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Users / Re: apt-get upgrade problem

« on: September 30, 2015, 04:31:41 am »

ick, that'll prevent further upgrades.

10.04 isn't receiving future upgrades, and the current recommended version will not upgrade... so if you wanna roll with the now unsupported 1004, that is the only way I have found to make it go.

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Users / Re: Is it possible to host LinuxMCE on AWS?

« on: August 27, 2015, 09:57:20 pm »

MDs will take foreeever to boot. Tasks will take a loooong time to start. Lag will cause some instability in various areas... so the question is not really "can it?", but "is it worth it?"

For fun, yes. For production, no.

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Users / Re: apt-get upgrade problem

« on: August 27, 2015, 09:54:18 pm »

or...

echo "Package: bash
Pin: version 4.1-2ubuntu3
Pin-Priority:1001" > /etc/apt/preferences.d/bash

and update/upgrade.

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Installation issues / Re: Embedded ATI Radeon 7000-M

« on: July 04, 2014, 09:36:07 pm »

lspci -nn | grep VGA as well.

I have a lot of work to do on Radeon.
For now, install the latest driver from AMD and hash out CheckVideoDriver in /etc/init.d/a0start_avwizard

I don't think this will work. I think something in avwiz will try and run the check that is installing the wrong driver too... but am not positive. Will need to look. Worth a shot though.

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Users / Re: clean /usr/pluto/deb-cache

« on: March 17, 2014, 03:18:04 pm »

Delete everything and run:

dpkg-scanpackages /usr/pluto/deb-cache /dev/null | sed 's,\/usr\/pluto\/deb-cache\/,,g' | tee Packages | gzip -9c > /usr/pluto/deb-cache/Packages.gz

apt-get update

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Installation issues / Re: Small LMCE screen size.

« on: March 17, 2014, 03:11:01 pm »

If there is no xorg.conf, the first screen of avwiz is sized small on some displays. Once you hit OK and select an appropriate size, it should be fixed.

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Installation issues / Re: xrandr & gtf question.

« on: March 17, 2014, 03:08:32 pm »

If there is any kind of adapter in the way, this generally kills EDID discovery. That is almost always the answer.

As per building a modeline, try:
cvt 1280 720 60

My sample output on this laptop is:
cvt 1280 720 60
# 1280x720 59.86 Hz (CVT 0.92M9) hsync: 44.77 kHz; pclk: 74.50 MHz
Modeline "1280x720_60.00"   74.50  1280 1344 1472 1664  720 723 728 748 -hsync +vsync

So the modeline in xorg.conf would be:
        Modeline        "1280x720_60.00" 74.50 1280 1344 1472 1664 720 723 728 748 -hsync +vsync

It is important to remember to remove all double spaces after the quotes. In that example there is one after the quote, before the 1280 and one before the 720.

On my core I have:
root@dcerouter:~# cvt 1280 720 60
# 1280x720 59.86 Hz (CVT 0.92M9) hsync: 44.77 kHz; pclk: 74.50 MHz
Modeline "1280x720_60.00"   74.50  1280 1344 1472 1664  720 723 728 748 -hsync +vsync

The one generated by LMCE is:
        Modeline        "1280x720" 74.250 1280 1390 1430 1650 720 725 730 750 +hsync +vsync
You can see they are very close.

You can then set xrandr to use this mode if it is not working right ootb. BTW... if this is a CRT, a bad modeline can physically damage the monitor.

Cheers

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Installation issues / Re: Asrock ION 330 wireless and remote control don't work

« on: March 04, 2014, 04:51:29 pm »

You can pay me, or I can work through it over IRC for free and teach you how to make them yourself... your call.

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Installation issues / Re: 12.04 - video config (AVWizard)

« on: March 04, 2014, 04:44:40 pm »

That message is mine, and as it says... should not happen. Please give me the output of lspci -nn | grep VGA

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Installation issues / Re: Asrock ION 330 wireless and remote control don't work

« on: January 29, 2014, 02:55:18 pm »

As to the wireless... I am not sure what you have done thus far. Does it show up in lspci? You are using an ION as a core? That is not a great idea. I mean... it will probably work, but... as you add responsibilities and moons... that is going to be hairy.

One of my first posts here was how to use a WIFI card as the external interface.
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,9530.msg65315.html#msg65315

Ahh so green...

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Users / Re: Adding a HD for all media storage

« on: January 17, 2014, 02:48:33 pm »

Yes. Keep media off of the 80 gb drive.

As that 1.5 fills up, it is easy to just drop little NAS bricks onto the network. A wise man also backs everything up. You would be smart to duplicate your efforts going forward, and clonezilla your stable system onto the 1.5 somewhere as an image.

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Installation issues / Re: PXE boot MD

« on: January 17, 2014, 03:46:38 am »

Thank you very much! This old laptop worked well as a MythTV frontend for a few years so I have no complaints. I guess it's time to move onto the next machine.With luck the NUC will work well and I will be able to ditch the old laptop with the broken screen.

Well... tell me what it does when you open myth. If you had good playback of HD myth before...

I mean unless this was a very old setup back when fglrx still worked with your HW on an old kernel...

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Installation issues / Re: PXE boot MD

« on: January 17, 2014, 03:39:35 am »

Yeah... that's what I thought. It should work for everything but mythtv and true HD video files.

You can adjust the mythtv playback settings in the regular setup menu in myth (not the main setup under computing) to the "slim" playback profile, and you can playback recorded myth stuff in all likelihood... but live streaming is going to be HD and probably break or be unwatchable.

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Installation issues / Re: 10.04 "add software" never populates.

« on: January 17, 2014, 03:32:33 am »

Ummm... no... that does not make sense.

Something else reverted your sources.list, and THAT is why the gpgUpdate failed. Phenigma can shed more light on what does this. Probably something to do with confirm dependencies.

Speaking of which I believe this has been changed in the DB. You might try updating CVS in web admin.

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Installation issues / Re: PXE boot MD

« on: January 17, 2014, 03:31:02 am »

lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A3

I believe that is going to be on the radeon driver, and myth might not like it much... this is due to ATI dropping support like mad. Not much to be done if the open source driver cannot keep up.