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Users / Re: Simple Network Question

« on: May 06, 2008, 11:38:00 pm »

Well sometimes you need to do these other network setups.  My house topology would make it difficult to get cables where they need to be, or I would need to start purchasing extra MD's if I had to move my core.

I agree that the network setup needs to be known, but doesn't it anyway?  Linuxmce is coming along great and I'm looking for places I can help, but you need to understand what you are doing.

What kind of network pieces are you referring to that might get lost?  I have all of my functionality, including wireless.  The worst would be getting outside access to my computer because of the additional firewall, but my cablemodem has such a slow upload it doesn't really matter, as it isn't real useful anyway.

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Users / Re: Simple Network Question

« on: May 06, 2008, 09:35:30 pm »

My core only has one network card this is my setup.
I used an old linksys (non wifi) cheap router on my cable modem.  I had setup the linksys with a dhcp range of 192.168.1.x (so not to conflict with linuxmce's 192.168.80.x)  I ran dhcp on the router long enough to get the core up and running completely.

As soon as the install was done I set a static IP on the core, and disabled dhcp on the linksys router.  After I rebooted the core everything worked as planned.

They are all run through the same switches without an issue for me.

This also gives me the ability to turn dhcp back on from the router if my core goes down (or I'm tinkering with it) and get my wife's laptop (she's doesn't always appreciate the elegance of linuxmce and the need to upgrade) connected to the outside. 

Other options are additional firewall, option to setup a network DMZ...

Just what worked for me in a similar situation.

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Installation issues / MP3 Ripping Failure - 710RC1 - Mixed 64 / 32

« on: May 05, 2008, 03:37:53 am »

I am having intermittent trouble on ripping CD's to MP3 under 710RC1 and I'm looking to see if anyone else is having anything similar or has suggestions.

The core is AMD64 all MD's are 32. 

All CD's play fine, but when I try to rip certain CD's are failing it is about 30% right now that are failing.  The ones that are failing will rip under ogg, but fail under mp3 (have even tried different bit rates.)  I have had one cd rip and one fail from a two disc set.  When looking at names, their are no special characters or symbols.

The folders are being created on the server, however the no files are ripped.  One of the files seems to start, and gets locked (but is empty).  The folder then can not be deleted until the core is rebooted.  Doesn't matter if done from core or MD.

I have verified that LAME is loaded on all machines.  I have gone into the add software and removed / added the codecs (wasn't sure if needed or not).

Thanks

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Developers / Re: Linspire CNR

« on: April 18, 2008, 05:01:04 pm »

I'm assuming that if it could be pointed at an appropriate repositories then their wouldn't be a problem?

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Developers / Linspire CNR

« on: April 17, 2008, 04:01:30 pm »

A question for all of you smarter than I

Kubuntu is now officially supported through Linspires Click N' Run (CNR).

I have an existing CNR account, with a previously purchased Legal DVD software.

My question is could the CNR client be used with LinuxMCE, to add functionality to the Core/MDs when they are used as regular computers (which happens for us about 20% of the time - kids games and such)  I also like the idea of being able to use a legal DVD Codec. 

To me this would allow for LinuxMCE to become a more functional system in our house, Basically I can eliminate having both TV and computer in the same room.  I know I can dual boot, etc... but this is could be the simpler solution.

Thanks in advance

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Installation issues / Re: Installation Error: Buffer I/O on device fd0

« on: April 09, 2008, 11:24:14 pm »

Try this... from http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=4500.0  It sounds similar.
........
I had the same problem with my amd 64 x2 4200+ am2 socket.

I found a solution to get the install DVD to boot and run through install, I needed to do the same thing to install from Kubuntu 710 64bit version.

when it first starts and you get the install option, press F6.  Scroll to the right of the boot options, replace the ".../initrd.gz quiet splash --" with ".../initrd.gz quiet noapic --" at the end of the string.

It still have a couple errors, but after a minute or so went through.
.......

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Installation issues / Re: blank screen when starting to install 64bit -- workaround

« on: April 09, 2008, 03:51:26 pm »

I had the same problem with my amd 64 x2 4200+ am2 socket.

I found a solution to get the install DVD to boot and run through install, I needed to do the same thing to install from Kubuntu 710 64bit version.

when it first starts and you get the install option, press F6.  Scroll to the right of the boot options, replace the ".../initrd.gz quiet splash --" with ".../initrd.gz quiet noapic --" at the end of the string.

It still have a couple errors, but after a minute or so went through.

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Installation issues / Re: Slow MD no myth-setup after upgrade of 710b3

« on: January 28, 2008, 08:09:30 pm »

That was what I thought it might be, and I did do the fresh install.  That seemed to fix all the problems, except this localized problem with the toshiba 2800-202 laptop.

Thanks

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Installation issues / Re: Slow MD no myth-setup after upgrade of 710b3

« on: January 28, 2008, 03:57:07 am »

Still having trouble with my satellite 2800-202 p3-700 384mb.  I have a parts box that is the same, after changing shells the other one acted the same, so I don't think it is a physical problem.

After doing a bunch of research and various attempts over the weekend I found some possibilties from different threads.

1) e100 issues in 2.6: I think this issue has been resolved, I also have p3 ghz machine with 512mb. it is also using the e100 driver and runs great so I don't think it is the e100

2) switch ports: have tried multiple switches and different ports no effect.

3) agp aperature size: for some reason the agp aperature is set at 256mb.  I have seen some references to this slowing down systems, the laptop has an integrated 8mb savage video card.  I can not change it in the bios, any ideas about it?

4) laptop issue, is there possibly something else going on with pcmcia card controllers or other toshiba related issues?  The bios is really limiting I can't disable to much (like ide ports...) I'm not sure how to (assuming I can) disable things at boot as kernel params, or even which ones to try.

5) I looked through dmesg - no errors listed in it.

Again system worked great under 704, I just can't find if there was a particular change to 710b3 that did it.

Thanks

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Installation issues / Re: Slow MD no myth-setup after upgrade of 710b3

« on: January 25, 2008, 07:09:54 pm »

I tried that, left it at 640x480 and was able to "blindly click" to hit the continue button while the screen was trying to be displayed.

I think the problem is something else, the whole system gets real sluggish after it hits some of the initial scripts.  I have two other desktops that are about the same vintage which fly through in comparison.  The laptop is a toshiba 2800 P3-700mhz, with a Savage S3 Savage/IX M7 video card.  Xorg.conf looks ok, but is there a way to reconfigure xorg from the console without having to run through the avwizard?


It will fly through the initial vmlinuz image, but I see the first hesitation on e100 watchdog and then it becomes real noticeable after the "read files needed to boot" after init-bottom (sorry if the names are a little off).  After that each step is 2-6 seconds.  Is it possible it is a network driver issue that it suddenly starts to "lag"?

Thanks

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Installation issues / Re: Slow MD no myth-setup after upgrade of 710b3

« on: January 24, 2008, 11:26:10 pm »

I have done a clean install and that fixed all the mythtv issues something in the upgrade didn't go well, sorry I don't have anymore info that I can share.

I am still having trouble with a laptop.  It has a savage based video card with hardware mpg2 - worked great under 704.  I see it recognize that it is a savage card but I have a feeling that it is using VESA.  I thought 704 had a savage video card option (might be dreaming on that) but the standard  video card option is basically too slow to use.  Even switching the running orbiter to the tty1 screen can take 20 + seconds.  AVWizard video test was basically impossible becuase of the delays, I couldn't click ok on resolution verification before the 15 seconds elapsed.  Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Installation issues / Slow MD no myth-setup after upgrade of 710b3

« on: January 23, 2008, 10:01:58 pm »

Looking for any suggestions before I do a complete fresh install.

I upgraded from 704 to 710b3.  The upgrade itself went smooth but I have some issues now.

Mythtv: I can not access mythtv-setup.  When trying to access I get the blue screen like a new myth installation that asks for location username password...  Ok through there and I skips the setup and jumps to the run mythfilldatabase question.

I have 3 different tuners that I had working in 704, a hauppauge 350, a cheap kworld 7133 based card and a air2pc digital card.  None of which are showing up in the av wizard so I need to use mythtv-setup.

Slow Orbiter: I am using an older 700mhz 384mb laptop for an orbiter (worked fine under 704) but now it is extremely slow, it seems normal until it "loading files needed to boot" then it just gets pokey.  Any suggestions (getting a new system doesn't count)

During the upgrade it may have failed trying to load files after the intial copy from DVD as 710 tried to use the second nic for internet that 704 ignored, so is it possible that it didn't upgrade some packages? 

Thanks in advance.

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Developers / Re: UI3 Discussion

« on: January 15, 2008, 05:17:22 pm »

my only concern is to make sure that the traditional orbiter devices are supported. This includes:

* Cisco 7970
* Nokia 770/N800
* Windows Webpads
* Symbian/Windows Smartphones

because, I do _NOT_ want to lose retargetability to other devices, in the process of moving across platforms. I will scream bloody murder, if that happens.

-Thom

A balance would be good though, to support the existing devices (or a reasonable subset of existing devices) but eventually new features/ desires/ capabilities will simply eclipse the capabilities of what we have now.  I would hate to see future development restricted to support devices that have are out of production.  Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to purchase new equipment, In fact I'm trying to see if it is possible to create a DCE template for my hauppauge MVP running mvpmc software.

I wonder if the discussion could start with looking at the layout description language (probably xml but not absolute) and then choosing the appropriate tools to use for the different devices.  I realize that this could end up fragmenting development, but it doesn't need to.

I like the idea of open laszlo (or similar), and I would also suggest maybe the use of xforms or similar for layout as there are already reference implementations across many platforms and languages.  I think the use of an international standard like this could entice more corporate development / sponsorship as well.  I think the CORE will stay a restricted development environment, but bringing in something like webservices and xml based layouts will allow for some exciting interfaces.  I could easily see adding something like Red5 with laszlo and having game consoles like the PS2/3, Wii, nintendo DS as orbiters, or a number of flashlite 3 enabled devices like the Chumby

-Chris