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Installation issues / Re: Diskless MD and installation of graphics drivers

« on: August 22, 2007, 10:07:43 pm »

Thanks all.

This worked fine for me :-)

-sveinh

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Users / Re: Windows music files copied to LinxMCE "Public" not seen

« on: August 21, 2007, 11:55:27 pm »

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, and the script seems to confirm that it has added the entries into the MySQL database. But, when I reboot and launch the orbiter, the albums are not displayed.

I am expeiencing the same thing. All info is in mysql, but nothing shows up in the media player.

-s

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Installation issues / Diskless MD and installation of graphics drivers

« on: August 21, 2007, 11:38:04 pm »

Hi all

I've got a Zonbu computer (www.zonbu.com) which I want to use as a diskless MD. It boots off the network and everything looks great until it tries to run X and the AVwizard. The onboard graphics card driver (Via cx700) is not supported out of the box. I installed LinuxMCE 704 from the DVD.

I think I have found linux drivers to support my graphics chip but I'm unable to gain root priveleges to install.

I can log on to the diskless MD using linuxmce/linuxmce, but it seems like I'm getting logged on as sambahelper, and this user does not have sudo rights.

So, my questions: how do I gain sudo rights on the diskless MD? Anyone?

In advance, thanks!

-sveinh

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Installation issues / Re: LinuxMCE not detecting my GF 8600GT GFX Card.

« on: August 18, 2007, 09:50:46 pm »

I found a workaround

1) Start KDE on the MD, open a web browser and download the correct driver from Nvidia
2) Log in to the Core with ssh (from any PC) and typed sudo -s press enter
3) Then ssh to the media director and typed sudo -s press enter
4) Type telinit 1 and press enter. The ssh link to the media director got lost....
5) On the MD press CTRL/ALT/F1 and type sudo -s press enter and it does not ask for a password.
6) Installations of the nvidia driver was easy, just write sh <drivername> and follow the intstructions.

After a reboot I selected the audio/video wizard on the MD gui, and it restarted to a black screen (AV Wizard), I pressed 1 once on the keyboard, waited and the Wizard was visible, now UI2 w/alpha blending works great Now I just have to get 1366x768@66hz working for my display....

This did not work for me. Anyone know how to be able to use sudo from a diskless md? I can log on using linuxmce/linuxmce, but it seems like I'm logged on as "sambahelper", and it's password is not know.

Anyone?

-s

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Users / Re: Presentation of media

« on: August 16, 2007, 01:54:56 pm »

I'm not sure what you mean by "auto-sense" what's in the media folder. LinuxMCE does know what kind of media it is. Actually, it may take a little while for the UpdateMedia script to flag everything in the database, but I know it does do this... Sometimes even when I'd rather it not...

I guess it has something to do with the music player. What I would like to do is to browse my music based on the meta-informaton in the mp3s in various ways, by artist, by album, by .......whatever. Whenever displaying a list of alubms, I would like to the the album-art pictures, when listing songs, I would like to the se album-art picture once, not for every file in the list.

-s

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Users / Re: Presentation of media

« on: August 14, 2007, 03:48:37 pm »

thanks for your suggestion.

But, for 15 thousant songs, all in albums, the task would be tremendous!

Is LinuxMCE using the same media browser for files, music, pictures etc?

Would it noe be possible to tell the viewer (or have it auto-sense) what media is in the folders?

-s

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Users / Presentation of media

« on: August 14, 2007, 12:40:47 am »

Hi.

I've been able to get mp3s onto my core and they display on the MDs oki.

It seems that when browsing the music, the browser displays every folder and every file trying to show a picture for all of them.

Is there a way that I can specify that only the folder (e.g. CD) display coverart, and when opening a CD, the songs are displayed without showing album-art for every song on the CD?

Thanks!

-s

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Installation issues / Re: 2 Network cards needed for core ?

« on: August 12, 2007, 09:38:21 pm »

Oki, I understand that the core should have the dhcp server running on it for discovery etc.

Would it be fair to ask if it has to be the default gateway in the network? If not, would the following be possible?

Internet -- dsl modem (10.0.0.1), nat, no dhcp server
                   |-- LinuxMCE (static 10.0.0.2), dhcp server stating default GW = 10.0.0.1
                                                     10.0.0.10-100 for diskless MDs
                                                     10.0.0.100-254 for other dhcp clients
                   |-- MDs booting from 10.0.0.2
                   |-- other machines dhcp-client


This could mean that if you boot a machine using dhcp-client it would get the dsl-modem as default IP, and the network traffic would not need to go through the LinuxMCE box.

In advance, thanks!

-s

I see no reason why this shouldn't work, and it sounds a lot more sane then the other approach, which in the worst case simply cuts your available bandwith in half.  Usually the outside line itself is a much bigger bottleneck though, but still.

I don't see any options in the web-admin to change these settings, so you might have to try and change "option routers" in "/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf", and of course there is always a chance that LinuxMCE wil overwrite those settings sooner or later.

One final question would be: can the diskless MDs boot from the core when it's not the standard gateway? Anyone?

-s

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Installation issues / Re: 2 Network cards needed for core ?

« on: August 11, 2007, 03:25:44 am »

Oki, I understand that the core should have the dhcp server running on it for discovery etc.

Would it be fair to ask if it has to be the default gateway in the network? If not, would the following be possible?

Internet -- dsl modem (10.0.0.1), nat, no dhcp server
                   |-- LinuxMCE (static 10.0.0.2), dhcp server stating default GW = 10.0.0.1
                                                     10.0.0.10-100 for diskless MDs
                                                     10.0.0.100-254 for other dhcp clients
                   |-- MDs booting from 10.0.0.2
                   |-- other machines dhcp-client


This could mean that if you boot a machine using dhcp-client it would get the dsl-modem as default IP, and the network traffic would not need to go through the LinuxMCE box.

In advance, thanks!

-s