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Installation issues / Re: ASUS M3A78-EM - Great for a Core, Great for an MD - Realtek 8168 Gigabit Solved!

« on: February 24, 2009, 06:44:14 am »

dear masters of the universe,
still striking out on getting my m3n78-em boards nic chipset to work with lmce.  i tried the latest suggestion which was to reinstall the i386 dvd and, post install, go straight to recovery mode and run the entries to add the r8168 module to the system and reboot.  tried that route and failed again.

here's my setup

mobo: asus m3n78-em
cpu: amd phenom 8750 64 bit quad 4
memory : 8 gigs ddr2 1066
2 sata3 hard drives, one for op system, one for media
6000 series nvidia pci card
hauppage pvr150
2 lite-on litescribe dvd r/rw

things to note on install:
- probing the bios portion of install takes a long time, result is some kind of failure but text on screen says this issue is harmless.
- i do not get to final screen post install that tells you to remove disk and reboot.  install freezes at point where there is a flashing cursor at top left of screen, but nothing else, cannot eject disk.  had to restart pc to get disk out.  when letting it load normally however, it does reach the avwizard and i can set up the pc.
- in watching the system boot in recovery mode, when it says "mounting local filesystems" displays a red [fail] result.  this however does not stop the system from booting.
- also get message that apparmor failed to boot properly.

from there i can run through the avwizard and through the initial setup. but without an internet connection its not work it.  without the onboard nic working i can't use this setup as a core/hybrid, which was the intention all along. 

If anyone has any ideas as to what to try next, please let me know.  I've been stuck here for 3 weeks now and am about to dump the board and try another one.  i don't want to b/c the capability of this board is big, i think.

thanks in advance for any tips,

Shane

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Installation issues / Re: ASUS M3A78-EM - Great for a Core, Great for an MD - Realtek 8168 Gigabit Solved!

« on: February 24, 2009, 01:10:58 am »

I'll give it a rip tonight, and post my experience . I definitely don't want to go down the road of trying to upgrade the kernel to fix this.  Thats over my pay-grade these days.

shane

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Installation issues / Re: ASUS M3N78-EM

« on: February 23, 2009, 08:01:43 pm »

nite,
could you possible go through how you went about updating your kernel to get the nic to work? I've never done it so a little guidance would go a real long way.

thanks,

shane

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Installation issues / Re: ASUS M3A78-EM - Great for a Core, Great for an MD - Realtek 8168 Gigabit Solved!

« on: February 23, 2009, 07:54:43 pm »

Dear Seth,
I finally did see the module show up when i ran the update.  I'm a newbie, and i was doing this work from a prompt in recovery mode.  when i ran the upate, and then scrolled up to see if it loaded, I couldn't scroll all the way back to the beginning because that much history wasn't showing.  when i did the update from a terminal window off the desktop, i could scroll all the way to the beginning and there it was.

However, still no joy on the NIC working from boot, after seeing the module there.  running ifconfig at recovery or looking in the device manager in the desktop, no eth0 present.

Is there a boot log i could look at, or maybe post here that someone could look at, that will help me diagnose what's wrong?  I checked in the bios already and everything seems enabled.

thanks,

shane

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Installation issues / Re: ASUS M3A78-EM - Great for a Core, Great for an MD - Realtek 8168 Gigabit Solved!

« on: February 22, 2009, 07:25:46 am »

hi,

i've been following this post with much interest because i recently built my first dedicated lmce system using the asus m3n78-em board and want desperately to make it work. 

i've gotten through the alsa driver problem.  i'm now onto the onboard nic not working.  Seth, I've followed your directions (i thought) to the letter on how to update the r8168 driver and get it set up to load on boot.  but somehow i'm still screwing up.

everything seems to be in place where it should be, but when i run the update-initramfs -uv command, i don't see any reference to the r8168 module when i scroll up.  in the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file, using the vi command, i've added the r8168 line under the example lines many different ways.  i've added it as:

# r8168
r8168
r8168.ko

then done the update command, but nothing seems to change.

can you give me any ideas as to where i might be screwing up? might there be some reason why the /etc/initrmafs-tools/modules file is being missed as part of the boot sequence.

if you need more info of my system to help diagnose, please let me know.

thanks,

slow

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Users / Re: panasonic ip camera

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:52:20 pm »

I did verify that setting up camera directly under the Core as a child device, using the panasonic IP camera template, does allow you to use the pan/tilt functionality.  my camera doesn't zoom, so i can't verify that, but otherwise it does work.

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Users / MythTV Channel Lineup Issue

« on: January 08, 2009, 12:43:08 am »

I'm having trouble with MythTV not remembering which channel lineup to assign to my tuners.  i have the PVR150 and an HDhomerun setup on my system.  I created two channel lineups, one for the 150, and the other for the hdhr so i can tune all the available channels.

whats strange is that when i reload my router, and then try to watch TV, for some reason the PVR150 channel lineup gets assisgned to the HDhr tuners, rendering them useless. i go into the backend, fix the problem, and everything's ok until the next time i reload the router.

can someone maybe give me some ideas as to where to start looking.  Maybe someone knows where are the configs for the tuners stored on the system?   

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Users / Re: panasonic ip camera

« on: January 07, 2009, 09:04:45 am »

Am still having a problem, even though I know I have it mapped to the right IP address.  the error log is giving me the following message

01   01/06/09 23:55:57.070      GSD Port is not specified. Instantiating non-IO Wrapper. <0xb602ab90>

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Users / Re: Straight answers about digital cable

« on: January 07, 2009, 06:24:37 am »

I live in San Francisco, and get pretty much the same channel selection using my HDHomerun that Tim gets. The major stations, and local community channels.  I cannot tune the 30+ cable channels, even though I'm signed up with comcast's digital package.

shane

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Users / Re: Minimum requirements for HDhomerun

« on: January 07, 2009, 06:16:13 am »

I'm getting about 70% - 75% signal strength with my HDHomerun and the cable setup in my home.  could that be the reason I'm getting the video stutter?

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Users / panasonic ip camera

« on: January 07, 2009, 05:45:02 am »

I've got the panasonic IP camera bl-c111. really cool camera by the way.  I got it to work in LMCE under the motion wrapper, using the generic ip camera template. 

unfortunate part is that the pan/scan functionality of the camera is not working.  the orbiters seem to be designed to initiate pan/scan commands to the camera, but they don't work. 

I've tried unsuccessfully to the set the camera up using the panasonic IP camera template.  the hope was that this template had the goods to make the camera work the way i want, but i've not yet been able to successfully grab stills using this template.

Has someone had success setting this camera up on their system and getting the pan/scan functionality to work? if so, what did you do that was unique?

thanks,

shane

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Users / MythTV not remembering input connection with HDhomerun and pvr150 installed

« on: January 06, 2009, 05:27:57 am »

So i followed the wiki instructions and mythtv wiki pages for setting up the hdhomerun along with my analog pvr card the hauppage 150. i've got two input source created, and in input connections, i set the two tuners on the hdhomerun to the source i created for it, and the pvr150 to the other channel source.

i exit the backend, go into the frontend and things are working as they should (i'm still having stuttering problems with the hdhomerun, and poor reception on the pvr150, but that's for another post).  i exit the frontend.  later i have to turn off the core, but when i turn it back on. the channel source being used for the hdhomerun has changed to the one i made for the analog tuner, making it inop.  so i check the backend and sure enough all the tuners are set to the same channel source.  i fix it, and were working again.  turn the computer off then on again, and same problem.

can someone point me in the direction as to how to stop this from happening?

shane

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Users / Re: Minimum requirements for HDhomerun

« on: January 06, 2009, 05:20:56 am »

OK,

I looked at my xorg.conf file and saw that the entry suggested by Erwin in a previous post was already there.  so I hit a dead end there. one peculiar thing I saw in reading through my config file was that when it mentions a graphics chipset, it names an intel chipset.  i would have thought that with an geforce card in the machine, it would not reference intel.  i've pasted in below my xorg file for someone to hopefully look at and see maybe what I'm seeing.  or to offer a solution.

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier   "Generic Keyboard"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option      "CoreKeyboard"
   Option      "XkbRules"   "xorg"
   Option      "XkbModel"   "pc105"
   Option      "XkbLayout"   "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier   "Configured Mouse"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option      "CorePointer"
   Option      "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
   Option      "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
   Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5"
   Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver      "wacom"
   Identifier   "stylus"
   Option      "Device"   "/dev/input/wacom"
   Option      "Type"      "stylus"
   Option      "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"      # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver      "wacom"
   Identifier   "eraser"
   Option      "Device"   "/dev/input/wacom"
   Option      "Type"      "eraser"
   Option      "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"      # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver      "wacom"
   Identifier   "cursor"
   Option      "Device"   "/dev/input/wacom"
   Option      "Type"      "cursor"
   Option      "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"      # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier   "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
   Driver      "nvidia"
   BusID      "PCI:1:8:0"
   Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
   Option "renderAccel" "true"
   Option "NoDDCValue"
   Option "UseEDID" "false"
   Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"
   Option "NoLogo" "true"
   Option "NoBandWidthTest" "true"
   Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, AllowInterlacedModes, AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
   Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
   Option "UseEvents" "true"
   Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "DELL E152FP"
   Option      "DPMS"
   Modeline    "800x600"       38.21   800  832  976 1008    600  612  618  631
   HorizSync   20-500
   VertRefresh   59-61
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier   "Default Screen"
   Device      "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
   Monitor      "DELL E152FP"
   DefaultDepth   24
   SubSection "Display"
      Modes      "800x600"
      Virtual      800 600
   EndSubSection
   Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
   Option "renderAccel" "true"
   Option "NoDDCValue"
   Option "UseEDID" "false"
   Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"
   Option "NoLogo" "true"
   Option "NoBandWidthTest" "true"
   Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, AllowInterlacedModes, AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
   Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
   Option "UseEvents" "true"
   Option   "TVStandard"   "800x600"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier   "Default Layout"
   Screen      "Default Screen"
   InputDevice   "Generic Keyboard"
   InputDevice   "Configured Mouse"

# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
#   InputDevice     "stylus"   "SendCoreEvents"
#   InputDevice     "cursor"   "SendCoreEvents"
#   InputDevice     "eraser"   "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "false"
   Option "RENDER" "true"
EndSection

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Users / Re: Minimum requirements for HDhomerun

« on: January 06, 2009, 05:10:49 am »

in response to the question about which nvidia card I'm using, I don't have the packaging anymore, but its the nivida GForce 6200 series card i think, pci, has DVI, S-video, and VGA out plugs.  256 MB onboard memory.

does that make sense?

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Users / Re: Minimum requirements for HDhomerun

« on: January 04, 2009, 08:50:06 pm »

thank you, I'll give it a go and let you know what happens.