[mythtv] Xbox hardware detection

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 10:51:13 UTC 2007


On 7/16/07, Christian Wattengård <cwattengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/07, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/16/07, Matthew Wire <devel at mrwire.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Anyone with Xbox hardware, could you take a look at your system and see if
> > > there is any way of identifying that the system is an Xbox?
> > >
> >
> > Ummm, I had a look around and whilst I don't really know what most of
> > them do, I did find mention of Xbox in cmdline.
> >
> > mythFE2:~# cat /proc/cmdline
> > root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 devfs=mount kbd-reset xbox=hdd
>
>
> I believe that's just the parameterline to the kernel on boot.
>
> You should probably be able to detect the gpu chip using lspci or
> lshw.

mythFE2:~# lshw
-bash: lshw: command not found
mythFE2:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 02a5 (rev a1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 02a6 (rev a1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev d1)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev d4)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev d4)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet
Controller (rev d2)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown
device 01b0 (rev d2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
Audio (rev d2)
0000:00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation nForce AC'97 Modem Controller (rev d1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev d2)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev d4)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev a1)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown
device 02a0 (rev a1)
mythFE2:~#

Mine are Xbox 1.4's I believe, running Xebian 1.1 from memory.  It has
been a while since I set them up though.


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