He uses the "s-video" output from the graphics card and the movies play really clearly - not so great for the normal desktop though. He has an infrared remote device which plugs into the serial port and can be programmed to his liking so all of the actions he needs to operate the "entertainment centre" can be controlled from the remote. The sound card is 6 channel so the movies sound great too.
Regards, Robert The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a slow puncture. -----Original Message----- From: elvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 4 August 2003 2:44 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Motherboard recommendations that's cool... how do the graphics look through your tv? are you piping it out through onboard graphics? how did you manage to get a remote working at the pc? wireless keyboard? --- "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Long story...... > >Son has birthday. Requests, as present, that parents pay for him to build a >computer entertainment centre. Parents ask for detailed proposal which >included father getting upgrade (mobo, cpu, ram). Son now plays movies from >the server onto TV with remote controlled Entertainment PC. (Much better >than X-Box) > >Problems with new mobo though (does not let one of the HD's coexist with >other drives, sound and NIC not detected by Knoppix or Gentoo) > >Problems now overcome (new HD, help from list to find linux drivers) > >Gentoo being installed now (does not take long with P4, 2.4GHz, 512Mb ram) > >Rob > > -----Original Message----- >From: elvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:37 p.m. >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations > >so you're selling a motherboard? > >--- "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Has anyone recently purchased a new P4 MOBO. >> >>I just bought an ALBATRON PX865PE PRO and found that neither the on-board >>sound nor on-board lan are detected by Knoppix (I know I should have done >>more research first). As well as this it does not like the different speeds >>of the 2 hard disks. >> >>So I would like to swap for a more Linux friendly mobo. >> >>Any recommendations? >> >>Rob > >_____________________________________________________________ ><a href="http://www.gamedev.net";>GameDev.net Email Service</a> - "Plenty of >1's and 0's" _____________________________________________________________ <a href="http://www.gamedev.net";>GameDev.net Email Service</a> - "Plenty of 1's and 0's"
