[mythtv-users] XBox with root via NFS?

Victor sphing at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 09:35:54 EST 2005


Shallax, gentoox developer, has a couple really good utilities to
control the hardware, including a utility to quiet the fan down from 20%
all the way to 100%... you could play with it and see if thats whats
causing the noise. The fan is hands down the loudest component of the xbox.

Vic

Ben Dash wrote:

>I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little
>noisy and eventually I'll replace it with a quieter
>one, however, I had no idea that the hard drive was a
>noise problem.  Obviously I can't hear anything above
>the noise of the fan currently.  If the hard drive
>becomes a problem I'll probably replace it with a
>seagate barracuda since I've had good experiences with
>them and find them to be completely silent.
>
>I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to
>xboxrepairguide.com  and I was curious how well you
>box was working with just the 64MB, or are you merely
>talking about your future plans.
>
>--- chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
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>>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash
>>wrote:
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>>>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard
>>>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file
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>>on
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>>>hda50.  The swap file doesn't effect the native
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>>xBox
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>>>functions.
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>>If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps
>>with the help of 
>>additional installed RAM) then I could shut down the
>>drive, gaining a 
>>50-75% reduction in ambient noise.  The noise from
>>the XBox isn't a 
>>problem when playing games since they tend to be
>>loud anyway, but it's 
>>a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet
>>recording.
>>
>>I figure having a slow swap would make navigating
>>the menus painful and 
>>would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm
>>actually watching 
>>TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going
>>on.
>>
>>I was hoping someone on here would have already
>>tried it and could tell 
>>me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't
>>work so I don't spend 
>>a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the
>>wheel.
>>
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