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Users / Re: Sorry

« on: April 15, 2009, 01:51:42 pm »

I did that guys, yes the overlay looks not good, but i could live with that.

Unforrtenately the tearing still happens. Strange

Does Nvidia not have any good drivers, because they give support until the latest cards..

Ok Blu ray , i know its a commercial thing and i find DVD to be very good also.

Hardware support, i am a linux user so i know i have to choose the correct stuf.

But simple features like plugging in your sd cards from your camera , copying it to your mce and directly viewing a slideshow should realy be no hassle..
Copying a DVD without having to go in the kubuntu GUI, just with the remote control

These little features may seem small compared to the automatisation interface or voip interface, but its something probably mostly used by the novice user

Maybe the lmce guys should take these features more in account and just change that

Hi powerbits,

You're not giving us much info about your setup. ie... what series of Nvidia vga card you're running, have you installed the latest drivers etc...
I am running a quad core with and Nvidia 9xxxxx series with the latest drivers. UI 1 with no tearing. Just the occasional flicker, which I can live
with. Copying DVDs can be carried out from any Orbiter without accessing KDE. As far as the USB/picture import is concerned, you could easily
keep a windows machine around, whether it be a stand alone windows box or a virtualized instance the choice is yours. However Linux MCE is more than meets the eye.

John.

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Users / Re: Another Ion Net-top to look forward to (AspireRevo)

« on: April 08, 2009, 01:54:46 pm »

Looks very interesting, Specs are not too shabby.....

John.

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 05, 2009, 04:25:39 pm »

Dude! This is a question? I am not saying we should drop RS232....... This is an open ended question.  Read it carefully.

Learn to qoute, its hard to read who are You replying to and what You are saying.

And Yes, YOu asked a question..But Your question was leaning towards affirmitive answers So basiclly, You anwsered Your own quesiton and just wanted aproval of anybody else.
RS232 is the most common interface for any HA equipment nad AV stuff. Dont conclude anything if You didnt research much.

Geez!!! I know how to quote. Busy here. Happy???

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 05, 2009, 04:11:15 pm »

Also I am not suggesting that we DROP RS232. That would be DUMD indeed. I'm just saying that RS232 is being Phased out.
Should we follow that trend as well ?

John.

That is exactly what you suggested...in your own words...



"My point is, should we drop RS232 altogether and move towards RJ45 ?"

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7811.msg50671#msg50671

Dude! This is a question? I am not saying we should drop RS232....... This is an open ended question.  Read it carefully.


John.

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Users / Re: new guy hoping to make it work

« on: April 05, 2009, 11:09:12 am »

ok so i ran another clean install of the 32 bit version and this time i could see and hear her in the setup and everything was goin fine. but after i was all done and it comes up and acts like its starting but it then goes to the terminal screen and and gives me some error about not connecting to the X server.  i dunno what the problem is. i am waiting for my new video card i got an nvidia one so do u think this is something that will be resolved by the video card or am i missin sumthin else???  im just gettin really frustrated i have been goin at this for over a month now so if anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance,
brandon

Hi Brandon,

Have you received your Nvidia Video Card yet? Which series and model did you order? Anything in series 6-7-8, should work.


John.

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 05, 2009, 10:52:27 am »

....

*bites-his-tongue-really-hard*

We have support for just about every single _standard interconnect_ that has some sort of published standard. Just because your projector is using a proprietary connector without published protocol specifications is not our problem. Get something with a published control protocol.

-Thom

Thom,

I am aware of that. However, wouldn't it be great if there were a unified protocol under which most or all devices would be covered.
I know, Wishful thinking.

John.

Hi,

maybe you won't believe, but such thing already exists. It's called DCE... ;-)
Others already said the point. System allows you to add support for any rs232 or Ethernet device you can imagine (if you know it's protocol)...

Regards,

Bulek.

bulek,

Yes I have read about DCE (Distributed Computer Environment). I'll do some more research about it.

John.

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 04, 2009, 08:38:35 pm »

I've been trying to find a projector equipped with RS232 for my main media room
to no avail. Most of the projectors I've found so far are equipped with a service port.
It seems that the industry is moving away from RS232 and opting to implement
RJ45. Shouldn't we move in that direction as well?

Your Thoughts.


John.

For clarification RS232 is a communication protocol.  RJ45 is a cable connector (used for ethernet cat5 cabling for example) and has nothing itself to do with the communications protocols.  I have a UPS which has an RJ45 port with an adaptor to 9pin d-sub to connect to my pcs serial port which uses the RS232 protocol.  RS232 and RJ45 cannot be compared.

These terms are interchangeable these days..... RJ45/Ethernet.............  RS232/Com Port............

That was the point.

John.

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 04, 2009, 08:31:11 pm »

If you can't find a projector with RS232... you're not looking too hard...  Most projectors I've seen installed in presentation rooms are controlled over RS232.  Also, the projector running above my head right now is RS232.

No, RS232 support should not be "dropped" - that would be very dumb... why would we take a step backwards? we're trying to support MORE hardware not less...  Lots of people are using RS232 successfully - including me.  Lots of devices manufactured today can be controlled by RS232... just because the projector you want isn't, doesn't mean that the receivers, televisions, cable boxes, and other special devices that other people have don't use it... you need to look at the bigger picture before you suggest dropping a feature that isn't useful to you.

Also, TCP/IP over Ethernet (the stuff that probably comes out of this RJ45 jack you're talking about) is supported... so is USB...
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Control_A/V_equipment_with_RS232/USB/Ethernet

I am looking at the bigger picture. Look around, most New Mobos come without these ports, YES, I know with things like the GC100 we can still interface
with our RS232 equipped devices. Also I am not suggesting that we DROP RS232. That would be DUMD indeed. I'm just saying that RS232 is being Phased out.
Should we follow that trend as well ?

John.


P.S. Which Projector are you running ?

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 04, 2009, 08:16:02 pm »

....

*bites-his-tongue-really-hard*

We have support for just about every single _standard interconnect_ that has some sort of published standard. Just because your projector is using a proprietary connector without published protocol specifications is not our problem. Get something with a published control protocol.

-Thom

Thom,

I am aware of that. However, wouldn't it be great if there were a unified protocol under which most or all devices would be covered.
I know, Wishful thinking.

John.

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Users / Re: "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 04, 2009, 02:14:20 pm »

Most of the so called service ports can be used to control the devices.

And we already are able to control stuff using TCP/IP

posde,

Again, most service ports can be used for that purpose but not all.
My point is, should we drop RS232 altogether and move towards RJ45 ?

John.

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Users / "Should RS232 Be Dropped In Favor Of Other Protocols"?

« on: April 04, 2009, 01:59:53 pm »

I've been trying to find a projector equipped with RS232 for my main media room
to no avail. Most of the projectors I've found so far are equipped with a service port.
It seems that the industry is moving away from RS232 and opting to implement
RJ45. Shouldn't we move in that direction as well?

Your Thoughts.


John.

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Users / Re: New Forum Layout for 810

« on: April 02, 2009, 10:45:27 pm »

Good Idea Krys.

John.

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Users / Re: Full support of Gyration Remote development work - Contributors please post

« on: April 02, 2009, 10:38:38 pm »

Count Me In.

John.

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Users / Re: Did FIIRE go away.

« on: April 01, 2009, 11:03:40 pm »

Yep ! fiire is no more.


John.

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Users / Re: Run LinuxMCE in a VPS (Openvz) ?

« on: April 01, 2009, 10:17:56 pm »

Hi Mami,

Just installed VMWare Server 1.0.8. without a hitch. Here's a screenshot of
a virtualized instance of Win XP Pro. Of course you can virtualize and run
as many OSes as your resources can handle.

John.


P.S. During the setup process, when asked which interface your vmware network  should bind itself to,
      choose the internal NIC. Typically (eth1). otherwise you won't be able to remote access your VM from other
      stations within your Local Area Network.