[mythtv-users] Ion/ion2 and hdaudio

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Sep 24 02:12:34 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:36:07PM +0200, Ma Begaj wrote:
> 2010/9/23 jedi <jedi at mishnet.org>:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:33:22PM +0200, Ma Begaj wrote:
> >> > On Thursday, September 23, 2010, Ma Begaj <derliebegott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> Will either ion or ion2 let you do 7.1 PCM out via hdmi in Linux for
> >> >>> blu ray etc playback?
> >> >>
> >> >> just fyi before you maybe buy something:
> >> >>
> >> >> there is no support for ION2 (optimus= on Linux at all. if the
> >> >> nettop/netbook has a
> >> >> hardware switch, you might be able to turn off nvidia chip and use only intel.
> >> >> _______________________________________________
> >> >
> >> > There's an entire huge thread about people using the zotac ion2 boxes
> >> > and even getting advanced 2x to work. What makes you think there's no
> >> > support?
> >>
> >>
> >> http://google.com/search?q=nvidia+optimus+linux
> >>
> >> my mistake, I was not clear enough. I was talking about nvidia optimus.
> >
> >    I am not sure anyone here would view that as a loss...
> >
> >    If I had the choice, I would keep the nvidia part on full time and
> > completely disable the intel one.
> 
> 
> only if you use that computer exclusively for mythtv or something similar.

    Even as a general purpose part, nvidia seems better.

    I would be much more interested in running an obsolete nvidia part if it
came down to a question of battery life.

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