I didn't have much luck getting this to work on my x86 shuttle box. There is a script to try to generate a config for unknown motherboards. It is called guess-helper. Expect to reboot many times, and make changes to you bios each time.
Good luck, Frederick Martin On 7/27/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
