[mythtv-users] Help Diskless frontend

[Dan Littlejohn]

On 10/31/05, Adam Skinner <kingmoffa at gmail.com> wrote:
> My diskless system is only a slow celeron 500 with 256ram. I would
> have ruled it out for being two slow, only to get a p2 350 (with HDD)
> with half the ram working well
>
> As mentioned b4 , it basically a gentoo setup. Thats no ramdisk in
> use. X is slow , but responsive.  Im running a icewm , as gnome is far
> 2 heavy duty. Nothing much else in use.  Im not sure if its related to
> my X setup or not. Its a std intel graphics chip setup , no direct
> rendering on. Not noticed any problems.
>
> This machine is only intended as a front end for myth tv, and doesn't
> have to run anything else. Frame buffer may help?
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I am running a 600 MHz Gentoo diskless frontend, nfs mount, and it
rocks.  Even use it to flag commercials sometimes, and other intensive
usage and no problems.  Have a FX5200 and the display is fast and
responsive.  No swap, 1 gig of memory and good to go.  Only a CPU and
power supply fan and they only spin up to an audiable level when in
heavy usage.  Had a TNT video card on my server and that was really
painful to use, changed it out for a FX5200 and it to rocks.  Maybe
look at your video card.

Dan