This project is done. I got one on ebay and opened her up. I removed the hard drive, took it to another machine, the immediatly blew out the existing xp embedded install and applications with cfdisk. After I finished a fedora core 6 install on the drive I re installed it into the akimbo case. I had to edit /etc/fstab to fix some paths but afterward it boots.
Here is what works.
1. Xorg works via the composite or s-video outs
2. Ethernet works
3. USB works
4. Sound works via the RCA stereo outputs (red and white) | I have not tested the optical out
Here is what does not work (yet)
1. There is some jitter in X, its fine when I play a video in fullscreen via xine (setting the res to 800×600 fixed this)
2. I have not yet figured out if the IR input will even be usable to me via lirc
EXTRA…
Performance is fine for video playback. Certainly better than the xbox frontend I was using for a while even though they have similar specs. I have played back mpeg-2 files, and mpeg-4 files w/ h.264. all were fine.
CPUINFO: Mobile Intel Celeron @ 733 mhz
MEMINFO: 128 MB, but I can clearly increase this as I see the dimm
glxgears runs @ about 350 fps.
here is my all working xorg.conf