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Installation issues / Linux MCE 1.1b2 installation woes...
« on: July 25, 2007, 08:21:31 am »
This looks like such a cool product, but for the life of me, I can't get to square 1 (installing it).

I've got a decent machine that I want to use as a Hybrid (backend + frontend) and another lower end machine that I want to use purely as a frontend in a bedroom.

So far, I'm trying the Hybrid computer, which is something like this:

ASUS mobo w/ NForce2 chipset
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ clocked to and recognized by system as 3200+
1GB RAM
80G HDD
NVidia 5900 XT video card

I bought this rig used for $150 and upgraded the video card to what's listed above as the previous card was a 4800 (which I plan on using in my low end frontend).

Here's a quick history:

1. Downloaded/burned/installed Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

2. Downloaded/burned MCE discs

3. Downloaded/installed MCE installer then launched via desktop icon as directed.  This didn't work (nothing happened after launching the link on the desktop).  I read that I had to use Kubuntu 7.04.  OK..

4. I download/burned/installed Kubuntu 7.04.  I let Adept apply all updates and, furthermore, use Envy to install NVidia drivers (because I want decent graphic capability for video playback and the UI).

5. Downloaded/installed MCE installer then launched via desktop.  Prompted for password.  Entered password then "nothing happens".  OK, so maybe the Envy installation and graphics drivers are too much.

6. Reinstall Kubuntu and let Adept update.  Download/install MCE installer.  Launch icon from desktop, prompted for password, then "nothing".  Hmmm...

7. From a shell, navigate to /usr/share/mce-installer and then do: sudo ./mce-installer.sh.  Error messages about not having gksu installed.  Alrighty then...

8. Use Adept to get/install gksu.

9. sudo /usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh.  More error messages to the tune of:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode: 146
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode: 146
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0

Some Google'ing yields that I need to comment out some input devices in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (namely the stylus, cursor, and eraser devices).

10. backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig

11. gksu /usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh.  Prompted for a password, and after entry, again I see "nothing happen".


So this is where I'm at and have no idea what to do next.

I'm sitting here with a pretty much stock Kubuntu install and can't manage to get the MCE installer to run at all.  Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Ben

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