[mythtv-users] Foxconn NVIDIA ION system and 2G ram stick at newegg

[Ozzy Lash]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> Not sure if you have kept up with the nV News threads that were posted
>>> to this thread before, but I'm just getting around to setting up this
>>> box, and I went to those threads, and it looks like there is a
>>> workaround for the lockups.  You need to add the kernel option
>>> pci=nomsi.  It appears that the issue was with the atheros wired
>>> ethernet on the board.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>> Hey Bill, I haven't checked lately, but this is *great* news, I'll
>> have to pull this out of the closet and try it.
>
> Well, I pulled it out, added the fix to the boot parameters and it
> indeed looks to have fixed it for my device. I was able to stream HD
> over the wireless N to the device without it freezing up. Sans any
> further issues I can say this device is now quite Myth-friendly as a
> frontend.
>
>

Awesome!  I am trying to find time to set up a PXE boot environment
for the box.  I probably won't try it as a myth frontend until I
update the other myth boxes to 0.24 (waiting for shows to go on
Christmas hiatus and for the early adopters to find all the issues).

Bill