Pegatron Cape 7

[coley]

Hi folks,
I've been hunting around for a beefy MD that can handle full HD.
Has anyone experience with this? http://www.custompc.ie/cape-7-nvidia-ion-atom-230-2gb-160gb-white-24645-p.asp
I can't seem to find details on power consumption or its NIC although I have only been looking on and off this afternoon.

Do people think it will fit the bill, looks like it will, and work with lmce?

thx,
-Coley.

[totallymaxed]

Hi folks,
I've been hunting around for a beefy MD that can handle full HD.
Has anyone experience with this? http://www.custompc.ie/cape-7-nvidia-ion-atom-230-2gb-160gb-white-24645-p.asp
I can't seem to find details on power consumption or its NIC although I have only been looking on and off this afternoon.

Do people think it will fit the bill, looks like it will, and work with LinuxMCE?

thx,
-Coley.

We sell a Media Manager that is based on an OEM version of that product. The OEM version has no internal hard drive and a somewhat different motherboard that amongst other differences uses the atl1 NIC driver. Our units run at about 20-22W at peak and after seevral hours watching TV/DVD's you can hear a little fan noise but its pretty unobtrusive.

We like these units...but bare in mind they are not identical hardware.

All the best


Andrew

[coley]

thanks Andrew.
am assuming they are fine with fullHD material, and UI2 ok.

thx,
-Coley.

[totallymaxed]

thanks Andrew.
am assuming they are fine with fullHD material, and UI2 ok.

thx,
-Coley.

They are Ion units so they have the same overall performance as others - 1080p with vdpau is fine. UI2 is fine.

All the best


Andrew

[bp5]

If you buy this and it works could you update the wiki (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:Media_Directors) please?

If anyone else knows of currently available thin-ish client box that works well as an MD could you post it here?  Most of the entries in the wiki in the above category and in the MD Newbie categories are two years old and now seem hard to find.

cheers,
Blaine

[purps]

If you buy this and it works could you update the wiki (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:Media_Directors) please?

If anyone else knows of currently available thin-ish client box that works well as an MD could you post it here?  Most of the entries in the wiki in the above category and in the MD Newbie categories are two years old and now seem hard to find.

cheers,
Blaine

As Andrew said, Ion (i.e. nVidia) miniITX boards shouldn't cause you any problems. There are plenty of these about, and thin cases designed specifically for miniITX boards are also available. Alternatively you could make/fabricate a case (if you're a cheapskate like me).

[coley]

Ordered one this am so will let you know how it goes.

-Coley.

[chrisbirkinshaw]

A few words of warning... I bought one of these and the HDMI is via a DVI to HDMI adapter and there is no SPDIF connector.... so no digital sound output options!

[coley]

I thought the nvidia DVI-HDMI adapter included in the box routes the sound over HDMI?
I haven't tried audio over hdmi yet so cannot comment from experience, but I recall reading something to that effect.

-Coley.

[coley]

Just to update here
The DVI-HDMI adapter supplied in the box does indeed feed sound over hdmi.
The digital audio side of the onboard hd audio chip doesn't seem to be recognised by alsa in 0810, will need to figure out why.
I have verified though that the hardware is good and that it is recognised in > kubuntu 10.04 and digital audio does work.

-Coley.

[coley]

and finally got back to this last night, audio over hdmi operational
I thought it may have been to do with incorrect version of alsa-modules but they turned out not to be installed in the first place, although alsamixer was.
An apt-get install alsa-modules-`uname -r` later and viola audio lifted me out of it!!

-Coley.

[Marie.O]

We have removed the auto install of the latest version of alsa due to some cards working better with the original ones.

[coley]

Ok, thx explains that away - don't need to figure out why they weren't installed

-Coley.