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Installation issues / Re: 12.04 DVD install fails

« on: January 03, 2014, 03:17:49 pm »

Have you had any flavour of Linux installed on this machine before?

Have a look in your BIOS at the hard disk mode, try playing with that setting, try AHCI if you haven't already (maybe they are currently set to legacy or similar). Either way, have a play. Your mobo manufacturer may refer to this setting differently.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Orbiter on 2nd o2 Joggler won't start

« on: December 19, 2013, 06:26:35 pm »

Running ldconfig did the trick, that's all 3 jogglers working - thank you very much.

I found this really useful if anybody wants to know more about ldconfig http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/06/linux-shared-libraries/

Output from "ldconfig -v" http://pastebin.com/UffvEM4g

Contents of /etc/ld.so.conf.d/...

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GL.conf
i486-linux-gnu.conf
libasound2.conf
libc.conf
LinuxMCE.conf
Output from "ldd /usr/pluto/bin/Orbiter" http://pastebin.com/at2bWzBg

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Orbiter on 2nd o2 Joggler won't start

« on: December 19, 2013, 12:27:34 am »

Yep they are all there, on both the working joggler and the non-working one.

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Users / Re: Orbiter on 2nd o2 Joggler won't start

« on: December 18, 2013, 09:11:30 pm »

Thanks for the reply.

Given what you've said I rsynced all the files over from the working joggler, and it still doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Orbiter on 2nd o2 Joggler won't start

« on: December 17, 2013, 09:18:47 pm »

Got orbiter working on my second Joggler for a brief period of time after a number of attempts (wiping each time), but when I unplugged it to move it, it wouldn't work again. Have tried several times again since. Am finding this difficult to troubleshoot given that it has worked briefly.

In web admin I incremented the Listen Port on the new orbiter, so the new one is 3452 - does this need to be reflected anywhere else?

I've tried using just an Ethernet cable, no wireless.

Have tried on a spare joggler.

Manually running startOrbiter.sh on the joggler gives the following if that gives any clues

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/usr/pluto/bin/Orbiter: error while loading shared libraries: libDCECommon.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Controlling AV equipment - peculiar behavior

« on: December 11, 2013, 04:44:52 pm »

Might be worth sticking a 10 second delay between each command, just in the name of science.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Following upgrade, media on MD starts at maximum volume

« on: December 09, 2013, 03:09:43 pm »

Thanks awfully chaps! Will retry upgrade in due course.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: install advice, purchasing core/md/orbit

« on: December 06, 2013, 11:14:51 am »

Check out "Exemplary Setups" on the wiki http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:User_Setups

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Composite camera as "Generic Analogue Camera"

« on: December 02, 2013, 01:59:45 pm »

I read about this issue http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,13325.0.html

So created a file

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~/.screenrc
...and added

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setenv LD_PRELOAD "/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so"
...but it hasn't changed anything unfortunately. I wonder if this is specific to USB cameras as opposed to composite cameras? Or is it for any camera under motion?

This has always felt like a permissions issue, but my understanding is that LMCE does everything as root anyway, so don't really know how to go about confirming this one way or the other. It is true that when I view the camera in mplayer I have to use sudo though.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Any motherboard suggestions?

« on: December 02, 2013, 01:50:22 pm »

Personally, for my standalone core, I've always just used whatever motherboard/graphics I have laying around, regardless of brand/performance. Or buy a mobo that ticks all the boxes, without caring about graphics. Even if the screen does appear the size of a matchbox, why do you care. But this is just my experience. You could always stick an older nVidia graphics card in if you had serious problems.

Don't piddle about buying old kit to match your old CPU, just cough up and replace it all, doesn't need to be particularly powerful.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: install advice, purchasing core/md/orbit

« on: December 02, 2013, 01:39:33 pm »

Would be difficult to maintain/update. You could just look through the user pages. Then it's easier to see who has what exactly, and make your own judgements i.e. is it out of date. is the user active, etc.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Why VPN (was: setup qorbiter to be used from ouside internal network i.e. across town)

« on: November 26, 2013, 01:55:44 pm »

Thanks for the reply, what you are saying does make a lot of sense. I will certainly have a little read up and a play. It's not entirely clear to me what all this means in practice i.e what steps I would take to ssh in or use my orbiter remotely from my phone or work computer (VPN is simply an addition to those things is what I'm taking away from your explanation), but as I say I will have a play.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Why VPN (was: setup qorbiter to be used from ouside internal network i.e. across town)

« on: November 25, 2013, 05:54:38 pm »

Sorry to hijack the thread (hopefully cperk4's question has been answered), but how does this compare (security-wise) to connecting to your core using "https://<external_IP>" in a web browser and typing in your LMCE admin password?

How does it compare to ssh-ing in with your kubuntu password?

From the wiki page this VPN stuff looks really easy to do, but don't really understand where it fits in with the above, or what the advantages of using it are.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Any motherboard suggestions?

« on: November 25, 2013, 10:09:08 am »

You haven't said whether you are intending on using the motherboard as a hybrid or standalone core. If hybrid is what you require, then yes nVidia might not be a bad idea (although that's not to say people haven't had successes with other cards). As for which chip, personally, if I had a choice between two, I would go for the older one. But that's just me.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Composite camera as "Generic Analogue Camera"

« on: November 23, 2013, 12:58:31 pm »

Have tried setting up my analogue camera (connected via a Hauppauge PVR-150 in the core), but I'm only getting a grey screen with the message "UNABLE TO OPEN VIDEO DEVICE" when viewed in the orbiter.

I can view the camera using mplayer on the command line. I've tried it both with and without motion wrapper.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Matt.