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Marketplace / USB-UIRT and Fiire Remote for Sale...

« on: October 01, 2008, 05:28:55 am »

Hello everyone,
I've got a couple of items no longer in use and thought I'd offer them up to the forum prior to posting them on ebay.

I've got 1 USB-UIRT ($40 plus shipping) and 1 Fiire Chief Remote with manual and 2 dongles ($140 plus shipping). I'd prefer to only ship within the US so as to avoid all of the export paper work. My prices are not extremely firm but both of these items were very lightly used. The remote looks brand new!

The USB-UIRT was purchased from the following site:
http://www.usbuirt.com/


This is the link to the Fiire Chief Remote. Notice it comes with only 1 dongle for $149. Mine will come with 2 dongles. Again, condition is like new.
http://fiire.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=1

If you're interested I'll accept Paypal and ship UPS so you'll have tracking info 1 day after recept of paypal funds.

Hope this is the right place to post this. Thanks everyone for your time and support on a great project...

Andy

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Installation issues / Installing 0710 beta2 - flickr, cd id and other network services not working

« on: January 09, 2008, 04:56:41 am »

I'll start off my post by saying this seems network related..

After some issues and some new equipment that I wanted to add to the system (USB-UIRT and Zwave controller). I decided I'd like to do a fresh install. However, after installing I noticed that some of the screens in the setup wizard (particularly the one where you add the win32codec and dvdcss) seemed to have a black area with nothing in them to select. During my last install of 0710, I was able to click and highlight the packages to install and everything worked fine.
After completing the setup without adding the dvdcss and w32codecs, I noticed that my flickr screen saver was not running. I have a black background and the menus along the bottom to navigate with. I try to play a CD or DVD and the media is not identified.

At this point, I'm thinking I have a network issue going on so I go to the KDE Desktop and open a terminal window. Ping my external interface, good. Ping my DSL Router, good. Ping www.google.com, good. Open a browser, go to www.google.com, good.

Is there something I'm missing? My hardware is listed in my sig and I am currently setup with UI2 with blending. I've tried switching to regular UI2 and that made no difference.

Funny thing is, I had a relatively fresh install of 0704 going this afternoon without problem. (I just had to muck with it and go back to 0710 beta 2 so that my DVD audio and video would be in sync.)

By the way, I've reinstalled this system quite a few times now between 0704 and 0710 beta2. I'm just trying to get a totally stable setup going then I promise to leave it alone.


I searched around for an answer but didn't find any that look like they related to this issue so my apologies if it's already been answered somewhere else. Thanks for your help in advance.
Andy

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Users / DVD choppy. DMA keeps getting disabled.

« on: January 04, 2008, 06:32:15 am »

Not sure if this is the right area to post this so please let me know if there's another place that's more appropriate.
I have a Hybrid system (specs are in my sig). I'm working through some of my issues since downloading LinuxMCE and going through the install process.
I am currently using 0710 beta2 since I had quite a few problems getting the audio and video to sync up during DVD playback on 0704.

My current issue is getting playback on DVD's to smooth out. They are very choppy. After doing some research, I see that DMA is getting disabled after I put a DVD in the system. Below are the related messages from /var/log/messages.

Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.728000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.728000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.728000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.732000] hdc: DMA disabled
Jan  3 21:45:08 dcerouter kernel: [  233.780000] hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Jan  3 21:45:09 dcerouter kernel: [  235.000000] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount


This output is generated after putting a DVD in my DVD drive.

--I've checked the config of my drive with the hdparm command and below is some information that might be helpful.
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdc
[sudo] password for linuxmce:
/dev/hdc:
 Model=ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P, FwRev=9P54, SerialNo=
 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
 RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 sdma? mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
 AdvancedPM=no
 Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
 * signifies the current active mode

--Here are the specific paramaters after loading a DVD
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
 IO_support    =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq     =  1 (on)
 using_dma     =  0 (off)
 keepsettings  =  0 (off)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

--Notice that the using_dma parameter is set to off. I turn it on and tell it to keep the settings after reboot with the following command.
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 -k1 /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 setting keep_settings to 1 (on)
 using_dma     =  1 (on)
 keepsettings  =  1 (on)

--After running this command and rebooting, the settings are kept until I put in a DVD and then the drive is switched to using_dma = off again.
I have verified IDE cable is connected properly and have even switched out with another one to rule that out.

Does anyone have any ideas?
Are you experiencing this as well?

Thank you in advance for you help and suggestions.
Andy

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Compatible Products & Services / Gyration's GyroRemote vs. Fiire's Fiire Chief?

« on: December 20, 2007, 09:55:53 pm »

Hello everyone!
I've been looking into building my own Core for a couple of weeks now and I have a question on the remotes.

Has anyone used the GyroRemote from Gyration? Does it have the same functionality of the Fiire Chief?
Here's a link to each of them:
http://www.gyration.com/p-21-universal-remote-control-for-pc-media-center-and-audiovideo-functions.aspx
and
http://fiire.com/fiire-chief.php

They look very similar but I'm not sure if the same functionality is there. The GyroRemote is about $50 cheaper than the Fiire offering but I'm not sure if I'm going to get the same experience.

I sent emails and made calls to Gyration and Polywell and neither of them seem to know anything about the other.

Gyration also has an offering with the keyboard included. This seems like a great package but if they won't work well, it's not worth pursuing.

Thank you in advance for your responses!!
Andy