The ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard would hardly seem to be a popular choice for building a MythTV system, so you may not find the following very useful.
I chose it, 1) to try the PCI Express features, and 2) because it has a lot of SATA connectors. It's an AMD64 board, and I also wanted to build a second MythTV system specifically for x86_64 architecture. And, it's all worked out very well. I compiled mythtv, ivtv, and a 2.6.12-rc6 kernel without any serious problems. The downsides are: lots of noise from the fans, and lack of support for x86_64 architecture (in some packages), which brings me to the subject - nvram-wakeup. I downloaded the tarball, nvram-wakeup-0.97.tar.bz2. There's a lot of README stuff to go through, almost enough to decide to leave the system running 24/7. But I pressed on and tried to compile it. That stops dead with an x86_64 error, so I removed the CCFLAGS item, "-mcpu=i686". Compile succeeds after that change. Later on, I found that the Debian folks had made that same change. There doesn't seem to be any "make install" step in any of the README's, so I just went ahead and ran it after running "make man". Everything seemed to get to the right place, so I tried the step in the README that says to try nvram-wakeup in debug mode. Sure enough, the A8N-SLI is not one of the boards that nvram-wakeup knows about yet. So, here's where I stopped and decided to post this message to see if anyone else has tried nvram-wakeup on the A8N-SLI. If you have, please reply to the mailing list. Since the chances are small that anyone at all is using nvram-wakeup on an A8N-SLI, I'll keep going with it, next thing to try is the "guess-helper" script. I'll post whatever I can find out about this software-motherboard combination. -- MM _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
