[mythtv-users] ASUS M2NPV-VM or GIGABYTE GA-M68SM-S2

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 17:49:01 UTC 2007


2007/12/22, Don Jerman <djerman at pobox.com>:
> The asus board works fine with ivtv and dual hauppauge 500's, but I
> don't suspend and I run mythbuntu, so I don't know about that.
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 5:43 PM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have see lots of posts about the Asus.  People seem to use them with good
> > success.  I am upgraded my Mythbox due to getting tired of XvMC, lock up
> > with IVTV, and no suspend.  I want to do my research this time and am
> > interested in a few things:
> >
> > 1.  Do any of these boards support Suspend out of the box with Fedora 8?  S3
> > in particular
> > 2.  Any issues with ivtv drivers?  (my current board gets buffer error and
> > then it locks up)
> > 3.  General suggestions/comments?
> >
> > On a side note.  Currently i am running a P4 3.4Ghz.  What power savings
> > will i get compared to a Athlon X2 5200 65nm? (assuming i leave it on all
> > the time in dollars if that possible.)
> >

M2NPV-VM with 2 HDDs, PVR500, PVR150, on-board sound

Suspend to RAM (S3) is working now (I had problems with old kernels),
but I have to do following before suspending:
1. check if ivtv is busy ... unload ivtv and depending modules if not
busy or stop suspend if ivtv is busy
2. stop lircd and unload lirc modules
3. unload usb modules
4. set wake up time


@1: Unloading ivtv should not be needed, but I sometimes got errors
after waking up
@3: If I do not unload usb modules, mythbox wakes up after one second
@2: I am unloading lirc modules because of unloaded usb modules
(remote's ir-receiver is connected to usb)

the problem with this process is that I have to restart mythfrontend
after waking up, because mythfrontend looses contact to lirc if it is
restarted. but I do not mind restarting mythfrontend, is just takes a
few seconds.

all together: suspending in 2-3 seconds ... waking up in 7-8 seconds
(longer because of restarting mythfrontend).


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