[mythtv-users] Frontend Upgrade
Paul Bender
pebender at san.rr.com
Sat Jun 16 18:15:09 UTC 2007
David Frascone wrote:
>
> Ok -- it's about time for me to upgrade my diskless frontend, so I need
> some help on some items:
>
> 1) I run diskless, and prefer as little noise as possible. I know that
> AMD makes a low power CPU that can be passivly cooled, but I've had
> trouble finding one from any of the normal search engines. (It's hard
> to put 15watts in the search). So -- does anyone have a link for a CPU
> / MB combo that can be passivly cooled? Built in video would also be
> nice -- as long as the whole combo can keep up with HD video playback.
> So -- does anyone have any newegg or other online vendor links?
While not fanless an AMD Athlon 64 Lima with an NVIDIA 6150 based
motherboard makes very little noise.
> 2) Lirc is a constant cause of issues for me. It just often fails, and
> my wife is not technologically savy enough to ssh in and kill
> mythfrontend. So -- she usually resorts to pushing reset. While this
> is fine on a diskless box -- it is unnecessary downtime. So -- what I
> would like is some input on cases that have enough controls to navigate
> back and kill mythfrontend. I guess a single "things are messed up"
> button would be ok -- but ideally it would be a set of arrows and a
> select. (And, maybe even an escape). Does this exist? (of course, the
> buttons need to be some kind of HID or something -- an IR transmitter
> wouldn't do so well, if lircd was hosed.
Why not remap the power button such that it restarts the mythfrontend?
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