<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarod Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jarod@wilsonet.com
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On Wednesday 21 March 2007 17:16:25 Michael Freeman wrote:<br>> On 3/21/07, Jarod Wilson <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jarod@wilsonet.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Sunday 11 March 2007 22:36:26 Byron Poland wrote:
<br>> > > On 2/26/07, Jarod Wilson <<a href="mailto:lists@wilsonet.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lists@wilsonet.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > > Another follow-up... Until earlier tonight, my current frontend box
<br>> > > > actually had 2GB of RAM in it. I dropped it down to 1GB, and with
<br>> > > > blootube-wide as my GUI theme at 1920x1080p, swapping has returned.<br>> > > > Playback is still generally smooth, but doesn't seem to start up as<br>> > > > instantaneously. Its especially noticeable exiting a recording and/or
<br>> > > > the recordings screen, when it takes a second or two for the whole<br>> > > > screen to repaint and the hard drive led flashes like mad. I'm now<br>> > > > debating getting 2GB of RAM for my duo mini instead of just 1GB...
<br>> > ><br>> > > Any word on how the 1.66 duo did outputing to 1080p? (with Myth on<br>> > > Linux or OSX) I'm thinking of getting one.<br>> ><br>> > Been tied up with other stuff, the mini has just been sitting around
<br>> > doing nothing for the pas two weeks. Finally got the memory ordered late<br>> > last week,<br>> > supposed to be here today...<br>><br>> I put a T7200 in my former Core Solo Mini and got Gentoo on it.
<br>> Playing the season premiere of 24 over the network from my current active<br>> master backend worked really smoothly....according to top, one core was<br>> pegged by X and the other was at 30% - used by mythfrontend.
<br>> IIRC, this was 720p.<br>><br>> Any suggestions as to what I might have messed up to make X suck down so<br>> much CPU?<br>> It seems somewhat high.<br><br>Which X driver are you using there? i810 or intel? You want the intel driver.
<br>I'm using the latest and greatest with xorg 7.2-ish.<br><br>As for my progress... I got the 2GB of RAM into my mini last night, and at<br>1680x1050 resolution, playback of both 720p and 1080i stuff looks damned<br>
good. Didn't check cpu usage, but I doubt its all that different than before,<br>likely just less iowait from swapping. Going to hook it up to my 1080p HDTV<br>tonight to see how it fares there...<br><br>--<br>Jarod Wilson
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Hmm...performance is fine even with 1 core pegged...but Gentoo doesn't have an unmasked ebuild for the intel driver<br>And the raw driver from the xorg site complains about neeeding xorg-server >=
1.3 for modesetting code...no gentoo ebuild for that either<br>Could I somehow shoehorn the driver from 7.1 on and not have to use what appears to be bleeding edge code?<br>