I successfully netbooted Gentoo 2005.0 without modifying any hardware. 
While i had some lirc problems it ran mythtv fairly well... I'm loading
2005.1 now to see if I can get lirc working. Will keep you posted.

Vic

James Pattinson wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I am currently using minimyth on an EPIA-M as my frontend, and it
> generally works really well. However the connection to my TV is only
> Composite-out so the quality is not too hot (my TV doesn't do S-Video).
>
> I do have an Xbox running XBMC connected to my TV via SCART and the
> quality when playing videos is great so I'd like to investigate the
> possibility of using it as my front end. Of course another benefit of
> this would be that I get remote control functionality for free, as I'm
> using a wireless keyboard at the moment.
>
> However, most of the information I've found on the web is out of date,
> and the instructions at http://bit.blkbk.com/ refer to Xebian 1.0.3
> which I cannot locate at all.
>
> So with this in mind, can anyone share their experiences of setting
> this up? Can the xbox hardware handle the load? My back end is saving
> the DVB transport stream straight to disk and i'm not transcoding
> anything.
>
> Pros / Cons?
>
> Cheers!
>
> James
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