[mythtv] Xbox hardware detection

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:41 +0200, Christian Wattengård wrote:
> On 7/16/07, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/16/07, Matthew Wire <devel at mrwire.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Anyone with Xbox hardware, could you take a look at your system and see if
> > > there is any way of identifying that the system is an Xbox?
> > >
> >
> > Ummm, I had a look around and whilst I don't really know what most of
> > them do, I did find mention of Xbox in cmdline.
> >
> > mythFE2:~# cat /proc/cmdline
> > root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 devfs=mount kbd-reset xbox=hdd
> 
> 
> I believe that's just the parameterline to the kernel on boot.
> 
> You should probably be able to detect the gpu chip using lspci or
> lshw. If you get a id from that one it should be unique since the gpu
> is a Xbox dedicated chip. But you would probably get a few different
> since it was changed once or twice on the different Xbox versions.
> 
> Another alternative is to check on the combination of hw. Decide that
> a 733MHz Celeron with 64Mb ram and NVidia graphics is unique enough to
> be classified as an Xbox.

You might also find something in the output of the dmidecode tool.

Ian.
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Ian Campbell

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