[mythtv-users] minimum specs for PCHDTV-5500?

[Larry Sanderson]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 04:30:23 pm Roger Heflin wrote:
> Phil Bridges wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Mary Strimel 
<mary.strimel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  Thank you for the quick reply.  My machine has 1 GB of RAM. 
> >> Running "cat /proc/cpu" reports an AMD Athlon64 at 800 mhz.
> >
> > What is the CPU description?  It should run much faster than a
> > perceived 800Mhz; it should play HD fine.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I missed that, it would have to be in powersave mode, I did not think
> AMD ever made any 64-bit processors that went that slow, except in
> powersave mode.   What is the full info out of "cat /proc/cpuinfo",
> and does it speed up when you are trying to watch video?

Try this (it works on my gentoo system... I assume it's similar for most 
that use the 2.6 kernel cpufreq drivers):

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

For my "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+" laptop, this yields:

2400000 2000000 800000

So, I can go up to 2.4GHz, but normally run at 800MHz.