Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:27:45 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PVR-150's infrared port... Message-ID: <459B22B1.3040701@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20070102200146.GD83431@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20070101202947.5a92d923@localhost> <20070102092741.GA93496@it.ca> <20070102200146.GD83431@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:27:41AM -0500, Paul Chvostek wrote: > >> Unless you're already partial to DeadRad, I'd recommend KnoppMyth R5E50 >> over MythDora 3.2 if you really must use Linux. Neither of these >> distros is perfect, but KnoppMyth is alot closer to being functional >> > > I wouldn't recommend either. A recent KnoppMyth would crash very reliably > on my amd64 box (with PCI-express card) within a few seconds of X starting. > I was able to boot into VESA 800x600 mode (instead of the nvidia driver) > and my pvr500 worked precisely 50% of the time, provided the system didn't > hang (which it did regularly). FreeBSD/i386 and multimedia/pvrxxx work > perfectly on the same box. > > -- Rick C. Petty > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I know knoppmyth was having some AMD64 issues not too long ago. I don't remember the details because my knoppmyth box isn't an AMD64, but I think they have been resolved since. (I looked at the changelog but didn't find a reference to it.) -mark
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