[mythtv-users] Success! EPIA-M Fedora Core 2

[Travis Kelley]

At this point I can't personally recommend using a m10000/m6000 to
anyone as a combined frontend/backend with disks internal.  However in
my experience, and I have run mine both ways, it works great when you
netboot it and don't have any hard drives internal.  I think this is how
Ivor is running his and he says he has no problems.  I think that
removing all the dma traffic from the hard disk from the system is
enough to keep it from locking on you.  If you do get one I would
definately look into netboot.

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:58, Juan C. Gallardo wrote:
> I was thinking on buying a m10k, but I now I am concern about the dma
> thing.
> You guys that already have one, would you recommend one of this in case
> of wanting a silent computer for my tv-room?
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:43 -0500, Travis Kelley wrote:
> > Not to dampen your spirits any but I had a m10000 working great to.  But
> > the dma issues do begin to become a problem if you are planning on
> > leaving it on all the time.  One suggestion...I know it makes the system
> > slow but turning off DMA on the hard drive does help.  Actually if you
> > network boot the eden without a hard drive people have reported great
> > success.  I've been pretty happy with mine since I started network
> > booting it (its almost silent also).  I have been using mine in that
> > role here lately and it works pretty well, but I'm planning on moving
> > back to a combined backend/frontend on a new P4 2.8 here in the next day
> > or so.  Anybody want a used via:)
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:51, Kenneth Wong wrote:
> > > Just wanted to share my good fortune with everyone here. :)  I've
> > > successfully put together a Myth-TV box on an EPIA M10000 board using
> > > Fedora Core 2.
> > > 
> > > The sound is a little iffy because I think I didn't setup ALSA properly,
> > > but I was able to:
> > >  - record a one hour show last night
> > >  - playback the same show while it was recording
> > >  - surf through the channels
> > > 
> > > I don't know how stable it is at this point because I've heard that
> > > there are DMA issues that may come into play.  But this is the furthest
> > > I've ever gotten and I'm damn excited. :)
> > > 
> > > As a quick summary, I followed the instructions provided at:
> > > 
> > > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> > > 
> > > I skipped the video driver installation portion of the doc.
> > > 
> > > I then followed the instructions at:
> > > 
> > > http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/
> > > 
> > > to get the unichrome drivers up and running.
> > > 
> > > Everything worked beautifully!
> > > 
> > > I'm now in the process of re-building my box without any of the extra
> > > overhead of KDE/GNOME (also to try and see if I can document everything
> > > cleanly for others).
> > > 
> > > A BIG thanks to everyone in the MythTV community.  I couldn't have
> > > pulled this off without all the help here.
> > > 
> > > Ken.
> > > 
> > > 
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