[mythtv-users] Wake on lan for front end?
Greg Oliver
oliver.greg at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 00:55:40 UTC 2010
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:26 PM, mythtv at blandford.net
<mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 04:34 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Joe Henley<joehenley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What you describe is how I have my system set up.
>>>
>>> I put the FE into S-3 at the end of every use. Then when I want to watch
>>> something again, it takes only seconds to restart. I cycle thru S-3 to
>>> active and back for weeks at a time with little to no problems.
>>>
>>> I do have periodic problems; maybe once every month or two, where I have
>>> to
>>> shut the FE down completely and then reboot. My suspicion is that it's a
>>> power glitch or similar issue. I've never been able to find a software
>>> cause for it. And it takes only three or four minutes to power down
>>> completely and reboot, so it's no big deal.
>>>
>>> There are alot of folks who are doing similar things with the MiniMyth FE
>>> package. Check out www.minimyth.org.
>>>
>>> Good luck! Try MiniMyth -- you're going to like it.
>>
>> Yes - I second the recommendation for minimyth. It suspends very well
>> right out of the box. I never could get a nfsroot setup to resume
>> from suspend, so finding minimyth with the ram rootfs was a good
>> thing. It will auto setup almost everything for you.
>
>
> I use minimyth with NFS and suspend to ram works just fine for me.
>
I never tried minimyth with nfsroot, but with ltsp, I never could get
it to work properly (reliably).. I prefer to run from ram anyhow..
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