Re: [Freevo-users] Shuttle XPC series with Freevo

2003-07-03 Thread Paul McDermott
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:34, Kevin Barsby wrote: > >>4. NOISE: The SN41G2 features heat-pipe cooling, I've put in a low noise > >>CPU fan, but I still find the thing too noisy to leave on in the living > >>room all day. I'm now investigating options for the PSU and GPU fans > > Interesting, a

Re: [Freevo-users] Shuttle XPC series with Freevo

2003-07-02 Thread Trevor Phillips
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 16:34, Kevin Barsby wrote: > > I had read somewhere that people have had problems getting the nForce2 > chipset to work properly, but from your experiences it's possible, just > not a "standard" install. The video driver was the usual nVidia Linux driver - which is now a

Re: [Freevo-users] Shuttle XPC series with Freevo

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Barsby
Thanks for the responses guys. A couple of further comments: 4. NOISE: The SN41G2 features heat-pipe cooling, I've put in a low noise CPU fan, but I still find the thing too noisy to leave on in the living room all day. I'm now investigating options for the PSU and GPU fans Interesting, as th

Re: [Freevo-users] Shuttle XPC series with Freevo

2003-07-01 Thread Trevor Phillips
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 04:09, Paul McDermott wrote: > > I've implemented a Freevo system on a shuttle SN41G2. Main issues: I've also implemented Freevo on a SN41G2. Comments interspersed below. > 1. Getting a TV-in card to fit in the PCI slot. I've got an old generic > card that fitted, but I

Re: [Freevo-users] Shuttle XPC series with Freevo

2003-07-01 Thread Paul McDermott
Kevin, I've implemented a Freevo system on a shuttle SN41G2. Main issues: 1. Getting a TV-in card to fit in the PCI slot. I've got an old generic card that fitted, but I could imagine that others wouldn't. 2. Going through the process of installing the nVidia drivers. More complex than a common-o

[Freevo-users] Shuttle XPC series with Freevo

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin Barsby
Hi, Has anyone tried putting a Freevo system together using one of the Shuttle XPC series PCs (http://us.shuttle.com/product_mini.asp)? They generally have everything on board bar the TV card, leaving you to choose the CPU/Mem/Disk/DVD. I was looking in particular at the SK41G... Cheers Kev