[mythtv-users] Motherboard for diskless HD-capable frontend

MythTV mythtv at blandford.net
Mon Oct 29 21:06:14 UTC 2007


Ma Begaj wrote:
> nice news ... I am not in need of 1Gb at the moment, but I will test
> with a new kernel upgrade.
>
> thanks for the info.
>
> M.
>
> 2007/10/29, Jeppe N. Madsen <jeppe at ingolfs.dk>:
>   
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Ma Begaj wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> 1) Built in GPU capable of HD support with DVI or HDMI, and
>>>>    S-Video TV-out
>>>> 2) Built in sound that supports SPDIF at 44.1khz without re-sampling
>>>> 3) Must support S3 (suspend to ram) in Linux
>>>> 4) GBit LAN with PXE boot
>>>>
>>>> The ASUS M2NPV-VM seems to match most criteria except 2)
>>>>         
>>>  4) is also not GBit ... forcedeth module supports only 100MBit.
>>>       
>> Hmmmm didn't know that, but it seems to be coming (from
>> http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/)
>>
>>
>> UPDATE:
>> NVidia has contributed gigabit support to forcedeth, so I'll work
>> on integrating their patch and fixing remaining bugs in it. If you want
>> to try it, download forcedeth_gigabit_try19.txt and apply it against
>> the latest 2.6 kernel.
>>
>>     

If you look at the patch and the timestamps you will see those are from 
about 2004.  The patches are rev 0.23 on that page and current 2.6 
kernels are something like .61 which supports gig and has for quite a while.

Michael



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