[mythtv-users] Calling all Acer Revo AR1600-U910H users

Johnny Walker johnnyjboss at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 00:42:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Scott Alfter <scott at alfter.us> wrote:
>> (Top-posting's bad...m'kay?)
>>
>> On 8 Feb 10 16:50, Michael Drons wrote:
>>>
>>> Can I get it without windows xp installed?
>>
>> Acer's website makes mention of systems with preinstalled Linux, and
>> different
>> (?) BIOS downloads are provided for systems that shipped with Linux vs.
>> systems
>> (like mine) that shipped with Windows.  I don't know if there actually is a
>> difference, or if anybody's currently selling them with Linux.  The one
>> Fry's
>> carries has Windows on it; I actually left it on there, shrunk its partition
>> with SysRescCD, and put Linux on it.
>>
>>> Whats the distro of choice on it?  All of my myth devices run gentoo
>>> today.
>>
>> I have Gentoo on mine; if you're familiar with it, I'd stick with it.  It
>> didn't take an inordinately long time to bring it up, though I went with a
>> more
>> minimalist setup than usual.  I'm using Ratpoison as the window manager, and
>> I
>> auto-login with this in /etc/conf.d/local.start:
>>
>> nohup su - mythtv -c startx 2>&1 >/dev/null &
>>
>>> Just to confirm, no built in IR receiver,  whats a good remote/usb
>>> receiver.
>>> I have a MCE combo and the remote is "cheap" feeling.
>>
>> I plugged in a Bluetooth dongle...one of the small ones that barely sticks
>> out from a USB port.  I'm still trying to get a Playstation 3 remote to work
>> reliably with it (the machine forgets about it after a while),
>
> I think that's a "feature' to save the batteries in the remote (from
> my brief reading on the subject)
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Speaking of Acer Revo 1600 mods - what wireless device should I order
for putting in the internal pci-e slot?


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