Hello! It is indeed quite reasonable. And I indeed am interested. So what do I do to obtain it? -- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Smith [mailto:joe@settoplinux.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:19 AM To: Gregg C Levine Cc: Coreboot Subject: Re: [coreboot] Set Top Boxes and composite (!) video out
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:53:33 -0400, "Gregg C Levine" hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Hello! Joseph I've been following your progress regarding these examples, both
on
your site, and here.
I have some to ask question: First; have you gotten to the point of
being
able to present any composite video out on that connector?
Yes we recently made some real break through's with intelfb in Linux, we figured we should get it running in Linux first and then it will be coreboot time, and it should be relatively simple to turn it into coreboot code.
Second; where did you obtain these units? Every time I check Amazon for them I get shocked by the prices they are quoting, it's as if they are trying to sell me a brand new never been opened first edition of something.
And yes I'll accept an answer off list if you feel that's best.
Funny. I remember when we first started hacking the RM4100, you could buy them on eBay for less than 5 dollars, too a lot of people they were just paper weights if they didn't want to pay the outrageous monthly subscription fee, then word got out that you could run Linux on them and then prices shot way up. Well, I would say the best places are eBay, Amazon, and Overstock.com, If you keep your eye out you could probably
find
one for under 50 dollars. I won't mention some of the other names they
sell
under but if you look on my site you will find them mentioned.
If your interested there is a guy on my site that is selling a box he started hacking (he just added a vga connector) for 10 dollars plus shipping:
http://www.settoplinux.org/index.php?title=Special:AWCforum&action=st%2F... %2Fmy
_RM4100_for_sale.
-- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org