Is anyone running boinc on an xbox (linux)? If so, is there anything that I should be aware of before I attempt this?

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<BR><B><I>Regards, UA

Hi,

I've been playing with that thought, too.
If you get a new xbox (V1.6), you'll have a hard time getting linux to run,
because microsoft closed some loop holes that were used to install xebian.
The V1.6 graphics aren't supported too well also.
(Proprietary M$ chip, ugh..)

The whole installation process is a bit ugly.

The technically best way to do it would be using a mod chip, but this would
make the whole project a bit too expensive for my taste.

[EDIT]
The "chameleon" mod chip is only $29 (or $39 solderless), complete with "cromwell" bios.

I guess I'll give it a try :o)


Regards Hans

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Oh dear, another problem (copied from "number crunching"):

Posted: 9 Dec 2004 3:17:17 UTC - in response to Message ID 52324.
Last modified: 9 Dec 2004 3:19:29 UTC

> >There's work available but your machine doesn't
> >have enough memory
>
> The machine is an AMD K6-2 333 MHz with 64 MB of RAM.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what has changed in the past week as regards SETI
> requirements?
>

Nov 18 22:24:37 2004 UTC:
- increased memory resource bound to 64M to prevent core client
from killing application when running with graphics enabled.


The limits is set when a wu is generated, for seti this is more specifically when the Splitter have split a wu. Earlier the memory-limit was 32 MB, so if the scheduler have some old re-issued wu ready to be sent out you can still download these, but any wu generated after 18. November can't be crunched before getting more memory.
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Since the xbox only has 64MB, you'd have to solder in more ram.
This kind of kills the whole idea....

Regards Hans

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