rodalpho Wrote:The nv7150 board works perfectly; I can vouch for it. If you can't get the intel decellerator to work, just pick up a $30 nvidia videocard from newegg. It'll definitely work.
I had a nice NVIDIA 8500 that I'd used before but it had a tall bracket on it. I've removed it and will ask MSI for a shortie as I'm told they will provide upon request.
In other news, I managed to find a commandline to get my MCE303's IRDA receiver working! First as posted above you need the IRTrans software from
http://www.irtrans.de/en/download/index.php but the commandline is pretty cryptic. Quite a bit of "unable to connect to port" sorts of responses. All of the examples I found pointed to things like /dev/tty/USBx including the manual but what's below worked for me and will hopefully assist others.
Code:
sudo ./irserver -debug_code -loglevel 4 /dev/ttyUSB0
This irserver software REPLACES Lircd and can apparently drive the VFD - not clear though. That above command turns on debug mode at max logging so obviously tweak it for your purposes - an example used by someone else can be found here ->
http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/ I'm noticing that he talks about a modified LCDproc for the display too but I've not started on that yet, I am hoping that the current LCDproc code can see this device now
I hope that this helps out others as this VFD appears to be used in a few places including some of the Zalman cases.
Anyway, it now sees my MCE remote codes and surprise surprise it also sees my MCE keyboard including the letter keys and mouse, no I've not gotten it to move my cursor yet or actually DO anything in XBMC but the codes are displayed on screen
Time for bed!