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<div>Did you have any problems getting the IR receiver working with lirc?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David George</b> <<a href="mailto:david@thegeorges.us">david@thegeorges.us</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I saw several messages about people looking at this box from newegg and<br>thought I would post my first impression here in case it helps anyone.
<br><br>I have only been using it about two days now, but it looks like a good<br>deal so far. I am using Fedora Core 6 with latest updates running myth<br>packages from atrpms. I have a 65w AMD x2 4600+. 1080i HD playback
<br>takes about 50% on one core, other core barely touched. 720p playback<br>takes about 65% on one core. This is a frontend only. The 4 HD tuners<br>and PVR-500 for directv input on on a dedicated backend.<br><br>The memory card reader works out of the box. No special packages. I
<br>have only tested SmartMedia as that is what my camera has.<br><br>I don't have the VFD working yet, but I haven't had much time to spend<br>on this yet. It is a Futaba (I think) module and is connected to the
<br>motherboard via internal USB connecter.<br><br>It also looks like it has built-in WLAN also via USB, but I have not<br>tested this yet.<br><br>The sounds works great. In order to use the SPDIF outout with mythtv I<br>
had to set the audio device to ALSA:plughw otherwise lots of nasty<br>sounding noise. Ignore the error about no Master control. Alsamixer<br>only shows a PCM control.<br><br>DVD works fine. I just happened to have a Panasonic slot load for my
<br>mini HD frontend I was working on a couple of years ago. The eject<br>button lines up fine.<br><br>Case is very cool to touch except near power supply, but exhaust fan air<br>is cool so case is doing its function as heat sink very well. CPU
<br>exhaust is also cool. I bought the Dynatron low-profile CPU cooler<br>which is very loud, but settings in BIOS helped that greatly (look for<br>CPU fan control). Looking at NewEgg's site later I saw that Hiper also
<br>makes a low-profile CPU cooler, so I will probably get that also and try it.<br><br>There is an annoying error about USB hub port not being enabled. I'll<br>look into that later as it doesn't seem to be affecting how I use the box.
<br><br>That is about it for now. Using the Nvidia 9755 (?) drivers for video<br>doing DVI-D to a Westinghouse 1920x1080p 37" LCD.<br><br>So far very impressed. If you are thinking about getting one, I<br>definitely recommend the 65w dual-core AMD processors. No need to get
<br>the 4600+ like I did. I will post results of lowering my clock, etc<br>later. Also guess I should mention I am running i686 version of Fedora<br>Core 6, not the x86_64 version.<br><br>--<br>David<br><br>_______________________________________________
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