[mythtv-users] Mythtv 31 on a Zotac Ion

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Fri Aug 14 10:57:06 UTC 2020


On 14/08/2020 08:36, David Watkins wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> The box only has 2GB RAM sadly, and the BIOS steals 512K of that( 
> onboard Graphics?), but one advantage of old hardware is I might be able 
> to find some DDR2 memory lying about the house somewhere.
> 
> I didn't have any problems with the NIC or any other hardware when I did 
> my test install yesterday, but I had to use quite an old version of the 
> nVidia driver (340 I think).
> 
> Anyway the SSD arrived last night so I'm giving it a go, and if that 
> board can't hack it then I'm on the lookout for new hardware.  I liked 
> that ion board because it was small and quiet.  GUI wasn't snappy but it 
> was OK, and the Video playback was pretty good.
> 

Please keep us posted. I for one would be very interested to know how 
you get on. My frontend is on Zotac Ion. I hope to move from 29 to 31 at 
some stage and have been wondering how well the new rendering code works 
on this old, probably not much tested platform.


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