[PD] pd on xbox-linux

[delire]

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 at 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#|@
//
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