it is a good linux box. audio card is comparable to a slightly disabled sblive [though pumped for M$ EAX]. though as johannes notes, an external usb snd-card is the way to go. take the case off and you have a rackmountable 733+MHZ dvd playing PC with a great GL capable [GEM] card [once i can get hw accelleration wking] +whatever hdd for $EU200. seems to be a 64mb ram limit [unless happy about soldering in new ram] and haven't worked out the tvout to vga thing yet.
julian
checking linux for ps2 when they get around to sending me the dev kit.
julian
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 01:14:52 +0100 (MET) Johannes Taelman Johannes.Taelman@rug.ac.be wrote:
//Hi! // //The folks at xbox-linux.sourceforge.net hacked the microsoft xbox and made //a linux installer for it. I thought it could be a nice box for running pd //in installations and performances since it is small, cheap (250EUR), //reasonable performance (733MHz PIII, 64MB ram), and a basic but usefull //set of interfaces (4xUSB, 100baseTX ethernet, stereo sound output, //composite video output) and storage (10GB HD, dvd-rom). I went ahead and //bought an xbox, and installed a modchip. Installation went smooth, and pd //seems to run fine "out-of-the-box", but I haven't stressed or used it a //lot so far. // //The downsides (for installation and performance applications): //* the usb-ports are not of any standard shape (but with some tooling and //glueing I replaced the connectors with regular USB ones). //* the 3d/opengl acceleration of the geforce3-mutant inside is not //available (not good for GEM) //* no sound input (solvable via an usb-audio device) //* fan noise (more than my desktop PC) //* it does not read CDR's (I had immediate success with a CDRW), but //the mutated dvd-reader can be replaced with some extra modifications. // //So far it looks perfectly usable, but not as your main patch development //machine. // // j#|@ // // //_______________________________________________ //PD-list mailing list //PD-list@iem.kug.ac.at //http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list // //