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I have decided to try and write a DCE wrapper for VLC, because in my belief it will fix a number of issues. I am also going to be looking real hard for a solution to asterisk prob.

I tried for many days to get 8.1 rolling during the avenard fiasco, and am still unsuccessful. I will go at that some more later. For now I will be trying to develop for 7.10 and 8.10 concurrently.

So I have set up a dev box and would like to know some info. I have a lot of reading ahead of me, but if someone could help me with a couple of basic "where do i find"s that would be great.

1. I am green to linux. Where do I get avail source code? For instance if I wanted to look at the xine wrapper... where would I find that? Is it even available?

2. I am comfortable in java. I need to learn c++ anyway, have for about 20 years and just never got around to it. Any suggested reading? It is still object oriented... I should be able to get the swing pretty quick.

3. I just found the svn part of the site. How is that managed, I see assignments... but do not know if they are self or admin assigned. Because I am just above useless, should I try and tackle things related to features and not function... as the more experienced guys are more likely to find a quicker solution?

Any rules, tips, suggestions are welcome. I have never developed outside of contract before, so I am new to the community.

The idea was with a virtual adapter serving functions where duality is required. I would think a gb nic could do most of the pushing of a small system.

I am curious if those who know more how the DB calls are made and why think this might be a viable solution and something that would be worthwhile. I would be happy to go at it nothing immediately jumps to mind prohibiting the possibility.

So because of my location I cannot get "real" internet. My only options are a verizon mifi2200, and a tethered droid. All of the warnings to use eth0 are correct. You need to do that. So after a lot of renaming/disabling etc I realized faking it doesn't work so much. My only option to get the WWAN to eth0 was using windows ICS (internet connection sharing). This seemed to bring up a host of new problems, and this is how I dealt with them.

Asus m3n78-ev
phenom II... cant rememb clock
4GB ram ddr2 800
128 gb SSD for OS
LSI Megaraid 150-6 (cheap, slow, but effective. Shame I dont have a board running around with pcix) caps logical drive size to 2tb, I don't care what the firmware update says.
4x2tb in raid5 + HSS
HDHomerun

routers/switches
Done this install with many different types, at least 6, all w same problem.

OSs using ICS (not at same time)
xp pc
vista pc
7 pc

Here is the problem.
update typically stalls out downloading
dist-upgrade always stalls out downloading
lmce always stalls out downloading

These failures occur on files of any size... in different places. Now what it looks like to me is that IPv6 is querying the piss out of the router and after enough of that the connection is lost until broken and re-tried. The bugs related to this are supposed to have been fixed in karmic... and it seems to only be an issue for me on the ICS side of downloading.


Except the ttf-mscorefonts. That fails on any connection.


Now when these scripts are done, some of them do cleanup which removes things necessary for the install. The broken packages show as existing, and do not install further.


So, my advice, if you are forced to use this sort of setup, is firstly, during update/dist-upgrade,  to drop the 2nd nic from the router/switch/hub. Then save the output of any term sessions. Go back and find the broken dl links, apt-get remove them... --purge does not work out so clean, so avoid if possible. I don't know why. I am sure it is due to my ignorance in linux. Then apt-get install them again.

Once the AVWizard comes alive, this stalling out nonsense seems to fix itself, so plug your 2nd nic back in.


Mythtv components are AWESOME at committing suicide on dl. You have to watch them, in particular, very carefully.



ICS SEEMS to be happier on XP... but I could be making that up.

Lastly, wtg guys on beta 2. I want to be like you when I grow up.

I am new to linux/LMCE as are so many of us. I have, until recently, used linux like the speech function on Stewie's mac. "It installed... Yay". I compiled some java a long time ago with it... and then LMCE gave me motivation.


A great number of automation products provide 4-20mA feedback, with range sets that trigger different events. It is my goal to build such a thing for LMCE. This way I can implement modular projects which are not tied to specific control modules, and use cat5 for power, feedback and control.

I will begin here.
http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detail.htm?sku=6263101&oext=1038A&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=6263101

And note my progress.

So I spent some money on some controllers. The gyration is still the sexiest way I have to navigate... but there is a contender.



It is about the length of a US dollar. It is the Logitech DiNovo Mini.

The round pad is a mouse or directional key depending on either a switch or using the function button. In 710, the mouse did not function natively, but after some modprobing I was able to get that working successfully. It operates like a touch pad, and is not nearly as fluid as the gyration... but functional. Moreover, when you adjusted the mouse acceleration in KDE it was reflected in LinuxMCE... this is no longer the case. Curious if anyone had any pointers (no pun intended) on mouse acceleration in LinuxMCE. Currently it takes about three full swipes to move from one end to the other at 1024x768.

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Logitech_Dinovo_Mini

So I had 710 running flawlessly on an asus M3n78-EM (nvidia GeForce 8300 using driver 185.18.36) with alpha 2 and all that jazz.

8.10... not so much. Opening the restricted drivers from taskbar icon typically locks the system... nvidia 170, 185 and 190 exist.

1.9 WILL bring KDE up... however linuxmce will not load X for wizard.

Briefly, this is what I have done.

FROM DVD:

Installed kubuntu with last option "Linuxmce install"
Checked for updates
Installed updates (NOT upgrade) 14 exist.
ran nvidia-xconfig

This boots to KDE in higher res using native detected 190.35 drivers. AVWizard will not load.

Clean install, same as before, but no nvidia-xconfig
AVWizard boots and loads MCE in plain UI.

Run nvidia-xconfig, and no dice. Revert.

Manually loaded 185 restricted driver. Will not start x.
Manually loaded 190. Will not start x.

Used envyng to auto-configure nvidia/x

Will load kde login manager but on login breaks and reboots login mgr.

I would love to make this hardware work in 8.10, but if I need to move on, I will take suggestions as well. Thanks in advance.