On 13 Jul 2005 15:31:58 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 7/13/05, Reza Naima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i'm currently using an x-box which seems grossly underpowered. does > >> anyone have any suggestions for a good cheap front-end-only box? > >> Something that's good looking. I've got an hdtv w/ vga&dvi inputs. > >> > >> thanks, > >> reza > >> > > > >As John mentioned I like my Pundit-Rs. I have 4 of them. Very nice. > >Reasonable quiet, but not silent. The only problem I'm having with > >MythTV right now is that I cannot keep the StreamZap remotes I bought > >working with Myth. The work for a day and then stop. I think this is > >more an lirc problem but it's an issue you might want to think about > >before you buy. > > > Funny you should mention that. You helped me get mine working last > night but when I went up this morning to use it, it was frozen. i did > a cold reboot and it was fine. later in the day it was frozen again. > I did a WARM boot and it was also fine. I've been booting a lot today > figuring out the X Server/PVR-350 tv-out issue (no luck yet)
Hi Jim, I'm glad if any of the info/ideas I gave you helped. The StreamZap problem, and this is specifically a StreamZap comment, is supposedly known and a fix was put into lirc CVS. I built that and it didn't work for me at first. My Gentoo machines are udev and it appeared that somethign wasn't creating all the devices required to make it work. However I found that if I installed an older lirc from portage and then built the new lirc on top of it that it would work for a day, but after rebooting it was gone. Confusing... > > > > >Anyway, I own 4 and I'd buy 4 more today if I needed to, but ONLY for > >frontend ONLY. The PVR-xxx cards do not fit in them easily so they are > >of no value to me as backend machines. > > > >SATA performance is low right now. > > do they really need much of a disk since they are a front end? Have > you got a pointer handy to them so I can look at specs? i might need > a couple of front end machines for this box also > No. In fact on my frontend only SATA & PATA PUndit-R machines I'v einstalled laptoptools and I spin the drives down once mythfrontend is up and running. The machines seem happy with only 256MB running fluxbox and mythfrontend. The machines are pretty minimalistic but quite nice for watching TV. For a little while I could actually shut the machine down with the remote control also. That was nice when I didn't want to get out of bed at the end of the day. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
