Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Ribe
That's an Athlon XP 2600+, not a 2.6GHz Athlon XP. Look it up. On 11/10/05, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, hadn't seen that. Then I really should redo the benchmark and doit properly to see if there is any difference. However, "(e.g. a 1.6 GHz Pentium M can typically attain the pe

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-10 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
Oh, hadn't seen that. Then I really should redo the benchmark and do it properly to see if there is any difference. However, "(e.g. a 1.6 GHz Pentium M can typically attain the performance of a 2.4 GHz Northwood Pentium 4 (400 MHz FSB, 100 MHz quad-pumped)" Shouldn't the AMD XP 2.6GHz be snappie

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-10 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/10/05, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However... > > I used the test script found here > http://www.xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/sultra_skami.html > > on the Mobile Pentium 4 1600 MHz with Gentoo installed. THe script > completed in 17 seconds , with some apps running. Comparing

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-10 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
However... I used the test script found here http://www.xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/sultra_skami.html on the Mobile Pentium 4 1600 MHz with Gentoo installed. THe script completed in 17 seconds , with some apps running. Comparing this to other reports, my 1600 MHz with Gentoo on it is as good as a

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-09 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
On 11/5/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The performance "improvement" is pretty much a myth (no pun intended). > The beauty of gentoo is in it's package management and flexibility. The > conventional wisdom at present seem to be that you might notice a > performance improvement on very

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:38:05 -0500 Myth Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I exagerated the amount of time a bit :) But even over night is > unacceptable to me given the 'little' performance improvement you get. The performance "improvement" is pretty much a myth (no pun intended). The beau

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:26:17 -0500 Myth Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A little bit of time? Don't you mean alot of time compiling? I have > tried Gentoo and the compiling of *everything* takes forever. I have > yet to find a pre-compiled install that at least gets me going with the > ba

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/3/05, Myth Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I'm a Gentoo user... > > > >I have Gentoo running two backend server, 4 frontend only boxes, and a > >couple more PCs where I occasionally watch TV. I run Celeron, P4-HT, > >Athlon and AMD64 systems. They all work great. >

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Thursday 03 November 2005 05:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:07:24PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! > > And maybe one of them can help me. I have a Xebian/Debian mix on my > xbox right now and effectively can't use

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread mark
I've had Gentoo (several flavors) completely refuse to operate on my generic system. I'm no newb either. Redhat 5.2 was my first distro. I run a mix of Knoppmyth, slackware, and Mandrake right now. I just couldn't get Gentoo running... ___ mythtv-

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread chris
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:07:24PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! And maybe one of them can help me. I have a Xebian/Debian mix on my xbox right now and effectively can't use it for anything until the Xorg driver issue is resolved and/or MythTV is

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Myth Lists
___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yes, you must have missed something. It took me not longer than one night to compile the whole gentoo system from stage 2, including X-Serve

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Calvin Harrigan
Myth Lists wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I'm a Gentoo user... I have Gentoo running two backend server, 4 frontend only boxes, and a couple more PCs where I occasionally watch TV. I run Celeron, P4-HT, Athlon and AMD64 systems. They all work great. I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years no

AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread pschormeir
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Myth Lists Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. November 2005 16:26 An: Discussion about mythtv Betreff: Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go? Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm a Gentoo user... > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:26:17AM -0500, Myth Lists wrote: > > A little bit of time? Don't you mean alot of time compiling? I have > tried Gentoo and the compiling of *everything* takes forever. I have > yet to find a pre-compiled install that at least gets me going with the > basic xwindows

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Myth Lists
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm a Gentoo user... I have Gentoo running two backend server, 4 frontend only boxes, and a couple more PCs where I occasionally watch TV. I run Celeron, P4-HT, Athlon and AMD64 systems. They all work great. I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now. It's great never

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am thinking gentoo may be the answer but how stable is it and how > > difficult to set up (I have compiled a few kernels). > > After having not used linux in 5 years or so, I got back into it by > embarking on a Myth/Gentoo project. If

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread greg
> I am thinking gentoo may be the answer but how stable is it and how > difficult to set up (I have compiled a few kernels). After having not used linux in 5 years or so, I got back into it by embarking on a Myth/Gentoo project. If you're not afraid of compiling a kernel, Gentoo is a snap to set

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Denier
Gentoo is good to learn about linux on it. I personally use it exclusively, although I've spent a lot of time waiting for stuff to compile at times. Of course it is possible to split compilation among several pc's or compile your own binary versions for later use, but I typically find it easiest

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread William Kenworthy
There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! I have found gentoo easy enough to set up for a pure myth only box (twice, was running only one week and HW failure!) but I have built many gentoo systems previously. There are howtos for myth, lists, docs and user forums are excellent (best of any dis

[mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Ben Edwards
I have been having various problems installing MythTV.  My prefered option is Ubuntu Breezy but I cant get that woring (c other email).  I have also had some luck with KnoppixMyth whitch is great at getting a basic system running.  However getting everything working properly is a nightmare as there