[mythtv-users] ASUS Pundit Questions

[José Orlando Pereira]

On Thursday 29 May 2003 14:00, matt at mattmarsh.net wrote:
>
> People seem to suggest that the VGA out on the
> Pundit does not perform as well as the SVideo
> out. Is that everyones experience?
>
> I had been hoping to use VGA out into a TV as
> I'd heard that often SVideo out will leave you
> with black borders and maybe even a green line
> down one side... do those issues occur with the
> SVideo out on the Pundit? Or is it an issue with
> the TV used rather than the device?

I had no trouble with neither of them.

> Has anyone experimented with remote controls for
> the Pundit? The one thing it does lack is an IR
> port :-( I guess I'll have to get an IR dongle
> and use lirc. Has anyone found a nice one that
> would look good next to the Pundit? Probably
> even harder as I'm in the UK :-(

I use the one bundled with the Pinnacle PCTV Pro. Not pretty, but small enough 
to hide in the surrounding furniture. :-)

BTW, beware of the size of PCI cards. The PCTV fits very tightly in the Pundit 
case.

> I also assume that there is going to be no way
> to turn on the Pundit via remote control?

Not that I know of.

> Does the Pundit hardware support any kind of
> hibernate/standby mode like laptops have? I was
> wondering if using that would give quicker
> startup/shutdown times than closing the machine
> down fully and booting up normally?

Try the software suspend patches. Although I still have to kill mythv during 
suspend to avoid lockups (both frontend and backend), it is still faster than 
a full reboot cycle. ACPI patches also work fine to make the power button 
call suspend instead of power off.

> And final question... how loud is it really? It's
> marketed as being quiet... but is it really?

It is indeed quiet. Just make sure you turn the "Quiet Fan" setting to On in 
BIOS setup. There is an annoying beep during POST which apparently cannot be 
turned off. Disconnecting the internal speaker might fix it.

-- 
Jose Orlando Pereira
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