[mythtv-users] k7S5A board, do XP-M cpus work?

[Kurt]

Thanks for the previous response on kernels, MythTV list.  Taking a look at 
what hardware I have available, I see that I have a K7S5A motherboard that 
can have its bios flashed to accept an XP-2600 cpu, and I can upgrade to 
2x512 MB 266DDR.

I have the board, a Plextor TV402U USB 2.0 tuner, and a case (I have the box 
working with a 1.2 GHz Duron and 192 MB of SDRam).  I'll have to buy the cpu 
and memory (and a USB 2.0 card) for this planned backend.  I may have one 512 
MB stick available, so it may only be one 512 MB stick I'll be buying. Not 
worried about TV-out at this point, I have a few options available to me.

Looking at Pricewatch, the only XP-2600, XP-2500, XP-2400 cpus I see that are 
reasonable (below $100) seem to be the mobile XP-M-2600 and lower speed 
mobile cpus.  Can this board or any desktop  motherboard use an XP-M cpu 
without problems, will I run into problems, or it won't work at all, etc.

My other option seems to be a Duron 1.8 GHz cpu instead of the XP-M-2600.  Am 
I stuck with this Duron if the XP-M (mobile) version doesn't work?

I'll be using Debian Sarge (if it works, MythTV appears to have hit either 
Sarge or backports in the last week), with a 2.6.11-k7 or later kernel, or if 
Sarge is no good I'll go to unstable with the latest unstable kernel.

Does everyone's hands start to sweat and shake when the possiblity of actually 
getting a MythTV setup working enters the realm of possibility?

Thanks

Kurt.
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