Greetings!<br><br>I've been lurking here for quite a while. Now it's time for a question.<br><br>I currently run a combo front/back end with a PVR-500 and I've been very happy with how it performs. I built this out of my wife's old Sempron system after we bought her a laptop. Now I'd like to move to a dedicated, quieter front-end that will look good in the entertainment cabinet.
<br><br>My local computer shop showed me a Foxconn "Tuckaway" that I think would make a great case but I'm concerned about the graphics chipset which is the Intel GMA 900.<br><br>Here is the system:<br><a href="http://www.foxconnchannel.com/Product/Barebone_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0000005" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/Product/Barebone_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0000005</a><br><br>This system would probably do fine on SD even if there wasn't a good accelerated driver for the Intel chipset but I recently found that my cable company offers
digital terminals with HD output on firewire so I'd like to be able to do that eventually. I've looked around but I'm having difficulty figuring out if the GMA 900 chipset is well enough supported in Linux to display HD content.
<br><br>Any thoughts or comments on this unit would be appreciated. Any suggestions for an alternative in the same vein would be as well.
<br><br>Thank you much,<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Varek<br>