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Title: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx2k on April 03, 2009, 11:14:37 am
I was yesterday at "Mediamarkt" (for those not living in europe, it's a brand selling electronic devices, music, etc...), and I saw the Asus eeebox b202 at 199€.

I thought, it was quite cheap but I decided to ask first how it runs as MD, and which resolution would you recommend.

Would you buy it, or would you wait for ION to come out?

BTW, I saw it in Zaragoza, Spain; I don't know if mediamarkt  offers are the same in every country in Europe, or even in all the shops in the same country, but maybe this helps someone thinking about buying a new md in Europe.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 03, 2009, 12:07:01 pm
I was yesterday at "Mediamarkt" (for those not living in europe, it's a brand selling electronic devices, music, etc...), and I saw the Asus eeebox b202 at 199€.

I thought, it was quite cheap but I decided to ask first how it runs as MD, and which resolution would you recommend.

Would you buy it, or would you wait for ION to come out?

BTW, I saw it in Zaragoza, Spain; I don't know if mediamarkt  offers are the same in every country in Europe, or even in all the shops in the same country, but maybe this helps someone thinking about buying a new md in Europe.

There are several ASUS Eee Box models now;

- Eee Box B202 (original model with ATOM270, i945 chipset & GMA950 GPU)
- Eee Box B206 (new model with ATOM270 & ATI Radion HD3450 GPU, Bluetooth, Wireless Kbd/Mouse)

I would imagine the unit you saw was a B202 and 199€ is pretty good price. The Eee Box B202 is a good MD and works well at upto 720p with SD resolution MPEG2 video content. The B206 is technically more capable because of its ATI GPU, HDMI out etc and will cost approx. 80€ more. Because the B206 has an ATI GPU it is not currently PnP out of the box... but in our tests it is performing very nicely in UI2 + Overlay once drivers and xorg have been tweaked etc.

So I would say you could do a lot worse than choose the B202...and who knows when the Ion will appear...

All the best

Andrew
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: b4rney on April 03, 2009, 12:12:59 pm
I agree with Andrew. I have been running an Asus B202 as an MD and it is proving very stable. At that price it is very good value.

I recommend it.
Barney
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 03, 2009, 04:44:15 pm
I just picked one up for $335.92 CAD which is 201.68 € according to google.  Once I get it working I'll post my setup.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 04, 2009, 03:11:52 pm
I just picked one up for $335.92 CAD which is 201.68 € according to google.  Once I get it working I'll post my setup.

You can look at these Wiki articles on what you need to do to get the Eee Box B202 working;

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ASUS_eee_box_b202_setup (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ASUS_eee_box_b202_setup)

All the best

Andrew

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Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 04, 2009, 05:10:56 pm
You can look at these Wiki articles on what you need to do to get the Eee Box B202 working;

Thanks Andrew, I've been up to my eyeballs in those articles for about a day now.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: patmankn on April 04, 2009, 09:11:44 pm
Alx9r.... where the hell to you live, that you can get a b202 for just 200 bucks (cheapest one on geizhals.at is about 289€? Grab one for me too ;O)
Good look with the your new toy..

Pat
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 04, 2009, 09:34:44 pm
Alx9r.... where the hell to you live, that you can get a b202 for just 200 bucks

Canada.  price was $335 CAD (see my earlier post).

Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: Viking on April 04, 2009, 09:35:53 pm
Hallo Andrew,
but in our tests it is performing very nicely in UI2 + Overlay once drivers and xorg have been tweaked etc.

What tweaking can help here ? Could you please post what you did.
The last time I tested the UI2 overlay was VERY slow - and not usable. With UI1 it would work.

My GA-MA78GM-S2H (AMD 780G chip) also has an onboard ATI videocard and maybe I could get that running.

Greetings
Viking

Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: patmankn on April 04, 2009, 09:38:42 pm
Alx9r.... where the hell to you live, that you can get a b202 for just 200 bucks

Canada.  price was $335 CAD (see my earlier post).



Sorry alx9r, i meant which "mediamarkt" alx2k went to... i just got confused with your alx* ;O)
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx2k on April 04, 2009, 09:40:59 pm
Well, looks like 2 different posters with so similar nickname participate on this topic  ;)

I must say thanks to your comments I bought the b202 on mediamarkt this afternoon.

I already configured the windows xp that comes on it, and I'll try to configure linuxmce tomorrow... (thanks for the wiki link  ;))

About your post patmankn, I belive that alx9r got his b202 in Canada for 335,92 CAD, which converts to 201,68€.

As I said on my first post, I found the b202 at 199,99 € on mediamarkt.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx2k on April 04, 2009, 09:43:04 pm
Zaragoza, Spain.

But I don't know if they have the same offers all across Europe.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: patmankn on April 04, 2009, 09:49:30 pm
alx2k, thanks for the info. I just forgot, that mediamarkt acts europe wide, not just in old germany. Spain is a little bit too far away... still, good luck! ;O)

Pat

P.s. maybe we get this offer here as well... some time ;O)
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 04, 2009, 09:57:25 pm
Hallo Andrew,
but in our tests it is performing very nicely in UI2 + Overlay once drivers and xorg have been tweaked etc.

What tweaking can help here ? Could you please post what you did.
The last time I tested the UI2 overlay was VERY slow - and not usable. With UI1 it would work.

My GA-MA78GM-S2H (AMD 780G chip) also has an onboard ATI videocard and maybe I could get that running.

Greetings
Viking



Well we update to the current fglrx driver and thats about it...

I cant access the Core that our ATI MD's are booted currently from home tonight...but on Monday i will post the xorg.conf from one of our HD3450 based MD's and also the version of the ATI driver we are using.

All the best

Andrew

PS remind me on Monday if i have not posted anything here ;-)
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: pigdog on April 04, 2009, 11:05:51 pm
Hi,

I've been waiting for information on the Acer Hornet.

Rumours are HDMI and cheap.

Suppose to have (rumours again) information released this month but don't quote me.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 06, 2009, 08:18:33 am
I now have the eee box b202 working with my system. 

Here are the hitches I encountered:
   * There is an issue with the NIC that prevents automatic setup as a diskless media director.  There are reports that this is fixed in 0810. (yay!!)
   * The workaround for the NIC problem (see http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ASUS_eee_box_b202_setup (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ASUS_eee_box_b202_setup)) only works if the core is running the i386 version.  My core was running the AMD64 version.  I am now running the i386 version on my core.  This change was a blessing unto itself -- my core is now more responsive and crashes less.
   * The eee box would boot to a black screen.  Using the xorg.conf from http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6847.msg42485#msg42485 fixed this.
   * connecting the eee box to my aquos tv with a DVI=>HDMI cable produced black flashing (see http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6901.msg50757#msg50757).  I am using 720p VGA instead.
   * I was not able to get a resolution higher than 720p working.
   * The eee box would lock up once the on-screen orbiter was activated.  Setting the photo screen saver to "static" mode reduced lockups dramatically.
   * frequently the eee box isn't able to pxeboot.  the only solution that I have found is to delete the media director from the admin page and recreate it.  I wrote a shell script that does a bunch of the heavy lifting required for the NIC workaround.

Performance:
   * DVD rips playback flawlessly.
   * Some 720p media plays almost flawlessly.  I have a few 720p DivX nature shows that playback perfectly except on some scenes with moving patterns.
   * Other 720p content cannot be played.  The troublemakers all seem to use the MPEG4ISO codec.  Many of these same files also push the limits of my M2NPV-VM media director.
   * I was not able to get any 1080p content to play.

The eee box is small and inexpensive.  My goal was to come up with a media director setup for the bedroom that was unobtrusive.  The eee box definitely does the job.  The whole unit and cabling mounts cleanly behind my TV.  The network and power cables come through the wall, so it is a really clean setup.  In fact, no cables are visible.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the eee box even if it chokes on some HD content.  Hopefully this helps someone make a decision.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: tschak909 on April 06, 2009, 08:48:42 am
guys, we need to make device templates and associated scripts for these systems, so that these work-arounds can be automatically applied. Look at how the Fiire Station 1 is handled.

-Thom
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: Pnuts on April 06, 2009, 06:40:20 pm
guys, we need to make device templates and associated scripts for these systems, so that these work-arounds can be automatically applied. Look at how the Fiire Station 1 is handled.

-Thom


I am interested in doing this but do not know where to start or how to look at how Fiire Station 1 is handled. Could you give me a nudge in the right direction? Assuming I can accomplish this, ill also make a Wiki with steps to create additional templates for other machines.

I would be making one fore the MSI Wind Nettop computer (along with a wiki page on the model itself to compliment the MSI Wind PC wiki page)

-Pnuts
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: tschak909 on April 06, 2009, 06:46:12 pm
Start looking in our svn in src/Fiire_Scripts for examples of fiire specific configuration scripts.

It's the combination of those, and the device template for the Fiire Station 1 that allow lmce to apply needed fixes for these units.

-Thom
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: b4rney on April 06, 2009, 07:15:51 pm
alx9r, thanks for listing your experiences. I have added a recommendation to the wiki to use the tested xorg.conf posted by totallymaxed.

I do not have any problems with pxeboot once initial set-up is complete. I have a wired gigabit network.

Also worth mentioning the dvi to hdmi problem seems unique to the aquos tv, I have no problems with my LG TV using dvi to hdmi at 720p.

Only issues I have are:
1. Occasional lock up requiring reboot of asus eee box (fairly rare).
2. xorg.conf gets overwritten with vesa driver (simply repeat step 5 in the walkthrough). Very rare.

I'd be interested to see your shell script too.
Barney
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: b4rney on April 06, 2009, 07:25:14 pm
alx9r,
Forgot to ask ... you did complete step 6 of the wiki setup didn't you?

If you didn't do this step properly your eee box can't pxeboot after the initial boot. By recreating the image you allow it to boot only once. You must complete step 6 to stabilise your system. I think this might be your problem.

Hope this helps.
Barney
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 06, 2009, 08:49:26 pm
Start looking in our svn in src/Fiire_Scripts for examples of fiire specific configuration scripts.

It's the combination of those, and the device template for the Fiire Station 1 that allow lmce to apply needed fixes for these units.

-Thom


Hmmm...not sure what a device template for the Eee Box B202 would achieve. In Fiire's case they needed a template so they could differentiate between their 'custom' Via units and everyone else's...apart from that there was not much point.

Andrew
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 06, 2009, 09:07:18 pm
Forgot to ask ... you did complete step 6 of the wiki setup didn't you?

Yes, i completed step 6.  Without it the eee box tries to use the impugned r8169 module for the r8168 and hangs on boot. 

The pxeboot failure is very early.  Going from memory it fails attempting to find 01-00-22-15-64-a1-52 dot something (.cfg?).  I suspect this is the tftp step of the boot process.

I have copied the tftpboot folder from the working setup to a safe place hoping to diff out any changes once it fails to boot again.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 06, 2009, 09:16:39 pm
Also worth mentioning the dvi to hdmi problem seems unique to the aquos tv, I have no problems with my LG TV using dvi to hdmi at 720p.
That's what I suspected.  Thanks for confirming.

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Only issues I have are:
1. Occasional lock up requiring reboot of asus eee box (fairly rare).
I confirm this too.

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2. xorg.conf gets overwritten with vesa driver (simply repeat step 5 in the walkthrough). Very rare.
I haven't seen this yet.

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I'd be interested to see your shell script too.
I've attached it.  You'll need to change the moon # to yours in the various locations of course.  Make sure the good r8168.ko and xorg.conf files are in ./ when you run it.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: tschak909 on April 06, 2009, 10:41:04 pm
Start looking in our svn in src/Fiire_Scripts for examples of fiire specific configuration scripts.

It's the combination of those, and the device template for the Fiire Station 1 that allow lmce to apply needed fixes for these units.

-Thom


Hmmm...not sure what a device template for the Eee Box B202 would achieve. In Fiire's case they needed a template so they could differentiate between their 'custom' Via units and everyone else's...apart from that there was not much point.

Andrew

*shake-head*

Come on, device templates allow for any system specific fixes to be applied, without, you know, having to resort to following weird odd instructions spewed across a forum posting and a wiki page.

Think about it.

-Thom
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: b4rney on April 06, 2009, 11:33:41 pm
alx9r,
I've looked at your shell script and I think I can see your problem.

Step 6 includes the step of adding a line to the modules file on the moon (in your case 94). Your script includes the line referencing this file but misses the critical step of adding the line which is the module name 'r8168' into the modules file.

Apologies if I am misreading this but I'm stuck with windows for the moment so I can't see the file properly.

Hope this helps.
Barney
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 07, 2009, 12:36:33 am
Start looking in our svn in src/Fiire_Scripts for examples of fiire specific configuration scripts.

It's the combination of those, and the device template for the Fiire Station 1 that allow lmce to apply needed fixes for these units.

-Thom


Hmmm...not sure what a device template for the Eee Box B202 would achieve. In Fiire's case they needed a template so they could differentiate between their 'custom' Via units and everyone else's...apart from that there was not much point.

Andrew

*shake-head*

Come on, device templates allow for any system specific fixes to be applied, without, you know, having to resort to following weird odd instructions spewed across a forum posting and a wiki page.

Think about it.

-Thom


*shakes-head-back* :-)

But all of the Eee Box B202 issues can really be dealt with by adding as standard the NIC drivers to the standard initramfs and Updated Graphics drivers to the system as a whole... none of these are entirely specific to the Eee Box... they are generic to a whole range of MD's and should just be there - not added on demand by a template. We dont need to add these on demand - indeed we have never done this for the initramfs as far as i can remember.

Fiire are the only people who have take a 'device template' approach to MD's...and they did this because they needed to have a way to install their closed drivers...but even their templates failed as any Via GPU'd motherboard would be detected as a Fiire MD ;-).

In 0810 all of these issues are taken care of by the updated kernel to a large extent and other cans be corrected in the initramfs.

All the best

Andrew


Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: Seer on April 07, 2009, 04:56:52 am
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In 0810 all of these issues are taken care of by the updated kernel to a large extent and other cans be corrected in the initramfs.

All the best

Andrew
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you keep your projects in sync with the current versions of the distro you are working on.  We are not the only people in the planet to have these problems with these brand new chipsets, and the 0710 fix is to apply just enough handmade back ports to make it work.

The best idea (and the inevitable future) is riding the wave with the (K)Ubuntu crowd, keep the sun at our backs and our eyes on the horizon.  Their will be very few version-to-next upgrade issues, much easier to stay on top of, and we might even be able to drive what is included in the "extended world" package systems in the HA realm just by the fact that _we_ are using them.

Developers: Jump on now, take your time to get up to speed, and lets have some fun creating that house we had dreams about as children!

Seer

P.S. thanks alx9r for your run though of the eee box.  I'm sold!  Let's hear it for $300 25watt computers!  And another for the upcoming 204 with HDMI and Discrete Graphics card.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 07, 2009, 11:10:07 am
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In 0810 all of these issues are taken care of by the updated kernel to a large extent and other cans be corrected in the initramfs.

All the best

Andrew
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you keep your projects in sync with the current versions of the distro you are working on.  We are not the only people in the planet to have these problems with these brand new chipsets, and the 0710 fix is to apply just enough handmade back ports to make it work.

The best idea (and the inevitable future) is riding the wave with the (K)Ubuntu crowd, keep the sun at our backs and our eyes on the horizon.  Their will be very few version-to-next upgrade issues, much easier to stay on top of, and we might even be able to drive what is included in the "extended world" package systems in the HA realm just by the fact that _we_ are using them.

Developers: Jump on now, take your time to get up to speed, and lets have some fun creating that house we had dreams about as children!

Seer

P.S. thanks alx9r for your run though of the eee box.  I'm sold!  Let's hear it for $300 25watt computers!  And another for the upcoming 204 with HDMI and Discrete Graphics card.

Well... 0810 is definitely much better in terms of the support for newer hardware that's for sure. But there are also many changes 'under the hood' and the Dev team are working very hard to resolve those.

As to the ASUS Eee Box line... well the B204's only unique feature is its on-board UPS battery. We're are testing the B206 now with its onboard ATI Radeon 3400 GPU (there is no 'graphics card' as such by the way) and it looks like ti will perform very nicely in UI2 + Overlay at 1080p (under Dianemo & 0810-alpha's). Everything else about it is identical to the B202 so if your getting good results with a B202 then a B206 will be a pretty smooth ride.

I'll update the Wiki with some info on the B206 as soon as i have some time ;-)

All the best

Andrew
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 07, 2009, 07:30:00 pm
Step 6 includes the step of adding a line to the modules file on the moon (in your case 94). Your script includes the line referencing this file but misses the critical step of adding the line which is the module name 'r8168' into the modules file.

I can see how that line looks suspicious.  The way the script accomplishes adding the module name is by copying a pre-edited 'modules' file to the appropriate location.  I forgot to mention that file when I posted my script earlier.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 07, 2009, 07:31:11 pm
P.S. thanks alx9r for your run though of the eee box.  I'm sold!  Let's hear it for $300 25watt computers!  And another for the upcoming 204 with HDMI and Discrete Graphics card.

No problem.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 07, 2009, 07:48:49 pm
With respect to how easily the eee box can be set up as a media director here's how I see it:
  (1) The messiest problem is the mis-detetected NIC -- jondecker76 has reported this fixed in 0810 alpha2 (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7368.msg46763#msg46763)
  (2) A custom/upgraded/updated xorg.conf needs to be used to get acceptable performance.
  (3) The photo screen saver to "static" mode to prevent lockups.

0810 will fix (1), so that's just a matter of waiting.  If device templates and scripts accomplishes (2) and (3) out-of-the-box I'd be happy to implement them myself -- especially if thom or other developers are able to assist.

I think that it is worth the effort to out-of-the-box support for the eee box.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: krys on April 23, 2009, 07:10:20 pm
apologies if I missed it, but can the 202 run UI2 overlay or UI2 alpha?
Thanks,
-Krys
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: krys on April 23, 2009, 07:39:05 pm
also, would you mind going to hulu.com and try playing any of the videos in full screen mode to see if they can play without tearing or stuttering.
I would really appreciate is so I know before I purchase.
-Krys
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 23, 2009, 08:16:28 pm
apologies if I missed it, but can the 202 run UI2 overlay or UI2 alpha?
It runs UI2 overlay well.  I did not attempt UI2 alpha.

also, would you mind going to hulu.com and try playing any of the videos in full screen mode to see if they can play without tearing or stuttering.
Unfortunately hulu blocks playback from Canada so I couldn't test it.  I can confirm that google video plays fine in full screen mode.  I'd be happy to test a site similar to hulu that does work in canada.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: Itsik on April 23, 2009, 08:29:33 pm
It runs UI2 overlay well.  I did not attempt UI2 alpha.

Where you able to figure out the PSS issue ?

Itsik
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: krys on April 23, 2009, 08:43:17 pm
Unfortunately hulu blocks playback from Canada so I couldn't test it.  I can confirm that google video plays fine in full screen mode.  I'd be happy to test a site similar to hulu that does work in canada.

I would really like someone to test with Hulu as it has its own type of encryption and that combined with flash is buggy in full screen mode and as of now there is no fix other than being lucky enough to own hardware that is unaffected.
-Krys
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 23, 2009, 08:59:42 pm
Where you able to figure out the PSS issue ?
I have disabled the PSS device on the eee box as having it enabled at all caused lockups.

As far as I can tell, 0810 allows upgrading (or includes) newer graphics drivers.  If someone is running an 0810 alpha on an eeebox (jondecker76?) perhaps they could comment on whether they've tried the latest graphics drivers on the eeebox.

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: phenigma on April 23, 2009, 09:38:57 pm
Where you able to figure out the PSS issue ?
I have disabled the PSS device on the eee box as having it enabled at all caused lockups.

As far as I can tell, 0810 allows upgrading (or includes) newer graphics drivers.  If someone is running an 0810 alpha on an eeebox (jondecker76?) perhaps they could comment on whether they've tried the latest graphics drivers on the eeebox.

Alex

I tested my EeeBox202 with 0810 alpha 2.4.

Under 0810 the freezing does not occur with UI2 + mask, however the overlay is not occurring properly.  The menus work great until the PSS comes on and then the graphics become garbled as the PSS and menu try to co-exist together.  The system does not lock up, it does not freeze but it is still un-usable.  At the time I was going to upgrade to the latest intel drivers (2.6.x something at the time) but xv acceleration has been disabled in the 2.6.x versions of the intel driver.

Checking now the 2.7.0 driver is out.  Xv has been re-enabled but there are tearing issues when using it (according to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/).

Gutsy (0710) uses v2.1.1 of the intel driver <-- freezing
Intrepid (0810) uses v2.4.1 of the intel driver <-- no freezing but garbled menus/pics in UI2 + overlay
Jauny (0904) uses v2.6.3 of the intel driver <-- would have tried but xv is disabled so didn't bother

Looks like the 'freezing' was fixed between 2.1.1 and 2.4.1 but incorrect overlay is garbling the menus and graphics.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: alx9r on April 23, 2009, 10:01:07 pm
phenigma,
thanks for the rundown.  seems like there's hope for the PSS on the eeebox yet.  Did you happen to notice any performance difference between 2.1.1 and 2.4.1 other than those related to the PSS?

Alex
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: phenigma on April 23, 2009, 10:06:11 pm
phenigma,
thanks for the rundown.  seems like there's hope for the PSS on the eeebox yet.  Did you happen to notice any performance difference between 2.1.1 and 2.4.1 other than those related to the PSS?

Alex

No I did not notice any other differences in performance.  I *think* that media playback worked fine with the menus but I don't remember.  I am planning on investigating further but havn't had the time yet.

J
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on April 24, 2009, 01:08:35 pm
also, would you mind going to hulu.com and try playing any of the videos in full screen mode to see if they can play without tearing or stuttering.
I would really appreciate is so I know before I purchase.
-Krys

Well you'll need someone who is in the US to test this for you as the Hulu service is not available outside the US currently. I visited the site and it looked like it would perform fine to me...but I could not actually watch any content.

We have a service here in the UK called iPlayer that is provided by the BBC (its also restricted and can only be accessed from inside the UK) and this uses streamed flash flv movies and Adobe AIR for its offline download service. Both of thse performa excellently on the B202 at full screen... so my estimate is that Hulu should perform in a similar fashion.

Andrew
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: bongowongo on May 11, 2009, 11:11:41 pm

[/quote]

Well we update to the current fglrx driver and thats about it...

I cant access the Core that our ATI MD's are booted currently from home tonight...but on Monday i will post the xorg.conf from one of our HD3450 based MD's and also the version of the ATI driver we are using.

All the best

Andrew

PS remind me on Monday if i have not posted anything here ;-)
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I am working now on an Asus EEE-Pc 206, but I cannot get it really to work.
Netbooting works, but after a while I just get a black screen and nothing happens.
The Xorg.conf file with ATI configs could really help.
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: tschak909 on May 12, 2009, 03:29:43 am
I regularly watch media on Hulu.com in 0810.

-Thom
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: seth on May 12, 2009, 05:46:36 pm
Not to hijack this post, but has any development gone into integrating hulu as a media device on 810?

I only ask because when I watch google videos, and youtube stuff at home, after a certain amount of time firefox window disappears, and I am left with a black screen.

But having a hulu media device, now that would be pretty sweet.

Regards,

Seth
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: bongowongo on May 17, 2009, 10:48:22 am
Did any users of the EEEbox got the remote working on the MD?
Title: Re: Would you buy EEEbox for MD (199€)?
Post by: totallymaxed on May 17, 2009, 10:49:53 am
Did any users of the EEEbox got the remote working on the MD?

Microsoft MCE transceivers work fine on the Eee Box's.

Andrew