[mythtv-users] Tips to make my MythTV box feel less like a computer?

[Paul Pick]

> 1) On-boot loading screens (the one where it's starting services etc)

I believe that's rhgb. You can either 'rpm -e rhgb' or just remove
it from your kernel options grub.conf.

> 2) GDM Login window
...
> 3) Replace the mouse cursor with a 1px black dot, or better yet, get  
> rid of it completely

Check out the wiki page for autologins:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login

...and then ask yourself if you really need a display manager
(gdm) or a window manager (ratpoison) at all. Doing without them
will certainly speed up your power-on-to-mythfrontend time.

> # chkconfig --list | grep on

I think you'll find "chkconfig --list|grep 5:on" will filter some
of the cruft.

Nothing really jumps out of that list. Obviously, if you don't
use something (httpd, nfs*, bluetooth, etc) then disable it.
If sendmail takes a very long time to start then perhaps you
have hostname-not-resolvable problems.

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