[mythtv-users] Power off
Jarod Wilson
jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed Sep 3 15:58:40 EDT 2003
On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 10:46 US/Pacific, mark.carline wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am currently building a box using a MINI-ITX board and a remote
> control that uses LIRC.
>
> The hardware box itself will have very limited buttons on the front and
> back which will include:
>
> 1) Power on button (wired to the on board power on switch).
> 2) Standby button (wired to the on board sleep jumers).
> 3) Reset (wired to the on board reset jumbers)
>
> My only question is that how do most people switch their box off ?
They don't.
> I would like a button on the front of the box that when hit it does a
> nice clean shutdown
Good luck with that. I'm unaware of a way to do that. It's a bit
outside the scope of this list, too...
> I also wanted to be able to select shutdown from
> the menu option and this then shutsdown the box cleanly.
If you set up MythTV properly, you can have an exit key that'll give
you a menu that'll let you either exit MythTV to the desktop, or shut
down the system. Look in the Setup section within mythfrontend.
> I also wondered if anyone has any tips on the configuration of RH9 to
> speeded up the startup and shutdown of the box?
Install the bare minimum of software you need, disable all extra
daemons you don't need. Personally, I just always leave mine on.
--Jarod
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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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