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Users / No Orbiter on Core

« on: December 14, 2011, 09:56:19 pm »

I hardly ever use the core as an orbiter, but I had updated about a few weeks back and I noticed that after a reboot, a few days ago, the computer just goes write into KDE as if it was a kubuntu install.  I'm using 1004 and all mds are working fine.  Everything seems to be working great... but no MD on the core...

wierd...

Any suggestions?

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Users / [SOLVED] another hdmi audio issue?

« on: September 06, 2011, 05:15:11 am »

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Audio_over_HDMI

refers to: All of them should be unmuted. Press 'm' to unmute, and the right and left arrows to navigate. Then select 'HDA NVidia NVIDIA HDMI (ALSA)' as output for all items in 'Sound Prefrences' and select 'HDA NVidia (Alsa mixer)' as the mixer.

whats 'Sound Prefrences'?

heres the results of aplay -l

root@moon122:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I set hdmi in avwizard and umuted everything, am I missing something???

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Users / All MDs are down

« on: August 17, 2011, 05:33:47 am »

I got home today from work and all three of my Media Directors are giving the same error messages at boot.

They get their initial address via dhcpand start loading their respective initrd.img

then it says "Loading, please wait..."

then we see all the nice ip info followed by: filename : /tftpboot/pxelinux.0

then immediately followed by "connect: Connection refused"

at the end it says:

mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootrag

..............

The core seems to be working fine... I've rebooted it and it boots fine.

Please help I've been running this system for about a year and its worked great.  I'm just beginning to really understand how this system works, but I just dont understand whats going on here...

Thanks.

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Users / media keyboard

« on: May 25, 2011, 12:32:51 am »

after I reinstalled a while back I noticed my media buttons on the keyboard don't work.  Is that still an issue?

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Users / Probem with camera device from orbiters

« on: February 11, 2011, 02:29:17 pm »

I don't know if I missed something, but I reinstalled the core using the latest snapshot this weekend and worked fairly well (I will update the wiki and check the tickets as Saturday night).  I'm having a small issue I didn't have before and thate security camera setup... 

Motion records perfectly and has all the folders setup correct (had to fix the permissions inside /home/cameras/) but it is saving the latest shots, recordings, timelapse, etc.  These are analog cameras using a bluecherry capture card. 

So, everythings cool; but when I click on the device using the padorbiter or any on-screen orbiter (including webadmin).  I don't get a picture.  according to syslog motion seems to start up fine; I can even see a picture if I access "http://dcerouter:<motion created port>"

Is this this a known issue with the lastest snapshot or am I missing something...

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Developers / motion wrapper update/patch

« on: October 08, 2010, 07:38:10 pm »

I have a few WinTV (150 and 1600) tuner cards that have variours inputs, so I purchased 3 analog surveillance cameras to connected to those extra ports and use them as security cameras.  Everything seemed to go well (creating motion_wrapper, adding generic analog cameras, correctly setting the port (s-video, or RCA)).  But then a hit a brick wall which is described here by a different user:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/wintv-pvr-150-and-motion-mmap-unsupported-690274/

this is supposed to fix it:

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionWinTVPVRCardSupport

Is anyone here familiar enough with motion_wrapper to help/instruct me on how to patch/update the "motion" part of "motion_wrapper".  I think an update to it would probably add some more devices to the ever expanding list of LinuxMCE compatible devices (am I correct in asuming analog video cameras cannot be added using a capture card without it being compatible with motion_wrapper??) and I have a nice bit of programming knowledge to I'm sure I could help a bit. I just need some pointers / advices / help from someone that KNOWS how this works.

Thanks.

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Users / intel video drivers

« on: September 07, 2010, 07:13:35 am »

I'm dong some experimenting with an Intel mini itx motherboard and everything installed great I put UI2 on the avwizard and it seems to show everything cool at a low res (1024x768), but I notice that the xorg driver is vesa not intel.  So I change it to intel, but it would seem that the 3150 that his mb uses isn't supported by the intel driver that are loaded. 

(I think I'm doing this right...)

so I downloaded the drivers from  http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2010Q2.html and try to compile them, but I get the message:

checking for XORG... configure: error: Package requirements (xorg-server >= 1.6 xproto fontsproto  randrproto renderproto xextproto x11 xextproto) were not met:                                                                                                                                                         

Requested 'xorg-server >= 1.6' but version of xorg-server is 1.5.2

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.                     

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XORG_CFLAGS
and XORG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.             
See the pkg-config man page for more details.                   

Any suggestions on how to get around this or am I just not going about this correctly? Is there another way to get X to run with the intel drivers?

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Users / asterisk - intercom

« on: August 20, 2010, 04:55:58 pm »

I haven't started configuring the telecomunications part yet, but I bought a few microphones for two mds I have.  I plan on first testing the intercom functionality and then connecting it to a VoIP provider.  But, when I connected the microphones and tried to call another md, I get a message saying "Calling... Please wait" and nothing ever happens. 

Any suggestions on what I should look at to begin troubleshooting this?  I understand that there were some issues with asterisk, but I did the apt-get update and it seemed to install new versions of simplephone and stuff.  The intercom functionality should work out of the box, right?

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Users / apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

« on: August 16, 2010, 01:13:58 am »

I'm not sure if I'm doing something incorrectly, but when I run "apt-get update"  on my md I get the follow at the end:

Fetched 11.9kB in 2s (4946B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

then when I type "apt-get upgrade"  I get the following:

root@moon88:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libxine-dev libxine1 libxine1-all-plugins libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-dbg libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-gnome libxine1-misc-plugins
  libxine1-plugins libxine1-x
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.

I did manually install a xine patch a while back (altho I don't think that has anything do with the message I'm receiving now from apt-get)

joerod,

Your problem is related to xine. Not vdpau as demux of audio/video is done i software and not hw.
The demuxed video data is passed to gpu through vdpau and hence offloaded from cpu.

As TSCHAK pointed out we have a version of Xine that is unable to demux newer matroska containers in current release because we are unable to get vdr to run with the my backported version. I have started to look at how to port vdpau to xine 1.1.18.1. It´s a huge job that need to be done manually.
If you do not use vdr your problem can be solved either by installing the updated xine 1.1.16.3 with mkv backports as suggested or by building your own xinelib >1.1.17.
Unfortunately any version newer of xine than 1.1.16.3 do not have vdpau because the Xine devel team decided to focus on upcoming version 1.2 instead.
Before you ask I can say that v1.2 is not a possible road due to so much dependencies on newer libraries and also because 1.2 is not abi compatible with 1.1.x releases.

/niz23

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or if this even a problem, but and feedback is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Users / Web DT 366 Image

« on: June 24, 2010, 12:00:42 am »

I just got my hands on a WebDT 366 GX and I'm pretty sure its the sameone Ive seen on the videos.  Seems like the ultimate remote, but the link on the wiki is down and I couldn't find a link here so I figured I ask to see if someone knew of a working like to the WebDT366 orbiter image.

Thanks

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Installation issues / PROBLEM w/ cx88-dvb and WinTV NOVA-S-PLUS

« on: December 03, 2008, 07:24:58 pm »

I've spent alot of time trying to setup the NOVA-S-PLUS DVB-S card on a default installation of LMCE according to a post on here that card should be 100% compatible with LMCE; but it won't work.  Basically it seems to detect everything on the card except dvb.  So I end up with /dev/video0 but no /dev/dvb.

According to : http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=3785.0

The card should work perfectly; but the cx88-dvb driver will not load.  Please help, I don't want to return to Windows