[mythtv-users] Dual Core Atom for frontend

[Martin Koller]

On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Mark J. Small wrote:
> What do you folks think of using one of the new Dual Core Atom 330s
> for a low power frontend?  The new one just came out and I can get it
> pretty cheap from my favorite supplier ($89)
>
> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GCLF2/D945GCLF
>2-overview.htm

I'm currently setting up a minimyth frontend with that board - but up 
till now I did not get it running.
My first try was to boot from a local CF card - which did not work.
The board simply did not boot from it.
Then I changed to network boot facing a new problem that the kernel 
2.6.23 (from minimyth-0.21.0-58) has a problem with the onboard 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller, so the startup 
got stuck when minimyth started the DHCP client.
With the latest test version minimyth-0.21.0-59b3, which now uses a 
newer kernel, this problem was solved, but I still have no running 
system (I posted my problem in the minimyth forum today - hope to get 
some help soon)

And: although the reseller told me I will hardly hear the fan ... :-( 
this is not the case. I will see if this will be a real problem when I 
finally have it running and tried with the closed case in the living 
room.

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