Juergen Pfennig wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2005 13:13, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > ... Maybe the frontend power is not > > turned-on for this card. This is usually done by switching some GPIO > > line. See frontend_init() in budget-av.c. > > The other way round would be *HORRIBLE*. I use the card in a server and I know > that on the primary side the power consumption goes up by 6 ... 8 Watts if > the card is installed. In other words: the card costs me 10 Euro for > electricity per year! > > I measured this because the KNC-1 caused problems with two of my barebone > systems (Asus/Sis651/P4 120 Watt Power Supply). These machines did not boot > reliably with the KNC-1 card (the boot process did not even start in these > cases). > > CAN WE TURN OFF FRONTEND POWER to reduce the power consumption? In my case > unloading the drivers does not reduce the power consumption of the server. We can - if you find out how it can be done with your card. ;-) Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin available at http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ --------------------------------------------------------
