Is there any luck with booting mythbuntu directly off a flash drive,
and only using the atv as a frontend and limiting the amount linux
would have to touch a file system on the hard drive?  Or is the swap
just going to kill you anyway since there is a lack of ram in the
device?

On Mar 23, 12:33 pm, Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott D Davilla <[email protected]> writes:
>
>  >> Does anyone have any recomendations on what can be done to reduce the
>  >> power usage of the ATV while not in use?  Can you get the HD to spin
>  >> down, or even go to a standby mode that can be woken up by the IR
>  >> remote?
>
>  Scott> you can spin down the HD but linux will just spin it up again in 5-10
>  Scott> when it "touches" the filesystem. There is no way to get to standby
>  Scott> as the power supply is either on/off by the plug.
>
> laptop-mode helps here, but yeah.
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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