--- Tom Lichti wrote: > Phill Edwards wrote: > >>Well, after spending 4 days on it, I've got the > packages installed > >>again, on a fresh install of Xebian. I had to > update almost the complete > >>system toget to this point, so I have no idea if X > will work when I get > >>home. I suspect not, but I've got fingers crossed > again... > >> > >>If this doesn't work, anyone want to buy an Xbox? > :) > >Don't despair. There's always xbmcmythtv on > sourceforge. It's not as > >feature rich as mythfrontend but it doesn't involve > installing any > >linux on the Xbox. All you need is Xbox Media > Centre. I use it and > >it's fine if all you need it for is playback. > My plan was to use it as a complete front end, and > move the current > FE/BE into a pure BE role, but that doesn't look > like it's going to > happen. I now, again, have a setup with working > Myth, but non-working X. > It appears that I cannot have both, which kind of > defeats the purpose. > At least I can play games on it.
I hope that I can provide a silver lining to this cloud. I have got my xBox running Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel and xOrg running as a stutter free mythfrontend. It works fine as long as I run an xterm, running top, in the background. This isn't a perfect work around, however, since the xterm is behind the mythfrontend window it's invisible. Note that my xBox has 128 MB RAM curtesy of www.xboxrepairguide.com and I also stuck a heatsink on the nVidia chip. I'm also running diskless except for a local FatX swap of 256MB. This means that I can still use the xBox for games by booting to the native BIOS instead of Cromwell. I have a SmartXX and am very impressed with their features. My only problem is that the xBox is a little noisy, simple to fix by replacing the fan, and I'm yet to get the xBox remote to work. Since I have a RF keyboard/mouse I'm very happy with the current setup although my wife would really like the remote to work. ----------------------------------------------------- | o | | _ /<_ | |(_)>(_) | |Ben Dash | |Ask free questions - http://bensqanda.blogspot.com | |My Blog - http://bensdailythoughts.blogspot.com | |Info - http://bensinformationstation.blogspot.com | |Workouts - http://bensworkouts.blogspot.com | ----------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
