Set Top Boxes and composite (!) video out

[Gregg C Levine]

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?

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.
--
Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi

[Joseph Smith]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:53:33 -0400, "Gregg C Levine"
<[e-mail]> 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%2Fid58....

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
It is indeed quite reasonable. And I indeed am interested. So what do I do
to obtain it?
--
Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Smith [mailto:[e-mail]]
> 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"
> <[e-mail]> 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%2Fid58
%2Fmy
> _RM4100_for_sale.