--- Tom Lichti wrote: > Ben Dash wrote: > >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. > > > Any chance you could detail how you got to this > point? I am running 2.4 > kernel with xorg, and it doesn't appear to want to > play nice.
I didn't really have to do anything spectacluar beyond follow the various Gentoo howtos. The only tricky bit was learning how diskless Etherboot works and setting that up properly, and the kernel has to have the "kbd-reset" boot option specified otherwise the USB gets messed up due to IRQ 1 being stolen by something else. > > >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. > I saw that post originally, and although odd, if it > works, that's the > main thing. > >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. > I wouldn't mind a memory upgrade, I'll have to check > that out. You > couldn't use the loopback filesystem, or chose not > to? I am, and can > still run games without any problem. I decided to go with diskless because I wanted minimal change to the local HDD. I may get a 2nd xBox frontend at some future point and by going Read Only diskless I can run multiple xBox frontends from the same filesystem image in parallel. It's not read only yet, but it will be eventually. > >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. > That I would have to fix for it to be a 'seamless > upgrade'... :) I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually :-) I'm going to write a detailed howto at some point. It's just a question of finding the time. I had a couple of weeks to get to the point which I'm at while my wife and 18 month old daughter were visiting relatives. Now that they are back home I'm sure that you can understand that time is in short supply, and rightly so :-) ----------------------------------------------------- | 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! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
