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Doesn't look like a good candidate to me.
The overall specs are no better than an xbox so the added overhead of linux would surely exhibit poorer performance. Not to mention the Intel 82830 graphics chip only supports OpenGL 1.1 when our minimum requirement is OpenGL 2.0 and I don't see any reference to pixel shaders in the Intel documentation.
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Shame ;-) It comes with a remote too and some people run something called Zenslag but I also posted in the Zenega Forum ... If I find anything I keep you updated ;-)
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s/requirement/recommendation
Try it on something <1.5. You'll cry.
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Just wanted to post an update.
As stated by the Intel page the 830M now features OpenGL 1.3 with a recent IEGD driver.
My experiments so far show up that the S100 seems to be nearly enough to run XBMC.
The biggest problem ist that XBMC caches the next MP3 during playback.
This cache is too much for the 128 megs of RAM.
When i add a swap file on USB it is working better.
I'm currently on creating a minized linux version to make it possible to run XBMC on the S100/Zenega.
Is it possible to leave some things out of XBMC during compiling to save memory?
At least everything related DVD drive handling would be nice.
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Sorry, not from my side.
XBMC still comes in one block, so i gave up to experimenting with it.
My programming skills are not enough to fix it by myself.
Sorry.
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I just tried XBMC_Live-9.04.1 on the T-Online Vision S100 box, but it does not start up the graphical user interface. It seems to be unable to switch into graphics mode, only the command line is displayed.
Is there a way to enable the old Intel graphics chip and use a reduced theme?
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I think you'Re out of luck here. The hardware specs of the s100 are really below low for any use with xbmc. You're better off trying something not as fancy but simple like mms. See mymediasystem.org.
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Would it be worth my time trying the new openElec ?
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@OpenElec: Sound interesting.
That's what I intended to do too:
Build a small distri that let's enough resources free on the S100 to let do those OpenGL things in software (1080p will still be impossible, but at least SD content and MP3 playing should work).
I have just put my S100 (and working one) back onto my desktop to test it out.
By the way:
I'm not a programmer, but is it perhaps possible to build a kind of stub driver for the intel chipset?
It should return just true on all OpenGL 2.0 blendings and such.
So we may have a worse look and feel, but the CPU should have less load then.
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Hi everybody...
little update on this topic: I replaced the DOM on this box by a IDE-cable and connected an old 200G IDE HD. I used Debian "wheezy" and with some little linux tricks it is running!
So if you still have your boxes.... give it a try!
Gingupin
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Hallo Gingupin,
could you please give me a little bit more help about "...some little linux tricks..." (or even provide a copy of your system)?
Would be very thankfull!
You can contact me (in germam) via PM/eMail, if you like...
Thanks
tschennings
