2003 Volvo S60

**gandhijee** · 06-25-2009, 03:46 PM

hi guys,
i've finally ordered the components to start prototyping.

my carputer will consist of the following

asus m3a78-em mobo - this has hybrid crossfire capabilities
VGA, DVI,HDMI, and display port out, in theory i can run 3 monitors off just this MB.

AMD x2 5050 processor - 45w
replacing the std BIOS with LinuxBIOS/CoreBoot
boot media - SATA to SD or IDE to SD adapter with custom linux

OS -
custom based linux 2.6.xx
audio layer - i might bite the bullet and pay the 50 bucks for an OSS lic
alsa seems like it might still have some mixer issues.

GUI - diskofb or clutter

interfaces - 1 touchscreen where the current HU is
- secondary display where the factory nav unit goes, have to find the motor mounts for this so i can have it pop up, plan to display vitals or GPS in that area.
fusionbrain/phidgets to replicate traditional knobs (volume, fader, etc)
ODBII/CAN bus - ODBII is a given, second would be the CAN bus so i can try to access my windows sunroof etc.

i still have to figure out the audio portion, currently i am thinking about ripping up a home AMP so i can run digital straight to my amp then out to my speakers. the volvo's already have a location of a center channel so....

as for the speakers - i might try and get my hands on the dynaudio 13 speaker package (aka premium sound package i think) from volvo and throw that in...

wish me luck

**gandhijee** · 06-29-2009, 11:31 AM

Hi guys,
i got my board, cpu and cooler in today. Giving it a memtest burn-in while i am at the office.

its a 45W 2.6G dual core AMD. I'll be clocking it down to 2.0 soon.

next up is to get my hands a on a 64 Megabit SPI rom and port CoreBoot over. I heard a little bit of unfortunate news though. AMD won't be releasing the specs for the 780G. That means even if i am successful at getting Coreboot ported over, i can't give it out without violating my NDA =/. Hopefully the coreboot guys can push on them some more.

Board W/ Processor

Rear IO

in the burnin room

running memtest

**gandhijee** · 07-01-2009, 02:14 PM

UI layer selected and compiled and installed.

I went with disko for the UI layer. I think i can avoid the overhead of X using this and it seems pretty solid.

www.diskohq.org

check it out, i'm going to try to build a framework around that ala openwrt build style.