[ale] distro for carputer

[Randy Ramsdell]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 10:28 -0500, Charles Brian Quinn wrote:
> > I was thinking of using gentoo for a SFF or carputer, but I haven't
> > decided on the hardware yet. Once I do, I will probably will try gentoo
> > first as it starts from the bare minimum system from start. Of coarse,
> > the system may be very slow compiling, but that would depend on the
> > number of apps needed.
> > 
> > Randy
> 
> Do check http://www.mp3car.com/
> 
> I set a up a computer in my car a while back, it was pretty cool.  While 
> I wasn't yet a member of the gentoo club then (was even trying to use 
> windows embedded - yikes!), I would also too consider doing a gentoo 
> setup now-a-days.  Things like festival, gpsdrive, and of course mplayer 
> with a nice touch-screen enabled skin, and suspend2 (hibernation) would 
> make a really fabulous project.  Couple that with a mythtv setup and 
> some automatic jobs for transcoding recordings down to something 
> manageable (size/quality-wise) and a way to transfer them to your car 
> easily, and you're good to go.
> 
> I have a page on my car computer setup:  http://www.seebq.com/projects/ 
> and lots of pictures.
> 
> Please do let the list know how it goes,

Nice job on that project. 

I have a couple of questions regarding video connections. 

The basic:

What connections can be used to connect the carputer to a LCD? 

My current setup on has din(for nav unit) and RCA. Anyway to get this
working for a carputer? <---- yes I know I'm a noob

rcr