2014-06-21, 21:04
(2014-06-21, 16:23)rukusx7 Wrote: In my standalone OpenELEC setup, I have had success with the following peripherals:
HP wired mouse
HP wired keyboard
USB wireless Tronsmart TSM-01 air mouse
Samsung TV wireless USB adapter
Transcend 760 16gb USB flash drive
Sandisk Cruzer mirco 8GB flash drive
Western Digital mybook 1150 2TB (which its worth to mention, does not (always) return from its own suspend state when the chromebox is woken from suspend.)
Samsung LED TV UN46d6300
Also want to mention that if you use visualization when playing music, I've noticed that FishBMC and GOOM result in high CPU usage. ProjectM (although looks more intensive) uses the least CPU and possibly makes more use of the GPU. I'm not sure.
If anyone know of a linux distro they can recommend that suits our chipset/device, please let me know. I'd like something where its not necessary for me to manually update the kernel to keep up with latest stable kernel. Linux mint lost points because of this.
This was posted within OpenELEC with chromium-browser.
I would suggest Fedora 20 (I'm using KDE Spin + Openbox/XBMC). I tested various linux distros and Fedora was the most stable for me. Also it boots faster than any other distro (including OpenELEC). I'm running XBMC in Openbox (using autostart on boot) and while it uses a little more memory (11% vs 5% for OpenELEC) it allows me to run Steam & Chromium from inside XBMC without headaches. Also many Steam games run quite well on celeron. Tested with DOTA2, HL2:EP2, DofD & TF2.