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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Splash Screen - an end in sight

« on: August 30, 2010, 04:33:50 am »

thanks huh.  Yes, I saw that ticket, castlec did some good work.  The 'full source' link isn't working for me and the splash included in the tarball in the ticket didn't work completely.  Nice idea though, has the progress bar on Tux's screen... I learned a lot from it. 

J.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Splash Screen - an end in sight

« on: August 29, 2010, 03:51:49 pm »

Thanks fastie81 for trying it out!  You had to run the update-initramfs because lmce is not updating the kernel symlink in / to the newest kernel (only if you've done a dvd install, a net install should not exhibit this problem).  I believe I know why but have to test a couple things to get that fixed.

As for extending the bootsplash right until Xwindows starts.  I\ve got that done as well but the changes are not part of the bootsplash image itself so they'll be added to svn seperately.  I have my system booting with the splash screen on until X starts, no spurious terminal switches or boot text showing.

J.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Splash Screen - a start

« on: August 28, 2010, 11:22:41 pm »

A new version, very much improved in my mind.  New throbber (progress bar) inspired by merkur2k's design (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=8280.msg55004#msg55004) of more than a year ago now.

New preview is attached.

Download: Follow the link in the first post.
http://uploading.com/files/337e24da/usplash-theme-linuxmce_0.2-1_i386.deb/

Install:

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# dpkg -i usplash-theme-linuxme_0.2-1_i386.deb
You can switch between installed themes like this:

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# update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so
# update-initramfs -u -k all
I'm going to try to wrap this up, submit it to svn and add the package definition to the database.  I've tested adding it to the dvd installer and it works great there as well so I'll try to add the changes for that over the next couple of days as well.  Seperately I think I've solved the remaining splash/boot issues posted by TSCHAK (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9726.0) and I'll try to wrap that up into svn as well.  

J.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Splash Screen - a start

« on: August 28, 2010, 11:02:58 pm »

It doesn't overwrite any files.  You can choose your splash screen from the console with:

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update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so
To remove it from your system you can apt-get remove the package.

J.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Splash Screen - a start

« on: August 27, 2010, 03:43:26 pm »

Your welcome.  I'm trying to remove the kubuntu specific branding from the boot/shutdown screens (and ultimately the dvd install) and I'm going to see if I can tackle any of the other issues mentioned by Thom here: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9726.0

J.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Splash Screen - a start

« on: August 26, 2010, 11:54:34 pm »

I'm glad you like it.  The image is the lmce logo from the wiki, ddamron posted the logos originally.  I simply applied a single effect to it and moved the progress bar to the bottom.

Because I only have a very limited amount of hardware to test, could you share with me:
1. what video card you use (intel xxxx, nvidia xxx, etc...)
2. The video connection method (vga, hdmi, dvi, svga, ...)
3. The avwizard resolution you use
2. is the splash screen garbled or showing correctly on shutdown

Thanks!

J.

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Installation issues / Re: How to keep LinuxMCE up-to-date with updates

« on: August 25, 2010, 04:17:59 pm »

The lower section should be removed to properly permit updates.  Recent changes have made that portion of preferences obsolete and it can interfere with getting updates.

J.

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Users / Re: Versions Snapshot 8.10

« on: August 23, 2010, 03:57:49 pm »

Yes.

J

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Users / LinuxMCE Splash Screen - an end in sight

« on: August 23, 2010, 03:45:39 pm »

Although I've seen some concept art, I have not yet seen a functional boot splash screen for LinuxMCE.  I had some spare time so I learned a little debian packaging and played (a little) with The GIMP.  The result, a splash screen for LinuxMCE to test.  This is by no means a finished product, and I am not a graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination, but I want to know how well it works for people.  Try it out and let me know!

Grab the .deb here: http://www.4shared.com/file/RtI1aYPs/usplash-theme-linuxmce_02-1_i3.html

Install (as root):

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dpkg -i usplash-theme-linuxmce_0.2-1_i386.deb

update-initramfs was updating an older kernel on my system so I had to execute the following to force it to build a new initrd.gz for the kernel I'm using:

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update-initramfs -k $(uname -r) -u

If you run an nvidia card.... I had to add a vga=xxx line to defoptions in /boot/grub/menu.list and run update-grub to have a working splash on shutdown.  My EeePC didn't need this worked without a vga=xxx line,

The package is simply the xubuntu-artwork-usplash repacked in a new .deb with new images/throbber location (which is centered at the bottom of the image but not shown in the attached file).

It's likely to change but if you don't like it or don't want to keep it you can 'apt-get remove' the package and you'll return to the kubuntu splash.

J.

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Users / Re: Versions Snapshot 8.10

« on: August 23, 2010, 02:59:34 pm »

The snapshots are are numbered by svn revision, so you can tell which are the latest by highest svn revision in the file name.

The files you point to that show a size of '2' are snapshots that did not build correctly.  You won't have much luck with a 2 byte DVD. ;-)  Use a snapshot that is 3.8G (note that this could change, not likely to get any smaller though...)  Typically the most recent snapshot is the one to go with just remember that snapshots are just that - snapshot of the source code at a given moment.  Some contain bugs, some work well, some don't work at all.

Hope that helps.

J.

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Installation issues / Re: How to keep LinuxMCE up-to-date with updates

« on: August 23, 2010, 02:49:58 pm »

Sorry 'bout that it should've been a '-i /etc/apt/sources.list' on that line to remove the avenard repo.

Glad to hear you've got updates again!

J.

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Installation issues / Re: FIXED: Make the DVD actually install from the DVD instead of the internet

« on: August 21, 2010, 10:00:19 pm »

I had built and tested a DVD before submitting the changes, but I've also done multiple installs of the Aug 18, 23248 snapshot and it's using the local repo during installation and during Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh and MDs have access to it after creation.  If /usr/pluto/bin/deb-cache can be kept up to date when the core updates then the MDs will have access to updates without having to re-dl them.

I've only been waiting for a repo update to verify that apt is seeing updates properly before I'm fully satisfied.  Have you any updated .debs to throw in the repo?  :-)

J.

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Installation issues / Re: Make the DVD actually install from the DVD instead of the internet

« on: August 21, 2010, 09:40:42 pm »

For anyone following along the required changes were submitted to svn and are in the Aug 18, 2010 (23248) snapshot.  No repository signing was required.  If you have signed your local repository using the script you should still have no problems updating your system.

J.

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Installation issues / Re: How to keep LinuxMCE up-to-date with updates

« on: August 21, 2010, 09:35:34 pm »

The snapshots have all current changes/updates as of the moment they are created.  If you have installed from a recent snapshop then you would have the recent changes already.

Many of the snapshots have been problematic with updates.  If your snapshot install was prior to Aug 18, 2010 then there are some things you can do that should enable updates again properly.  I'll try to make this easy and painless.  Execute each of these from the terminal prompt as you have been doing already:

Remove the avenard repository from /etc/apt/sources.list:

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sudo sed -e '/avenard/d' -i /etc/apt/sources.list

Re-order the local repository properly in sources.list:

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sudo sed -e '/deb-cache/d' -e '1ideb file:\/usr\/pluto\/deb-cache .\/' -i /etc/apt/sources.list

Set apt preferences properly:

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sudo echo 'Package: mythtv mythtv-frontend mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-transcode-utils mythweb libmythtv-perl libmyth python-myth mythtv-themes mythplugins mytharchive mytharchive-data mythbrowser mythgallery mythgame mythmovies mythmusic mythnetvison mythnetvision-data mythnews mythvideo mythweather mythzoneminder myth-doc  
Pin: origin deb.linuxmce.org
Pin-Priority: 1001
'  | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences

Update your package lists and try to upgrade:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Try that out and let me know how it goes.

J.

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Installation issues / Re: Make the DVD actually install from the DVD instead of the internet

« on: August 14, 2010, 01:10:51 am »

Okay, since I'b been back I've been playing a little... and although I believe that signing the repo is the ultimately the proper way to go, it needs some additional glue to keep everything synchronized.

But... I've had great success with removing the pinning, re-ordering the sources.list (placing the local repo above all others) and doing an apt-get update.  No signing required.  I'm going to test this a few more times and when I'm happy that it's not a co-incidence I'll create, and submit, a proper patch.

J.