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Mercury Morris wrote:
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/05, <b
class="gmail_sendername">michel moalem</b> <<a
href="mailto:mmoalem@mail2producer.com">mmoalem@mail2producer.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
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<div>hi there all<br>
i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday
for the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems
allready. However before i will start takling the problems i
encountered running some of the options i would like to know if there
is a way if running the mythtv box (either under this distro or
another) so that it boots much quicker. I have tried GeeXBox as well
and while it is short on many features compare to mythtv it is booting
extremly quickly once installed on the HD (well quick enogh for my wife
not to nag me about getting a dvd player instead...)<br>
so please any advice?<br>
cheers<br>
michel </div>
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Others have suggested that you leave your system on all the time, and
that's what I did as soon as I got the system up and running in daily
recording.<br>
<br>
But it didn't take long to find that the noise of the computer bothered
me when I read the paper, listened to the radio, and stuff like
that. So, I installed nvram-wakeup. Once you have your
MythTV system running more or less like the VCRs do (come on when it's
time to record, record, then shut off), it's quite easy to specify how
long in advance you want the machine to power on.<br>
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I have mine set to three (3) minutes, but it could be set to anything
(I think).<br>
So, if you know that you want to use your MythTV system around say, 5pm,<br>
you could set the various parameters and have the system power/boot up
well in advance. When you sat down at 5pm, the machine would be
up and running, waiting for whatever pleasure you have in mind.<br>
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-- <br>
MM<br>
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<font face="Arial"> Is there not a suspend mode that Linux can take
advantage of? I know that my Apple PowerBook wakes from a sleep and is
COMPLETELY ready (not that Windows' "show you the desktop, but have the
hard disk grinding away in the background" mode) to use in 3 seconds
when I open the lid.<br>
Or... Can you not cache all of the processing that takes place
during a boot, write it to the disk, and recover it on reboot. You
would need a key sequence to override the "boot from cache" process for
when you recompile a kernel, or change hardware. It seems to me that
someone would have already built a tool for this already.</font><br>
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