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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>Hi
Everyone!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>Just finished
installing Fedora & MythTV via Jarod's guide on the following (spare parts)
machine.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>Celeron 333MHz
overclocked to 550MHz</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>262M RAM (every
leftover stick I had)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>10G IDE
harddrive</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>Nvidia FX
5200</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>SB
Live</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>DLink 108 wireless
with madwifi drivers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT><SPAN class=750052706-10102006>
<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Everything is "working" except that every so
often, playback will pause for about a second then continue. It's pretty long
between pauses, on the order of 10 minutes or so. However, if I wake up in the
middle of the night and the video is still playing after a few hours, it is very
choppy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't think it is
the wireless since my standalone backend/front end is networked through a
102.11b gaming adapter and I get nice smooth video on my vmware virtual machine
running on an Athlon 64. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>My guess is that the
machine is just barely too slow so I decided to try ratpoison to free up some
resources. I yum installed it, selected it from custom session, clicked to make
it default and setup a ~mythtv/.xsession file just as it says
here</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/98133?nohighlight=1#98133">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/98133?nohighlight=1#98133</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>However I don't
think this file is every executed as mythfrontend never starts. So I RTFM
at ratpoison site (which doesn't mention anything about how to install ratpoison
btw). and decided to create a .ratpoisonrc file too. Doesnt seem that this gets
executed either since frontend still doesnt start up. Also when I ctrl-t or
ctrl-c, no terminal pops up. I obviously don't know anything about ratpoison and
the documentation is horrible unless you already know how to use
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone have any idea
what boneheaded thing I'm doing wrong ;)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>One other thing that
is weird is that every so often during playback, it will just quit out of
playback back to the mythtv gui menus...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any
help!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750052706-10102006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Eric</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>