I've gotit going now.. i think installing linux-restricted-modules helped along with adjusting the driver setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.pluto

where in the web interface can i change the UI settings on the core machine?

in the left pane under media directors

definately seems the web interface and maybe /etc/X11/xorg.conf.pluto are worth a look
can' say if i have it workin yet as i'm remote ;|

i made lmce boot first as i was saying earlier; i've found if you do this and it grey scsreens
ctrl+alt+f2 (a couple times even)
login
startx

and in my setup ubuntu boots fine soi'm sure it's very likely the ui choice is bad;
are there specifc tricks for the alpha transaprency to be done in the config?

im unable todo a video for now

my mistake didn't see the post on the web interface, i'm playing around in there now

i'm stuck at this same point too
i chose dedicated so it would start mce before ubuntu, it just boots to a grey screen with a mouse cursor
then i can drop back to a terminal ctrl+alt+f1, login, run startx and ubuntu starts fine, launch mce from ubuntu andi end up at the grey screen of death

i've tried a bunch of things along the lines of my video card as well to no avail

i think i'm at like 4 hours now ;p

hmm well i ran this and it showed somethign itneresting

Code:

root@media-center:/usr/pluto/deb-cache# aptitude install pluto-dcerouter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information     
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done     
The following packages are BROKEN:
  vim
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  ansi2html apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils atftpd attr autofs bind9 cabextract
  courier-authdaemon courier-authlib courier-authlib-userdb courier-base courier-mta curl ddclient debootstrap
  dhcp3-server discover1 discover1-data etherwake ftp-upload imagemagick jackd kakasi-dic libapache2-mod-php4 libapr0
  libarchive-zip-perl libartsc0 libauthen-sasl-perl libclass-methodmaker-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libconvert-asn1-perl
  libconvert-binhex-perl libcrypt-smbhash-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdate-manip-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
  libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-md4-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdiscover1 libemail-address-perl libemail-find-perl
  libemail-valid-perl libevent1 libexporter-lite-perl libfcgi-perl libflickr-api-perl libgd2-xpm libgssapi2
  libhtml-fromtext-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl libhttp-cache-transparent-perl libhttpfetcher1 libid3-3.8.3c2a
  libio-socket-ssl-perl libio-stringy-perl libjack0.100.0-0 libjcode-pm-perl libkakasi2 liblame0
  liblingua-preferred-perl liblockfile1 liblog-tracemessages-perl libltdl3 libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl
  libmime-perl libmysqlclient12 libmysqlclient14 libmysqlclient15off libmyth-0.20 libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libnet-jabber-perl libnet-ldap-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnet-xmpp-perl
  libnfsidmap1 libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid13 libpcre3 libplrpc-perl libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-mysql libregexp-common-perl
  librpcsecgss2 libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-sge libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian-all libsdl1.2debian-pluto
  libsdl1.2debian-pluto-oss libsoap-lite-perl libssl0.9.7 libt1-5 libterm-progressbar-perl libterm-readkey-perl
  libtext-kakasi-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libtimedate-perl libunicode-map-perl libunicode-map8-perl
  libunicode-maputf8-perl libunicode-string-perl libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-libxml-common-perl libxml-libxml-perl
  libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-lite-tree-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-stream-perl
  libxml-twig-perl libxml-writer-perl libxml-xpath-perl libxmltv-perl libzzip-0-12 lshwd mailx mce-diskless-tools
  mce-launcher mdadm msttcorefonts mtools mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
  mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-doc nbtscan nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nis ntp ntp-server
  ntp-simple openbsd-inetd openssh-server perlmagick php4-common php4-curl php4-gd php4-mysql pluto-add-software
  pluto-boot-scripts pluto-capture-card-scripts pluto-confirm-dependencies pluto-convert-mac pluto-createdevice
  pluto-database-settings pluto-dcecommon pluto-dhcpd-plugin pluto-disk-monitor pluto-dummy-console-tools
  pluto-dynamic-dns pluto-hald pluto-install-scripts pluto-libserial pluto-local-database pluto-media-database
  pluto-messagesend pluto-network-storage pluto-newmdinteractor pluto-orbitergen pluto-orbiterinstaller
  pluto-pluto-main-db pluto-pluto-media-db pluto-pluto-security-db pluto-pluto-telecom-db pluto-plutodhcp
  pluto-plutoutils pluto-pnp-detection pluto-qos pluto-ra pluto-raid-tools pluto-remoteassistance pluto-sdl-helpers
  pluto-security-database pluto-serializeclass pluto-shiftstate pluto-skins-basic pluto-sound-card-scripts pluto-sqlcvs
  pluto-std-plugins pluto-storage-devices pluto-system-database pluto-telecom-database pluto-test-serial-port
  pluto-update-system pluto-updateentarea pluto-updatemedia pluto-website-admin pluto-website-support
  pluto-windowsce-libraries portmap pwgen samba smbfs smbldap-tools ssh syslinux tee-pluto vim-runtime xmltv-util
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  libsdl1.2debian-alsa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ansi2html apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils atftpd attr autofs bind9 cabextract
  courier-authdaemon courier-authlib courier-authlib-userdb courier-base courier-mta curl ddclient debootstrap
  dhcp3-server discover1 discover1-data etherwake ftp-upload imagemagick jackd kakasi-dic libapache2-mod-php4 libapr0
  libarchive-zip-perl libartsc0 libauthen-sasl-perl libclass-methodmaker-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libconvert-asn1-perl
  libconvert-binhex-perl libcrypt-smbhash-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdate-manip-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
  libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-md4-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdiscover1 libemail-address-perl libemail-find-perl
  libemail-valid-perl libevent1 libexporter-lite-perl libfcgi-perl libflickr-api-perl libgd2-xpm libgssapi2
  libhtml-fromtext-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl libhttp-cache-transparent-perl libhttpfetcher1 libid3-3.8.3c2a
  libio-socket-ssl-perl libio-stringy-perl libjack0.100.0-0 libjcode-pm-perl libkakasi2 liblame0
  liblingua-preferred-perl liblockfile1 liblog-tracemessages-perl libltdl3 libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl
  libmime-perl libmysqlclient12 libmysqlclient14 libmysqlclient15off libmyth-0.20 libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libnet-jabber-perl libnet-ldap-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnet-xmpp-perl
  libnfsidmap1 libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid13 libpcre3 libplrpc-perl libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-mysql libregexp-common-perl
  librpcsecgss2 libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-sge libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian-all libsdl1.2debian-pluto
  libsdl1.2debian-pluto-oss libsoap-lite-perl libssl0.9.7 libt1-5 libterm-progressbar-perl libterm-readkey-perl
  libtext-kakasi-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libtimedate-perl libunicode-map-perl libunicode-map8-perl
  libunicode-maputf8-perl libunicode-string-perl libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-libxml-common-perl libxml-libxml-perl
  libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-lite-tree-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-stream-perl
  libxml-twig-perl libxml-writer-perl libxml-xpath-perl libxmltv-perl libzzip-0-12 lshwd mailx mce-diskless-tools
  mce-launcher mdadm msttcorefonts mtools mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
  mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-doc nbtscan nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nis ntp ntp-server
  ntp-simple openbsd-inetd openssh-server perlmagick php4-common php4-curl php4-gd php4-mysql pluto-add-software
  pluto-boot-scripts pluto-capture-card-scripts pluto-confirm-dependencies pluto-convert-mac pluto-createdevice
  pluto-database-settings pluto-dcecommon pluto-dcerouter pluto-dhcpd-plugin pluto-disk-monitor
  pluto-dummy-console-tools pluto-dynamic-dns pluto-hald pluto-install-scripts pluto-libserial pluto-local-database
  pluto-media-database pluto-messagesend pluto-network-storage pluto-newmdinteractor pluto-orbitergen
  pluto-orbiterinstaller pluto-pluto-main-db pluto-pluto-media-db pluto-pluto-security-db pluto-pluto-telecom-db
  pluto-plutodhcp pluto-plutoutils pluto-pnp-detection pluto-qos pluto-ra pluto-raid-tools pluto-remoteassistance
  pluto-sdl-helpers pluto-security-database pluto-serializeclass pluto-shiftstate pluto-skins-basic
  pluto-sound-card-scripts pluto-sqlcvs pluto-std-plugins pluto-storage-devices pluto-system-database
  pluto-telecom-database pluto-test-serial-port pluto-update-system pluto-updateentarea pluto-updatemedia
  pluto-website-admin pluto-website-support pluto-windowsce-libraries portmap pwgen samba smbfs smbldap-tools ssh
  syslinux tee-pluto vim-runtime xmltv-util
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libsdl1.2debian-alsa
0 packages upgraded, 217 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8477kB/264MB of archives. After unpacking 554MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vim: Depends: vim-common (= 1:7.0-035+1ubuntu5) but 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 is installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
pluto-boot-scripts [Not Installed]
pluto-confirm-dependencies [Not Installed]
pluto-createdevice [Not Installed]
pluto-dcerouter [Not Installed]
pluto-dummy-console-tools [Not Installed]
pluto-install-scripts [Not Installed]
pluto-local-database [Not Installed]
pluto-std-plugins [Not Installed]
pluto-system-database [Not Installed]
pluto-website-admin [Not Installed]
vim [Not Installed]

Score is 89

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

so i ran this

Code:

root@media-center:~# aptitude remove vim-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done     
The following packages are BROKEN:
  vim-tiny
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  vim-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 578kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vim-tiny: Depends: vim-common (= 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1) but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Downgrade the following packages:
vim-common [1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 (now) -> 1:7.0-035+1ubuntu5 (<NULL>, edgy)]
vim-tiny [1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 (now) -> 1:7.0-035+1ubuntu5 (edgy)]

Score is -129

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  vim-common vim-tiny
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 534kB/727kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main vim-tiny 1:7.0-035+1ubuntu5 [534kB]
Fetched 534kB in 3s (171kB/s)       
dpkg - warning: downgrading vim-tiny from 7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 to 7.0-035+1ubuntu5.
(Reading database ... 115289 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace vim-tiny 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 (using .../vim-tiny_1%3a7.0-035+1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement vim-tiny ...
dpkg - warning: downgrading vim-common from 7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 to 7.0-035+1ubuntu5.
Preparing to replace vim-common 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 (using .../vim-common_1%3a7.0-035+1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement vim-common ...
Setting up vim-common (7.0-035+1ubuntu5) ...

Setting up vim-tiny (7.0-035+1ubuntu5) ...

root@media-center:~#

and at thispoint i'd say the installer is trucking along further than last time!

as far as updated edgy i installed this evening and went tot he furthest dist-upgrade icould do with the default package repos file (universe and the like were enabled)

i probly grabbed the bad one off the torrents first....
installed and it failed then i read this thread to get the fresh iso.. i think i did so it's named linuxmce-1.0-packages.iso
i've attached a calculate md5 which i think helps
i purged the installer, reinstalled the installer and ran it with the new disc inserted
anyway it's still giving me trouble..

clean edgy install this evening

Code:

Ign file: ./ Release.gpg
Ign file: ./ Translation-en_US
Ign file: ./ Release
Ign file: ./ Packages
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Release.gpg
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Translation-en_US
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Release
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Packages
Err http://linuxmce.com ./ Packages
  404 Not Found
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Packages
Failed to fetch http://linuxmce.com/ubuntu/./Packages.gz  404 Not Found
Fetched 3B in 5s (1B/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
MESSAGE: Generating Default Config File
MESSAGE: Configuring Network Information Service (NIS)
Mounting CD
^AMESSAGE: Caching LinuxMCE CD on the harddrive
MESSAGE: Installing LinuxMCE Base Software
Ign file: ./ Release.gpg
Ign file: ./ Translation-en_US
Ign file: ./ Release
Ign file: ./ Packages
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Release.gpg
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Translation-en_US
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Release
Ign http://linuxmce.com ./ Packages
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_US
Err http://linuxmce.com ./ Packages
  404 Not Found
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Packages
Failed to fetch http://linuxmce.com/ubuntu/./Packages.gz  404 Not Found
Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pluto-dcerouter: Depends: pluto-confirm-dependencies (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pluto-dcerouter: Depends: pluto-confirm-dependencies (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-confirm-dependencies (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-createdevice (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-createdevice (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-install-scripts (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-install-scripts (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-local-database (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-local-database (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-std-plugins (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-std-plugins (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-system-database (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-system-database (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-website-admin (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-website-admin (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-boot-scripts (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: pluto-boot-scripts (< 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   PreDepends: vim but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

ERROR : Failed to install and configure the base software

edit: the md5 matches the one currently on the linuxmce site
0c925976b65ba481271cbb133051fe3a
so the screenshot was not necessary