{"id":4757,"date":"2018-05-25T21:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T01:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T21:50:39","slug":"building-the-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4757","title":{"rendered":"Building the foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The project continues! The first step was to get a Super-Small Form Factor (SSFF) PC that had the hardware to run Steam games on top of Debian Linux, which is what SteamOS is a fork of. Luckily, I have a good friend<\/a> who tends to collect cast-off hardware.<\/p>\n

The first model I tried was a Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny Desktop<\/a>. It has an Intel Core i5-3470T processor at 2.90GHz<\/a>. The processor has an on-board graphics card, which was good enough to handle what the project requires. We cobbled together 8 gigs of RAM from a couple of different boxes. It has onboard 802.11n and bluetooth, but only VGA and DisplayPort outs, when the screens I was looking at were all HDMI. Also, during install, my friend and I could only get video to output to the VGA port, which was not going to work. So, on to the next one.<\/p>\n

The second model I tried was a Dell OptiPlex 7040 micro<\/a>. It’s got an Intel Core i5-6500T<\/a> processor at just under 3GHz, which also has an integrated graphics card. This one already had 8 gigs of RAM installed, but no wifi or bluetooth. It didn’t have a hard drive, so I pulled a 128 GB SSD out of my LaCie Rugged<\/a> enclosure and crossed my fingers that the hard drive space requirement<\/a> was able to be fudged.<\/p>\n

It was! I hooked it up to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. SteamOS<\/a> installed, with no error, and booted right up! There was some serious screen twitching going on with the video card (Skylake! *shakes fist*), but a configuration change<\/a> fixed that completely. I installed some games, and was grinning ear to ear at how smoothly they were playing.<\/p>\n

Next Friday – Testing with the controller! Ordering and testing the screen! Also a wireless and bluetooth card!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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