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Did anyone of you try the windows orbiter? In the latest alpha as well as in the beta-dvd, there are no media buttons...the only thing visible is telecom and security.

For a moment I had a Core running (but failed to install MD). When the core was up and running I tried the orbitter and it looked just fine. Seems like problems are very different for individual users.

For those having MD creation issues following a DVD Beta install, have you read:   http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/LinuxMCE-0810_beta

You need to create the initial MD image by running the script: /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh before any MDs can be created.

J.

I do have Myth installed but I get stuck here;

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pluto-mythtv-player: PreDepends: mythtv-backend but it is not going to be installed
                       PreDepends: mythtv-frontend but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
#### Package pluto-mythtv-player failed (/tmp/tmp.lFSpF13245) - We wait 10sec and try again - to stop retrying press Ctrl-C.


I have the same problem with the Mythtv packages. Left it for 15 min but kept repeating the message. Stil no MD running

I have the same problems. I searched the forum and tried al lot of things to get at least one MD going but no luck so far. I 'm up to my 15th reinstall of the core but I' very doubtfull this will work. Also I noticed there is no /usr/Pluto/Diskless folder and can't find the Diskless folder anywhere else. Is this normal?

I went into /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg and edited the default boot script to remove acpi=off.

The system then booted.

After everything was working I changed the default back to acpi=off.

My system BIOS did not have any settings for turning on or off acpi.

Maybe yours does and you could try that before doing any editing.

Looked in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg folder and it was empty. So nothing to edit. Is this normal?
I tried to add the MD manually filling in as much of the settings as I could and the progress got a few steps further but then it gets into a loop and keeps rebooting. So I deleted the manual MD and now it's stuck again at 'Setup Failed'. I used the same computer setup on the 710 releases and never had any problems.

New 810 beta running on a core. I tried adding an MD, a Zotac ion 330 board, and cannot get past the first 2 seconds of boot. The MD gets stuck at "unable to locate configuration file". The immediately preceding message is "Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default".

Then a message: Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset...............

Also, on the Core, superimposed on to the main LinuxMCE page, is a message "Starting Media Director Devices". However, this message does not change and does not go away. Obviously, I do not see this message on the web orbiter.

Any thoughts?

Lev

Same problems here

OK, after a hard research I found a cheaper solution (I think), and I'd like your opinion about it!
I have a core with 1 ide ata (system) and 4 sata (raid 5) slots that are already  full. So, what I thought was:
1) move my all data to usb device (1 tb usb hard drive);
2) substitute my 4 320gb hdd for 5 1tb hdd;
3) installation of PCI SATA Controller Card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816150014), because I have only 4 on-board sata slot;
4) put back my data.

Any advice??

Thanks!

Looks like a safe solution to me. Personally I use a seperate server (FreeNas) for my data. I found it much easier to work with it then when the disks where on my core.

I don't think it's possible to extend an existing rais setup without losing the data on the disks. Not sure about this but if you can(t backup all this data and something goes wrong when fiddeling with the raid I'm pretty sure you'll loos all your data. So watch out before you try this.

Also found this on the web.
http://technabob.com/blog/2009/06/29/shuttle-x50-flat-screen-pc-barebones/

Looks nice and powerfull and has a 15.6" touch screen. It's only 36mm thick.

Why don't use a pocketpc for this function?

As most people know the 'Cover Art' function in LinuxMCE doesn't really work well. I have more the 2000 music cd's on my server and all the mp3's were correctly tagged, inclusif cover art. I played around with the 'Cover Art' function and messed up the tags of my mp3's. This was my mistake so I decided to do them all over again with other software for tagging mp3's. I started tagging the files again and noticed that the cover art wasn't displayed correctly in the Orbitter. So i took another look at the tags and noticed there were other cover arts added to the files. First I thought it was the program I'm using for editing the mp3's so I tried another program with the same result. I tried other programs and they all gave the same result. I ad a cover to a mp3 and when I look at the same mp3 later (not directly but after an hour or the day after) again there are other covers (not related to the mp3) added to the tag. Now I'm using MediaMonkey and everything looked fine. I edited the MP3's and looked at them later and no other covers were added. At this time I didn't realized I hadn't turned on my Core for several days. After I started the Core again and looked at files I tagged before again there are unrelated covers added to mp3's. So now i'm thinking it's LinuxMCE that's editing the mp3 tags on it's own. I can see no other cause because everything stays fine untill I turn on the server. After it's online for a while there are new covers in my tags. I've been trying to get my music collection back to the state it was before but it seems LinuxMCE keeps messing up my tags. With a music collection of more the 2000 cd's it takes a lot of time and effort to get all the tags in order so you can imagine LinuxMCE starts pissing me off. Does anyone else has this problem? I've searched the forum but nobody is complaining about this. I hope I'm not the only one because really would like to get it fixed.

Grtz
Thingie

I store all my media on a different Windows server. I did try (not much) to use the core for storing my media but found it way to complex. Adding new drives and keeping track of individual files took to much of an effort for me. This could be due to the fact I already had my Windows server before I started using LinuxMCE. I have a lot of media and like to keep an overview of my individual files. Using the directory structure of LinuxMCE creates a folder for music, docs, movies, pictures, ... on every disk. I like to use seperate disks for different types of media, one for music, an other for movies, etc. You don't need to use the folders on the disks but they still remain and this bothers me. If you look in the WebAdmin to your files all Windows shares are displayed under 'Other', this gives me a good view of where my files are stored. The files you save under the LinuxMCE directory structure will be displayed in the folders, music, docs, videos, ... So all music files are vissible in the 'music folder', no matter what disk they're stored on. I also found it much easier to add a new Windows share then adding a new disk or folder on the core.
Maybe my experience isn't all correct because I didn't spend much time experimenting with the LinuxMCE folder structure, if it is pleuse correct me. In the end I guess it's everyone's preference how to store his or her files.

grtz

Thingie

I had some great experience with different kind of PDA's (PocketPc's). If you look on Ebay or other equal sites you'll find lots of pda's for very cheap prices.

Motherboards with 8 PCI slots will be hard to find. Maybe you should think of splitting it to two diferent machines. If it's possible you should get cards with hardware acceleration (build in MPEG de/encoder) or I think you'll need one hell of a cpu if all the cards are being used simultaniously. Though I have no experience with this I believe the chance for succes is better if you split it up into two cores.

Grtz

Thingie

Ok, to make everything clear. In the Webadmin I set the videocard to 'GeForce or TNT2' and set the hardware acceleration to 'xv' if I change it to OpenGL the blocks reapear and the subs are no longer displayed. I use UI2 with alpha blending without any probs. Maybe I should mention that the MD is connected to a standard tv (PALB) so maybe on flatscreens with higher resolutions the 'xv' acceleration is not enough.

Hope this clears it. 

Grtz
Thingie

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=4921.0

Here you can read how I solved the Wifi PXE boot problem.

Grtz

Thingie