Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-18 Thread Ignacio -
We try to use EPIA instead of a big atx case. Not for better performance. How net boot works? Maybe it will be better than CF ide adapter. Any requeriments? Im using a standard gigabit card r8169 and Gentoo. - Take Surveys.

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 heavy CPU usage?

2006-11-18 Thread Philip Armstrong
Anyone else seeing Freevo 1.6 use a lot of CPU when idle? My installation seems to be looping over select on a socket (from running strace on the process): It uses about 85% of my 1GHz Duron continuously until I play a stored video file. After returning to the freevo menu, it will then use about

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 heavy CPU usage?

2006-11-18 Thread harri
On Saturday 18 November 2006 15:45, Philip Armstrong wrote: Anyone else seeing Freevo 1.6 use a lot of CPU when idle? My installation seems to be looping over select on a socket (from running strace on the process): It uses about 85% of my 1GHz Duron continuously until I play a stored video

Re: [Freevo-users] Perfect motherboard for Freevo (was Re: Freevo box over Compact Flash.)

2006-11-18 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:14:16 +0100 Paul Sijben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -capable of playing mpeg2,mp3,mpeg4 -low noise (this also implies low-noise/fanless CPU setup) -at least 2 PCI slots -TV-out,optionally HD-TV-out -good sound -good price Which MB fits the bill? Unfortunately,

Re: [Freevo-users] Perfect motherboard for Freevo (was Re: Freevo box over Compact Flash.)

2006-11-18 Thread Jaap Struyk
Op za 18-11-2006, om 18:06 schreef Eric Jorgensen: I'm using an Asus A7V-880 with an athlon xp mobile In the case of AMD cpu's there are some *cool (vcool, fvcool) tools around that will force the cpu in sleep mode and fire it up if needed. I use it on my old athlon 1333 cpu with an Zahlmann

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 heavy CPU usage?

2006-11-18 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:56:34PM +0100, harri wrote: Takes about 0% on my box, Asus Pundit, 2.4GHz Pentium, Mandriva 2007 2.6.17.13-mm-desktop-3mdv #1 PREEMPT realtime kernel, Python 2.4.3. (It is 1.6.1 svn version that fixes a number of unicode bugs). What OS and kernel do you have?

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-18 Thread Cornelius Koelbel
Hi, to use pxe boot I installed and configured dhcp and tftp. A dhcp.conf on my FC4 (server) would look like this --snip-- # # DHCP Server Configuration file. # see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample # deny unknown-clients; not authoritative; option domain-name az.local;

Re: [Freevo-users] Perfect motherboard for Freevo (was Re: Freevo box over Compact Flash.)

2006-11-18 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:22:07 +0100 Jaap Struyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op za 18-11-2006, om 18:06 schreef Eric Jorgensen: I'm using an Asus A7V-880 with an athlon xp mobile In the case of AMD cpu's there are some *cool (vcool, fvcool) tools around that will force the cpu in sleep mode

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 heavy CPU usage?

2006-11-18 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:31:27PM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:56:34PM +0100, harri wrote: Takes about 0% on my box, Asus Pundit, 2.4GHz Pentium, Mandriva 2007 2.6.17.13-mm-desktop-3mdv #1 PREEMPT realtime kernel, Python 2.4.3. (It is 1.6.1 svn version that