<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 8, 2008, at 4:26 PM, plainfaceboy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div id="MailContainerBody" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" canvastabstop="true" name="Compose message area"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm planning on building a MythTV Box from scratch, and having done a bit of reading, here and elsewhere, I have a few questions I'm hoping someone might be able to help with.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I've not bought anything yet so am happy to be pointed in any reasonable direction.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I want one box (not back/front end), that I can also use as a general PC for internet and maybe some games for the kids etc.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">1. I would want to be able to play a CD without having to have the TV/monitor on, ideally knowing which track I was on - I'm assuming this is possible, but is it possible with all cases/remotes? Do only some of the cases with displays show CD track info? The cases with built in screens would push the price too high for me.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Make sure your case has a display that has well-supported linux drivers. I have an irtrans display with a driver that was a real pain to get working on x86_64, but compiled just fine under i386. If I had to do it again, I would have gone with something the standard LCDproc driver supports.</div><div><br></div><div>No idea on your other questions.</div><div><br></div><div>-Brad</div><div><br></div></body></html>