[mythtv-users] My MythTV journey

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Dec 25, 2003, at 06:34, Torsten Schenkel wrote:

> Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Joseph A. Caputo um 16:48:
>> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:07, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>> * Stay away from nforce boards
>>>
>>> I disagree. That has to be qualified. Stay away from nForce boards if
>>> you aren't experienced and won't be installing Fedora/Red Hat.
>>> Otherwise, they work quite well. I patched absolutely nothing to get
>>> mine working, first under Red Hat Linux 9, now under Fedora Core.
>>
>> Hmmm, what's the state of things for other distros regarding nForce?
>> I'm pretty experienced & have no problem patching, building new
>> kernels, etc.  Is it really a PITA to get all of the stuff nForce 
>> needs
>> in other distros (say, Debian/KnoppMyth)?  I'm trying to decide if I
>> want my new box to have an nForce2 board, and I'll want to pick an
>> appropriate distro to go with it.  I was hoping to migrate away from
>> RH/Fedora as I wanted to try an apt-based distro.
>
> It only is a PITA if you don't know what the problem is:
> [snip]
> Today you know what it is, so all you'll need is a new kernel. And a 
> bit
> of patience or a second machine to compile it on, since you can't be
> sure the machine survives long enough :-)

Heh... Fun! But certainly doable. I commence work on a secondary system 
for upstairs this weekend, and I think I've finally committed myself to 
doing it under Debian, but its not an nForce2 board. Then I've got a 
HushPC I'm going to set up w/Gentoo, following Ivor's docs... I love 
four-day weekends!!!

> Funny enough, I never heard of installation problems. Maybe the debian
> install kernels have APIC disabled?

Most of the time, an installer kernel will have only the bare 
essentials enabled, the idea being to keep the memory and disk space 
footprints as small as possible and make it work on the lowest common 
denominator system, so I wouldn't expect any distro's installer kernel 
to have APIC enabled.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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