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Installation issues / Re: Did the USB-UIRT kill my system?

« on: January 06, 2009, 06:27:37 pm »

Hi Seth,

I am using an i386 system and the steps you listed are the ones I did. I followed the list EXACTLY as shown. After a reboot I'm taken to a text based login. I'm certainly not blaming you or your module but I have no idea what happened. I understand that things go wrong, especially when we're dealing with computers. And I have no idea how to fix it other than to do a fresh install. I'll do that tonight after work and report on any progress.

After getting very very pissed off, then getting very very drunk, then a little sleep, I'm ready to get back to it. 

Linuxmce is a rockin', bad ass system and I will be using it, I just wish for once in life things were easy. I suppose it would be easy if I had all the same components as shown in the video but alas I do not.

Thanks

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Installation issues / Re: Did the USB-UIRT kill my system?

« on: January 06, 2009, 11:44:40 am »

Hi freymann,

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure anybody would because I was so pissy. I did the instant fix after verifying that 'uname -r' returned 2.6.22-14-generic. I did make a backup copy of the ftdi_sio_ko module as suggested and tried putting that back in hope the system would come up. No good.

One thing I really do not understand is how this thing can be called plug and play when all it seems to do is blink the red light until you download a fix and recompile the freakin' kernel. That sort of seems like a major step to get something working.

Anyway I'm not sure what to do now except for reinstall the entire system once again and hope that during the setup portion this thing will work. If you have any additional ideas I'd really appreciate hearing them.

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Installation issues / Did the USB-UIRT kill my system?

« on: January 06, 2009, 02:43:17 am »

Holy Shit this is beginning to be a royal pain! Sorry if I come across irritated but I'm really wore out from all of this. I've installed Linuxmce about 15 times over the last few weeks just trying to get a feel for things and hoping to have a stable system. I've ordered all the cool hardware and it's starting to come in. Tonight I got the USB-UIRT. I read the tutorial at http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/USB-UIRT_x86_Fix and followed all the steps in order. Now after rebooting the machine I just get a text prompt to log in. Of course I can log in as user linuxmce but I have no graphics, just a plain text screen. I can start x with a startx command but Linuxmce will not come up. What the f***?

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Users / Why can't I pause,ship,rewind,etc videos?

« on: December 24, 2008, 03:24:39 pm »

Right now I'm using a keyboard and mouse until I get things working right. I'll add a remote later. When I go to watch live tv I can control the playback with no problem (sort of). I can pause, play, skip forward and back. But if I try to watch a previously recorded show I can not control the playback in any way short of pulling the power cord from the wall. The keyboard will not respond to anything, not even CTRL-Backspace, CTRL-ALT-DELETE, nothing. And I the mouse is also unresponsive. I'm sure I'm just missing some setting but for the life of me I can't seem to locate what it is.

I also have noticed that MythTV seems to be acting very unstable. Once live tv is playing it seems to be okay, but while you're in the menus looking for a recording or whatever it blinks alot, the screen just goes black then mythtv comes back. It's pretty random and blinks on and off every 3 or 4 seconds when I first go to tv from the linuxmce menu. After that it appears to be okay. And for whatever reason, I have to go into the mythtv utility/setup and choose the option to 'use internal volume controls' in order to be able to turn the volume up and down while watching live tv. I have to do this every time before watching live tv because the options never save. If I stop the tv and go to the linuxmce menu then back to tv, I have to go into setup and select the same option again.

I'm thinking about reinstalling the system once again in case I missed something but, christ it takes a long time. I believe all my hardware is fine. I've been running a simple mythtv setup for over a year now. I've got the following hardware

ASUS a8n32-sli deluxe motherboard
AMD 3200 processor
2 Gigs RAM
300 GB/750 GB hard drives
PVR-500 capture card
Nvidia Geforce4 MX 4000 video card

So what's going on with my video playback control?

Thanks!
Tim

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Users / Anybody tried the CommandIR II?

« on: December 20, 2008, 02:43:31 pm »

Just curious if anyone has any experience with this product.

http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/hardware/ir-blaster/commandir/version2-review.html
http://www.commandir.com/content/view/19/31/

Thanks,
Tim

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Users / Re: Best IR option for dual STB's

« on: November 26, 2008, 11:53:24 am »

tschak909 and seth,

Thank, I'll be spending the weekend checking this out and doing a bit more research before I spend my $$.

Tim

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Users / WebDT 325 Thin Client

« on: November 26, 2008, 11:48:03 am »

Does anyone know if the WebDT 325 thin client from DT Research works with LMCE? I've just gotten my hands on one and was thinking of using it as an orbiter.

Thanks

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Users / Best IR option for dual STB's

« on: November 24, 2008, 12:22:41 am »

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of planning my build and have questions about the IR transmitters, etc. I'm currently running a MythTV system but am about to jump head first into LinuxMCE. I have 2 cable boxes from my provider and a PVR-500 with the two tuners. Right now I've only got one set-top box hooked up because  I only have one IR transmitter. I'm using a Firefly RF remote and a MyBlaster IR transmitter to send the signal to my cable box. The MyBlaster works great but unfortunately the company that sold them is out of business and I can't find another one.

Can someone please tell me the easiest way and what I need to buy to allow LinuxMCE/MythTV to control both boxes independently. I've found no way that I can set the cable boxes to use different codes and I'm not really clear on how LinuxMCE knows how to send an IR signal to one box and not the other. Say I'm watching live TV with one cable box and it's time for MythTV to kick off a recording, how does it know to use the box not currently in use?

I'm looking at the USB-UIRT and it seems that I can set up something called zones that will allow different signals to be sent to the different boxes. But all the forums talk about some control software called Girder. Does this work with LinuxMCE or is that something I even need. Also, with the USB-UIRT there seems to be some confusion about which kind of splitter and IR emitter to use in this situation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Tim