Re: [Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen Rowles
Mark, The problems with 1080i 1080p that the current eeeBox (B202) has are well known. If you google for B204 or B206 you will see the announcements for the new models. These should have enough grunt to deal with 1080p (well I hope so...) Stephen D Problem is it is an ATI card, and at

Re: [Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Davies
You can get (and pretty cheaply...) DVI to HDMI cables. This solves the problem of searching for reasonably priced graphics cards with a HDMI conector. I use a 5m one to connect my Macbook to the Camera Clubs 1080p projector. That said, the next generation of eeeBox (B204/B206) is supposedly

Re: [Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
You can get (and pretty cheaply...) DVI to HDMI cables. This solves the problem of searching for reasonably priced graphics cards with a HDMI conector. I use a 5m one to connect my Macbook to the Camera Clubs 1080p projector. That said, the next generation of eeeBox (B204/B206) is supposedly

Re: [Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-18 Thread Stuart Sears
Stephen Rowles wrote: [stuff about HDMI] Does anyone know of any video / sound card pairs that fit the bill, and most importantly actually work on Linux! not exactly what you asked for, but I couldn't avoid mentioning this: http://beagleboard.org/ there are some amazingly cool videos of it

[Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-17 Thread Stephen Rowles
All, I would like to use HDMI output to get my Linux media centre working on an LCD TV. (I don't have the TV yet though!). What I want to do is to do away with my expensive and small media centre PC and have a high powered PC which can sit in the understairs cupboard, using nice big low noise