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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=391111217-29012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks for the IR info.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brett
Kosinski<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 26, 2007 6:23 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Discussion about mythtv<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mythtv-users] Computer case
recoomendations<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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Design flaw: the front plate (heavy brushed aluminium) is NOT<BR>grounded. In
theory this should be ok because it's covered with a <BR>varnish so it's
isolated from you, but in practice, the tiny recessed<BR>bevels of the front
panel buttons is not varnished (I guess the bevel<BR>was made after the
varnish had been applied). In my carpeted<BR>living-room, the
computer would crash -hard- every time my finger got <BR>close to the power
button, whereas it had worked fine in my computer<BR>lab. After
grounding the front panel, this problem disappeared.<BR>Unacceptable in such
an expensive case, IMHO.</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Weird, I've *never* had this problem. I wonder if this was a bad
unit? <BR></DIV><BR>
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Design flaw: the LCD display area indeed has space so you can add your<BR>own
IR receiver, and it's not difficult to do. However, the glass
<BR>window in front of it is covered with IR-opaque paint. Duh...</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Yeah, that ticked me off, too. A bit of high-grit sandpaper
solved that problem, though.<BR></DIV><BR>
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Design flaw: the case ventilates extremely well, however it's a bit<BR>noisier
than I was led to believe by the ads. Especially
noticeable<BR>during the quiet passages of a movie. I'm thinking
of disconnecting <BR>one of the two case fans (they're the source
of the noise. My heatsink<BR>fan is silent).</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Well, keep in mind, the fans are multi-speed. The first thing
that should be done is to slow them down (though, make sure to monitor case
temp, to make sure ventilation is still adequate). At top speed, they do
put out a bit of noise (though they're still remarkably quiet), however given
their diameter, you can probably run them at low speed without a problem.
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Annoyance: there's a HUGE volume-type button on the front of the case<BR>that
I can't use because there is no Linux driver for it and no<BR>information is
available (that I could find) to write
one.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>This works just fine in Linux. It shows up
as an imon IR receiver, and so you can use lirc to receive events from it.
See this thread for details: <BR><BR><A
href="http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3280">http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3280</A><BR><BR>As
for this:<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="DIRECTION: ltr">What remote, and IR setup are you using with this
case? <BR></DIV><SPAN class=q></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><SPAN class=q>I grabbed a
serial receiver from <A
href="http://www.irblaster.info">http://www.irblaster.info</A>. It's small
enough to fit behind the glass of the VFD, and the cable is long enough that I
could run it under the DVD player and into the case, where I connected it to an
onboard serial port (I scavanged a header connector from an old serial port
bracket). <BR></SPAN><BR>Brett. </BODY></HTML>