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Installation issues / Re: Simple Newbie Problem

« on: December 20, 2009, 06:27:31 am »

You may want to check the FAQ..

The via graphics have been terrible with lmce

*** Hmm, I'm sure you're right.  The FAQ mostly talks about ATI cards. 

please use Nvidia graphics and two nics as a minimum, and you will have a much better experience.

*** If at all possible, I'd like to try it out with this minimal hardware.  Later, can upgrade to better.

It _does_ seem to successfully set the graphics mode.  The problem seems to be sound, not graphics.
Which actually surprises me.

    If I say "No sound at all", it pops over to the end of the Wizard.  Spends an age and a half setting things up,
and then displays a blank screen with the arrow cursor.

   I tried disabling onboard sound through the BIOS, no difference.  I stuck in a USB sound card - the kind they sell on
Ebay for a buck and a half with free shipping .

   WRT two NICs - if I need a second NIC, I'll just get a USB one.  This sucker has 8 USB connectors!

   What log files should I look at to figure out what happened?

                           - Jerry Kaidor

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Installation issues / Re: Simple Newbie Problem

« on: December 19, 2009, 05:46:35 am »

Hmm,

   If I say "No Audio", it moves on to the next level.  I'm guessing that there's no support for the embedded motherboard audio.  Too bad, it does have a SPDIF connector.  I'm going to try a USB sound card.

                                                    - Jerry Kaidor

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Installation issues / Re: Simple Newbie Problem

« on: December 19, 2009, 05:19:46 am »

OK,

   Now it gets stuck in the AVWizard.  It goes up through step 5 ( choose your audio connector ).  After step 5 it goes back to step 1.  It does so regardless of which audio connector I choose.
I suspect it has something to do with my hardware.  Because the software is the same as everybody else's....
 
   It's an ITX PC with a Migrus C787 motherboard, a 1.5GHz VIA CPU, 1 gig of RAM, and an 80-gig SATA notebook drive.  It has the "VIA Graphics Unichrome Pro IGP graphics core" and an "advanced 2D/3D graphics core" (whatever those are).  I suppose it's state of the art for motherboard embedded graphics for 2003.

                                          - Jerry

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Installation issues / Re: Simple Newbie Problem

« on: December 18, 2009, 02:18:25 am »

Thanks Tim,

   That was that.  Seems to be installing....

                                           - Jerry Kaidor

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Installation issues / Simple Newbie Problem

« on: December 17, 2009, 09:57:50 pm »

Hello,

   I'm sure this is ridiculously simple.  I'm trying to install LinuxMCE on a small PC that I plan to dedicate to it.
I am using the three-CD system.  I wiped the disk with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.1 ( Intrepid Ibex ) . 
Popped in CD #1, it plopped a file called mce-installer.desktop in my ~/Desktop directory.
Clicked on that file in the file manager - nothing.
Looked at the file - focused on this line:

Exec:/usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh

...OK, I tried executing it (as root) ....nothing.
then I tried this:

sh /usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh

 Linux MCE Installer Starting ... please wait
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
/usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh: 35: [[: not found
No protocol specified

(mce-installer:6252): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

   What gives?

  Is the archive in mce-installer.sh corrupt?  Chopped off maybe?

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5054221 2009-12-17 04:21 /usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh

....Is that the right file size?

            Thanks,

                                  - Jerry Kaidor