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Skriven 2010-01-06 20:47:25 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13811 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: when i'm sixty-four
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Hello Maurice.

05 Jan 10 12:57, you wrote to me:

 >> TV cards, are a problem to get hold of here, and I never saw a
 >> PVR 150 on sale,

 MK> We've got one.  Still works great ... I think.  Paul has it in one of
 MK> his boxes.  Myself I was playing around with the older bt8xx cards up
 MK> to last week.  They work but the picture quality isn't that great on
 MK> the last one I got working (bt878 based).  I am satisfied and not
 MK> caring about TV decided to move on.

Yeah, well, what with the Soccer World Cup and all, we are being "kicked" to 
HD TV, so when I play with a TV card, again, it will need to be able to 
support HD TV. :-(

 >> gave the Leadtek 2000 (?) I did manage to find away the other
 >> day ... , was never really happy with it ...

 MK> I think we might have one of those.

Never really got it to work as it should have, it worked well in WINXP, and 
less well under Linux ... :-(

 MK> I never tried bluedot.  I prefer keeping build scripts individualized
 MK> ala slackware build scripts.  That way if anything needs adjusting it
 MK> doesn't screw up the entire build.

There is a lot to be said for that methodolgy ...

 MK> Understood.  Never tried one over an internetted connection but have
 MK> tried more beefier AV feeds over the wireless here and that works so I
 MK> know a 30fps webcam - or better camera - could be streamed without
 MK> much grief. The local networks are vastly superior.  :-)

Yeah, well, if I could get gigabit internet speeds here, or even 100mbps I'd 
be very much happier ...

 >> The board with the 640 on, I have not had any success, the other
 >> with the 524 sometimes boots,

 MK> Sounds like bios issues.  What boards?

Giga-byte GA-8I945G which has the 640 on, and a Foxconn P4M800P7MB has the 524 
on it ... , the Gigabyte board's BIOS is at revision 3 ... , no idea about the 
Foxconn.

 MK> Should work fine.  Same with SD cards in that card reader slot.  If
 MK> you need a ramdisk image and kernel for them let me know.  At the
 MK> moment the I have a 32M ramdisk booting off usb on the eeepc.  Up to
 MK> date too (kv 2.6.32.2).

Works fine, but the SD part of the card reader does not seem to work reliably 
... :-((

 MK> Which one?  I have four.  The ramdisk for usb booting, a new fangled C
 MK> only busybox based one I just started working on, 2thingsInk which is
 MK> purely console based but has g++ which means it can be used to build
 MK> Crowbait which is the full meal deal with xorg-7.4 etc.  Still haven't
 MK> brought seamonkey up to date on the eeepc but the pure 64 bit version
 MK> has the newest seamonkey.

The console based one with g++ ...

 MK> I'd recommend 2thingsInk.  You can always add the glitz later.

Agreed ...

 >> Can that talk to SKYPE,

 MK> I have no idea.  I have nobody to test any of this stuff with.

Had a look, seems that needs a sip proxy for numbers, which might mean that 
SKYPE talks to the proxy, and the proxy translates, then again, it might just 
work - not that I think I am that lucky ... :-)

 >> Linux users usually have too many darn choices

 MK> Right.  Too bad so few of them understand and make the exact wrong
 MK> choices and end up with something not all that different than a lame
 MK> windows box.

That can and does happen as well ... :-(

Russell

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