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thezfunk:
Another issue.
I redid the UI with alpha blending and it seems to work well!
The problem is I tried to go to the KDE desktop and now it has an error that says:
The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
No write access to '/home/my user name/.ICEauthority'.
KDE is unable to start.
If I can't get to KDE desktop how do I get a console window open?
Any ideas?
thezfunk:
I still can't get to the KDE desktop but I did remember I can use Putty from another machine. So, that's what I have been doing in the mean time.
DVD playback
It wouldn't work. I would get the DVDCSS error. I searched all over the forums and the wiki. What the wiki suggested I do didn't work and the forum posts pointed me in the right direction but nobody ever posted exactly what to do. I even tried running a program for setting region codes. http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/ That didn't work either.
TO THE INTERNETS! Luckily, I found information through Google. Google = My LinuxMCE buddy.
This is what I did to get DVD playback from my drive to work. I ended up installing Restricted Formats https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#Ubuntu 9.04 ,8.10, 8.04 and 7.10 and libdvdcss https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs#Ubuntu 8.10 (i386, amd64)
Exact commands for 0810:
Restricted Formats:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
libdvdcss:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
then
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
I still need help with the major KDE fail.
thezfunk:
--- Quote from: thezfunk on August 20, 2009, 07:05:18 am ---
The problem is I tried to go to the KDE desktop and now it has an error that says:
The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
No write access to '/home/my user name/.ICEauthority'.
KDE is unable to start.
If I can't get to KDE desktop how do I get a console window open?
Any ideas?
--- End quote ---
Judging from what I have found, this is a permissions issue within Kubuntu not LinuxMCE. Now I just have to figure out the solution.
EDIT: I have found the suggestion of deleting or changing the permissions to the .ICEauthory file in the home directory. I have tried both and it still doesn't work. Now though, LinuxMCE dumps me to a gray screen with a white pointer when I try to go to the KDE desktop. This one has got me stumped!
thezfunk:
I did get the ALSA drivers updated! Again, specifics were either lacking or didn't work from my searches here so I went out to the greater cloud and found something that did work.
http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg24828.html
I followed those instructions and updated to the newest ALSA drivers and all sound still works.
thezfunk:
Well Ok,
I was at a stopping point, until today! I received my HDHomeRun from Newegg. It was 138 bucks with a special promo code. I put it on the internal network and LinuxMCE just found it and started setting everything up. The only issue is when I went to set it up in MythTV. Everytime I would setup a video source it wouldn't take anything I did. Everytime I hit 'Finish' it would crash? back to LinuxMCE. I am not sure why or how I fixed it. Eventually, using the keyboard, I navigated the menus and it took the info without crashing back to LinuxMCE on one attempt. I don't recall doing anything special it just suddenly worked. Now I can watch TV. I haven't gone much past that. I still have a lot to do with it before it would be fully usable but I got a channel scan done and I can view the channels. Just a quick update today.
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