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Jesse Guardiani wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Warren wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Jesse Guardiani wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This looks like a really nice candidate for a mythfrontend system to an
SDTV, possibly capable
of playing back HDTV at SDTV resolutions. I assume the OS is just loaded
on the HD? Or does
it use a ROM for booting?
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<pre wrap="">It's an OS on an HD. I have been trying to get one of them stable
enough to do exactly that. The added bonus of a keyboard and remote
control that are mapped to look like keyboard input without any
additional drivers is nice too, but the main problem is keeping the
damned thing stable. Removing the APM and ACPI drivers from the
kernel seems to help. I am going to try removing PCMCIA as well since
mine will be hardwired to my house network and I know that there have
been historical problems with PCMCIA on this motherboard.
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Let us know what result you get. BTW, how are you "hard wiring" it to
the network if not via the PCMCIA?
Does it have an ethernet port?
Also, you mentioned before that the RCA video input on the back isn't
connected to the hardware encoder.
What's it connected to then?
Thanks!
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You answered the ethernet port question (Realtek 8139 series to be more
specific). The video input IIRC is on the I2C bus and is available as
/dev/video1 (or one of those 0-2) through V4L. The ivtv cards
generally showed up as video3. Depending on the driver set used, the
Sigma chip was video1 and the direct input video0 or sometimes
visa-versa. I used to use softlinks so I could change them easily when
newer drivers were introduced.<br>
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