On 6/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Bender</b> <<a href="mailto:pebender@san.rr.com">pebender@san.rr.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
David Frascone wrote:<br>><br>> Ok -- it's about time for me to upgrade my diskless frontend, so I need<br>> some help on some items:<br>><br>> 1) I run diskless, and prefer as little noise as possible. I know that
<br>> AMD makes a low power CPU that can be passivly cooled, but I've had<br>> trouble finding one from any of the normal search engines. (It's hard<br>> to put 15watts in the search). So -- does anyone have a link for a CPU
<br>> / MB combo that can be passivly cooled? Built in video would also be<br>> nice -- as long as the whole combo can keep up with HD video playback.<br>> So -- does anyone have any newegg or other online vendor links?
<br><br>While not fanless an AMD Athlon 64 Lima with an NVIDIA 6150 based<br>motherboard makes very little noise.</blockquote><div><br>Cool -- I'll start looking for that -- does that video output dvi? My LDC accepts VGA, but at a lower resolution.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 2) Lirc is a constant cause of issues for me. It just often fails, and<br>
> my wife is not technologically savy enough to ssh in and kill<br>> mythfrontend. So -- she usually resorts to pushing reset. While this<br>> is fine on a diskless box -- it is unnecessary downtime. So -- what I
<br>> would like is some input on cases that have enough controls to navigate<br>> back and kill mythfrontend. I guess a single "things are messed up"<br>> button would be ok -- but ideally it would be a set of arrows and a
<br>> select. (And, maybe even an escape). Does this exist? (of course, the<br>> buttons need to be some kind of HID or something -- an IR transmitter<br>> wouldn't do so well, if lircd was hosed.<br><br>Why not remap the power button such that it restarts the mythfrontend?
</blockquote><div><br>I've already done that -- but -- some cases have really cool frontend buttons -- I was hoping someone had used one, and had some insight / recommendations.<br><br>-Dave<br><br></div><br></div>--
<br>David Frascone<br><br>Oxymoron: Safe Sex.