Comment Re:Lazy Question (Score 1) 282
Yeah, I'm running a full-on fanless system with a Via Epia MS-1000 (1 Ghz) motherboard, PVR-250 tv card, and silverstone powersupply (I forget which one). Like the other guy said, you need to have the hardware mpeg acceleration stuff enabled - I ended up using the openchrome project patch for Fedora Core 4. I also had many problems getting a distribution with working ALSA support for my spdif sound, and let me be the first to tell you that there is no tech support from Via. Zip. Nada. The link on the webpage sends you to a forum of other people that are struggling with the lack of tech support. Oh yeah, and the MS series boards lack many of the connectors that you would normally expect on the back of your PC, so the TV out, spdif, keyboard, usb - it's all provided as header pins. Yippy!
But it's a pretty cool setup. The only noise is from the harddrive right now, and that's an improvement.
But it's a pretty cool setup. The only noise is from the harddrive right now, and that's an improvement.
