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Installation issues / Re: No TV Capture, no onboard sound, no network boot, slow.

« on: January 17, 2008, 11:52:25 pm »

I have a couple other TV Capture cards I had lying around that I'll be trying out, neither of them are on the "works for sure" list, so I'll be finding out if they work.

As for sound cards, going out and getting just about any mid-range card should work, correct? Being as most of them are supported?

Also, can I boot media directors without hard drives from the DVD? That would get around my network boot issue, being as running a second network through the house is kind of a no-go as of now.


Edit:
Okay, got my original TV Capture card kind of working, I only have 13 channels (I had upwards of 70 on my PC using DScaler), and no Audio (I have heard theres a fix for this using the Linux audio mapping, it's being fed in through line in).

Also, I'm assuming you need a cable box to pull guide information, hmm.

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Installation issues / Re: No TV Capture, no onboard sound, no network boot, slow.

« on: January 16, 2008, 10:29:53 pm »

Ok, thanks, didn't know DHCP was related to the PXE boot service,

As for the TV Capture/Sound issues, I'm just SOL and need to buy new hardware?

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Installation issues / Re: No TV Capture, no onboard sound, no network boot, slow.

« on: January 15, 2008, 09:45:22 pm »

Network booting, the main reason I want this MCE, the ability to distribute video to any computer in the house, I had to disable DHCP on the media center because it was interfering with the DHCP of the main router, however when a network machine tries to network boot, it hangs at getting a DHCP address and finding a bootable device, why would that be? I even turned off the firewall and still got nothing, also tried adding the machine manually as a Media Director, but no go.

So you've turned off the DHCP server, and now you're wondering why PXE booting doesn't work... 

So PXE booting requires the DHCP server to ALSO be the network boot server? Because I use an alternate DHCP server. Is there a way to tell the primary DHCP server to forward network boot requests?

I would figure that PXE boot would do a DHCP request, get that from the main DHCP server, then do another broadcast message to look for PXE boot devices on the network.

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Installation issues / No TV Capture, no onboard sound, no network boot, slow.

« on: January 15, 2008, 08:38:16 am »

First my specs:

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Chip: AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Motherboard: A7N8X-E
TV Capture Card: Pinnacle (Unknown model?)
1.5GB of RAM
80GB HD
PCI ATI Video card (Unknown model)

First, installation went ok, however after installation I got notices that OpenGL couldn't start, however the first time the error was above the screen so I couldn't read it, after a fresh install this was fixed and I ended up going with the old style layout (card couldn't handle it, thats fine).

First step: No sound, eek! Appears onboard sound of the A7N8X-E doesn't work, however it seems people here have used that board before but haven't reported a problem, thats ok, I got an older soundblaster, oops, it's full of static (but I have audio now!), looks like I need a new audio card. Only gets static once Linux boots... hmm.

Next step: TV Capture card... well sure isn't auto-detected like the video said, actually even if I go into the settings and manually let it pick it up, LinuxMCE still doesn't think it exists (even though it picks up a Pinnacle TV Capture card). Pick up a better video card? Sure... if I find out LinuxMCE is still worth it.

Network booting, the main reason I want this MCE, the ability to distribute video to any computer in the house, I had to disable DHCP on the media center because it was interfering with the DHCP of the main router, however when a network machine tries to network boot, it hangs at getting a DHCP address and finding a bootable device, why would that be? I even turned off the firewall and still got nothing, also tried adding the machine manually as a Media Director, but no go.


At least it plays DVDs, however it seems to randomly jump to and from the remote control interface, sometimes I'm waiting around for a good 15 seconds to let the interface go away and get back to my media.

Also, I picked up the DVDs probably 3-4 months ago, do I need the "new" one? I couldn't find a release date for them, so I can't tell if they're newer than what I got.


Also, everything seems to take slower than it should, especially considering how many times it re-creates overlays and such, seems kind of unreasonable for a device when I want to get to my media. Does it really need to re-create overlays every bootup? Or once I'm done screwing with it I wont re-create overlays again?