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<FONT SIZE="4">I put my hand on a mini PC, installed Ubuntu Hardy on it with Gnome desktop and mythtv 0.21-fixes. </FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4">Unfortunately it seems a bit underpowered. The system monitor displayed takes 100% CPU (25% for system monitor and 75% for Xorg). It actuall runs myth fine, up to the moment an OSD is displayed, then audio starts to crackle and errors appear in the log. Guess it's running at its max. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">So I need some recommendations to build a lean, custum built kernel and if possible a minimized version of myth. All I need initially would be the option to play live TV and recordings/movies. Nice to have: firefox </FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">The box has 2 videocards, one built-in and one PCI FX5200. Would prefer the built-in one (so I could remove the FX5200 and add a USB 2.0 PCI card), but that is again a nice to have. It has only one PCI slot.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">Johan</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">below is the output of sysinfo:</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 7/6/2008 10:10:56 PM</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo">http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo</A></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">SYSTEM INFORMATION</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) release.</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> GNOME: 2.22.2 (Ubuntu 2008-06-03)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Kernel version: 2.6.24-19-generic (#1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> GCC: 4.2.3 (i486-linux-gnu)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Xorg: unknown (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM) (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Hostname: johan-desktop</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Uptime: 0 days 3 h 24 min</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">CPU INFORMATION</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> CentaurHauls, VIA Nehemiah</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Number of CPUs: 1</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> CPU clock currently at 731.000 MHz with 64 KB cache</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Numbering: family(6) model(9) stepping(8)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Bogomips: 1465.12</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 sep mtrr pge cmov pat mmx fxsr sse up rng rng_en ace ace_en</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">MEMORY INFORMATION</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Total memory: 1003 MB</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Total swap: 1608 MB</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">STORAGE INFORMATION</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> SCSI device - scsi1</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Vendor: ATA </FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Model: FUJITSU MHV2040A </FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">HARDWARE INFORMATION</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4">MOTHERBOARD</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Host bridge</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia]</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> PCI bridge(s)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> USB controller(s)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> ISA bridge</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> IDE interface</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">GRAPHIC CARD</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VGA controller</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Subsystem: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">SOUND CARD</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Multimedia controller</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">NETWORK</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Ethernet controller</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4">NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Model name: GeForce FX 5200</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Card Type: PCI </FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Video RAM: 128 MB</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> GPU Frequency: 250 MHz</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4"> Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.05 Mon May 19 00:06:12 PDT 2008</FONT><BR>
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