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Installation issues / Re: FYI - No audio or Sarah on 12.04 - at least for me Feb11 & 14 builds.

« on: February 21, 2014, 02:26:15 pm »

Hi,

Sorry for the delay I attempted to install the internet install to see if that worked but it was also a no go Kubuntu installed a driver for graphics before the LinuxMCE install but then left me with the AV wizard not running and the setup wizard started going mad and adding not just my drives but also itself dcerouter as a file share and still I had the no video issue.

So I have again attempted the DVD install and I have the same issue I had with the graphics driver as before, last time I resolved this by downloading and installing the Nvidia driver manually from a usb stick with the file I got from the Nvidia website which worked fine except for the no video issue.

Worth noting as well is that I have to edit the Grub boot line with nomodeset and turn off the splash and quiet boot to get this far otherwise I just get invalid format on my tv but attached is a picture of how far I get before it reboots and then I get an unlimited loop of this loading trying to install nvidia-current then shutdown then try again etc.

Does anyone have any further suggestions how to proceed? the graphics card if you cant make it out is Nvidia GT218 [Geforce 210] with a PCI-ID of PCI-0a65

Many thanks for your help.
 

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Installation issues / Re: FYI - No audio or Sarah on 12.04 - at least for me Feb11 & 14 builds.

« on: February 17, 2014, 07:40:20 pm »

hi,

its all video that i don't get a picture for just the audio don't matter if its dvd, video files or sarah on the set up its like its hidden on a different screen as i can even fast forward and rewind video, very strange but if anyone has any suggestions please let us know

cheers

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Installation issues / Re: FYI - No audio or Sarah on 12.04 - at least for me.

« on: February 15, 2014, 10:39:17 pm »

hi i have the same issue audio is fine but no video, if i play video it plays but i just get the sound, it all worked fine in 10.04, i did dvd install but had t manually install nvidia driver as auto installed one failed does anyone have any ideas? cheers

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Users / Re: Automatic adding Internet Radio streams to LinuxMCE

« on: January 12, 2014, 10:14:33 pm »

in the uk follow the link in the script http://opml.radiotime.com/Browse.ashx?c=local then copy the address for your area so for london copy this http://opml.radiotime.com/Browse.ashx?id=r100780 and then open the script in nano or other editor and amend the variable at the top of the script named DownloadURL with the new address save and then run to add uk stations in your area, it works great thank you for this

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Users / Re: Lost in ATI HDMI land

« on: December 27, 2011, 11:03:21 pm »

Hi,

I had issues with HDMI audio over ati on board graphics as well, in the end I just went into the bios & disabled all onboard sound which sounds stupid I know but it will still out put digital audio over HDMI but means the system won't have issues selecting the correct sound card.

If that is not working look at alsamixer make sure the HDMI is not muted & possibly update alsa to the newest version if needed as this is no longer done during install.

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Installation issues / Re: Canvassing for expereince with single NIC hybrid

« on: December 23, 2011, 12:14:14 pm »

If you don't want all the hassle you can of course just use a Wifi Bridge between MD's and the core via a router, there quite cheap online.

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Installation issues / Re: AV wizard freezes when selecting an audio input on MD only Core/Hybrid is fine

« on: August 22, 2011, 01:25:38 pm »

Thanks Bongowongo I thought it could be related to the resolution but I have tried every refresh rate available on the AV wizard and the wizard still works (except being difficult to see what your doing at times) until I get to selecting an audio connection.

I have tried connecting via HDMI and via VGA with optical audio but both have the same issue, its so strange I didn't know there was that much communication between the device and the display until now.

The TV by the way is an LG 50PS6000, I have looked at the manual which is available here: http://www.lg.com/uk/tv-audio-video/televisions/LG-plasma-tv-50PS6000.jsp and this states that the best selection for VGA is 1920x1080 at 60Hz but I have already tried this without luck.

I also tried to enable the EDID in the Xorg.cong file and then even tried to create a modeline for the display as well but this also didn't work.

If I kill the AV wizard and run /usr/pluto/bin/Start_KDE.sh i get to the KDE desktop and the screen looks great it seems to just be when it creates anything interactive like audio on X11 that it freezes.

Does anybody have any other ideas.

 

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Installation issues / Re: AV wizard freezes when selecting an audio input on MD only Core/Hybrid is fine

« on: August 21, 2011, 12:09:59 am »

Just another update, after spending about 2 weeks pulling my hair out over this issue I decided I would try plugging the MD into the Tv in the bedroom and all of a sudden it all worked without issue. But if I take the MD back to the main room and plug it in to the tv there the problem comes back again with a blank screen and a mouse.

So what the bloody hell is going on here, it would seem that there is no issue with the MD its just it doesn't play nicely with my LG Plasma, so does anyone have any to suggestions to fix this cos i'm stumped.

Thanks


Daniel

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Installation issues / Re: AV wizard freezes when selecting an audio input on MD only Core/Hybrid is fine

« on: August 16, 2011, 01:24:47 pm »

Ok So a little update, Yesterday evening I tried once again a fresh install but I decided to try and install from the repo using a slightly outdated installer script the version was beta 2.8 I think.

The reason being that I though maybe something had been updated recently that might not be playing nicely with my Acer Revo (r3610 I believe). During the install the ALSA driver was updated which i have found is now disabled by default and the core started straight away on the AV wizard I didn't even need to go get the ATI drivers like normal although I think it was using the VESA driver as the quality was crap.

As the ATI drivers were not installed I was hopeful that the Revo would this time make it through the audio section of the AV wizard but sadly the same issue arose when selecting any audio input it just freezes with no sound and if I select no sound the AV Wizard goes away builds the orbiter and then just hangs on a blank screen with a mouse.

Because of this Im sure the ATI driver in the core has no relation to the issue, I would be so grateful if someone could offer a few pointers, has anyone recently rebuild there core and had issues netbooting a Revo or any other Ion based Atom board?

Thanks again


Daniel 

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Installation issues / AV wizard freezes when selecting an audio input on MD only Core/Hybrid is fine

« on: August 15, 2011, 02:53:26 pm »

Hi all,

I'm currently pulling my hair out trying to get my Acer Revo to net boot as a MD and I really hope someone can help.

I will give you a quick overview of recent changes then explain the issue as it maybe related. 

So I had 0810 all working fine for about a year or two but recently my motherboard on my core just died so I got a new Asus board with an AMD phoneme which unlocked to 4 cores whooho.

Unfortunately the board has an ATI graphics card which I know isn't great plus it has the annoying r8168 gigabit ethernet chip as well so not really the best but it did get 4 cores up from a 2 core chip so its worth the extra work I thought and actually it does work quite well, I install the latest repo version of LinuxMCE 0810, then run a script to blacklist and recompile the correct ethernet driver and downloaded and installed the ATI driver from AMD's site and then LinuxMCE installed with ease and as far as I can see everything works fine and as expected on the hybrid.

So the issue I have given that the new core should have been the real pain in the arse and wasn't is with my Acer Revo, which is widely regarded as supported and every other time I have needed to reinstall my core on the old motherboard has never had an issue.
However now it PXE boots fine and the core runs the createdisklessMD.sh or something like that, then it reboots installs the Nvidia 195 drivers, reboots again then beeps and I press Q or 1 to get to the AV wizard as I'm connected through HDMI and its great and thus far all works as expected but then when I get to the select audio connection and I press on anything other than no sound it just freezes on the wizard and I never see the screen with the speaker to adjust the volume.

I did manually run the AV wizard from the terminal to get a bit more information and it shows when I select an audio connection that Xine plays an audio file but I never hear it and I can see any errors.

Also if I do select no sound in the wizard I get past the AV wizard and all the white text shows up but after it says starting onscreen orbiter I see a flicker of a window opening and then just a black screen with an operational mouse pointer.

As a result I first thought it must have something to do with the ALSA version so I tried first to install the alsa modules but that didn't help, so then I downloaded a script to manually download and compile ALSA to 1.0.24 but this also didnt help, so then I tried to download the latest Nvida driver from there site but this also hasn't fixed the issue.

The final steps I have now taken are reinstalling the whole system first with the latest snapshot and then with the currently recommended snapshot, then one I had from 2010 and another that I found from 2009 which I knew worked back then but had issues with the sources.list obviously

All installed fine on the core/hybrid but have the same issue with the MD, its driving me mad Please Please can someone offer some suggestions, the only thing I can think of is that the ATI driver is somehow affecting things on the core and that this then moves down to the diskless MD image, if thats the case I'm happy to disable the core's graphics card and buy an Nvida one to add in but would this really help?

Many thanks and sorry its a little long winded just thought the background my help.

Daniel


 

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Installation issues / Re: PXE Booting a MAC How to

« on: June 05, 2011, 08:28:30 pm »

I hope this is of some use to someone, I have tried to edit the current mac mini wiki page but when I save my changes I get told I'm blocked from editing the post by bongowongo due to possible spamming? sorry if this can be changes I will happily add to the wiki for others.
Thanks

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Installation issues / PXE Booting a MAC How to

« on: June 03, 2011, 01:06:02 pm »

Hi all,

I have been using LinuxMCE for a few years now but this is my first post so hello all.

I have had an old Mini Mac connected to my main TV for a while and find I really dont use it to much so decided it would make a great media director, of course theres the old issue of PXE booting the Mac but after a few months of searching I think I have found the answer and since I couldn't find it on here I thought I would share.

If like me you have been looking forever how to do this you will like me kick yourself with how easy it is.

First go here: h**p://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-git/gpxe.git/contrib/rom-o-matic/ and select the output format to "ISO bootable image", the NIC to "all-drivers" and then leave the rest all blank as is.
Then select the "Get image" button to download the iso file.

Once downloaded burn the iso to a blank disk and put it into your mac, then either reboot the mac and hold the control key or alt key (if you have a standard keyboard) during boot and select the cd, or in OSX go to system pref -> startup disk -> then select the cd and reboot (this will then always boot from the cd until you press the control key as above and select the hardrive).

As the cd loads it will start a small linux distro and create a pxe enviroment and then pxe to the core as normal, once your on linuxmce you can of course eject the disk until you need to reboot.

I have tested this process many times and it works great.

I do have an issue at the moment though which some of you maybe able to help with it seems that the av wizard freezes on the audio connection option unless I select no sound and even then when Sarah should pop up i get a black screen with a mouse, I think I know the reason and its to do with the intel drivers and alsa version however when I try to download the toolchains to compile the alsa module the apt-get freezes at about 46%, I thought this maybe due to the sources list but they are identical to the ones on my core and my acer revo which compliled the new alsa drivers fine, Im tempted to do a complete restore of the system with the current snapshot anyway unless anyone has an idea what this could be.

Many thanks


Daniel