Go) it ran fine (the smile that brought to my first...).
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>>Regards,
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>>Cecil
>>http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/ 
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>I don't have a CD-rom drive connected to this machine permanently, it 
>was only connected temporarily via a USB cable.  It ran ok (about as 
>choppy), so I thought by installing it fully I'd see it run a little
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>The machine is an IBM NetVista, PIII 933MHz box with 256mb ram.
>It's also got (obviously) an FX5200, so I would think it's got the 
>horsepower to do 30 fps or so.
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>Paul
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You need the nvidia driver to get any performance out of it.  I just 
installed Knoppmyth
on another frontend last night and had the same symptoms without the 
driver.  With driver,
all better.