User:Friesian - Revision history

Zaerc: merging

2010-11-03T23:24:42Z

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Zaerc: ASUS P6T Deluxe i7 920 moved to User:Friesian: userpage hardly describes the mainboard at all

2010-11-03T23:16:27Z

ASUS P6T Deluxe i7 920 moved to User:Friesian: userpage hardly describes the mainboard at all

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Zaerc at 14:00, 29 September 2010

2010-09-29T14:00:35Z

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Wierdbeard65 at 20:52, 3 May 2010

2010-05-03T20:52:39Z

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Friesian at 18:00, 1 March 2010

2010-03-01T18:00:12Z

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 **Westinghouse 22" lcd monitor
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 **Sony clie peg th-55 pda?  (I tried, but the old clie just couldn't handle it...)
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 I considered installing on a standard HD rather then one of the Patriot SSD's for the sake of simplicity but I thought, what the hell...  I did notice that 3 of my 4 SSD's where not showing- this is likely because I previously had them raided, and their partition tables are still messed up.  I'm sure it's not a big deal,  seams like I've had to fix the same thing on standard drives before after separating an array- can't seam to remember the process though.  The SSD doesn't seam to have any issues with the install.  There are tweaks I need to look up for this- as I've heard Linux is less then optimal for the way it uses SSD drives in terms of long term drive life (something about too much/frequent hd activity). The system installed and I chose the most basic GUI settings to ensure it wouldn't muck up the install.  (edit: second install revealed I can pick UI2 alpha without causing problems) The setup was easy since I didn't have much to configure,    the sound worked as was immediately apparent from video of the attractive lady guiding me through the set up.  it detected the one standard Hard drive in the system and I told it it could use it, it detected the dvd and said it was configured, detected the bluetooth and said it was configured- then it generates the scenarios and orbiters, and next thing I know I'm looking at the interface.  I noticed my dsl lighting up as it downloads software- hey, I have internet!  Wow- nice! Can't believe it was so easy! Now what?
-Looking at the menus was slightly discouraging, they were rather bland, and of course- I don't have anything linuxmce can control,  nor did I have any media cataloged.  After fumbling around the interface a bit I found the KDE desktop, and entered it- from the launch manager I changed the interface to the UI2 w/ alpha blending, after a quick reload- wow,  big difference,  that's more like it.  I popped in a DVD to see if my blu-ray drive was really configured- it said, 'blu-ray, hd dvd detected,  would you like to rip it?'.  I wasn't sure where it wanted to rip it, and didn't think there'd be enough space on the SSD (does riping BR's re-encode?) so I chose no;  I waited,  hoping it would play,  but it didn't.  Will have to look into that...  (edit: 64bit 7.10 does not play blue rays unless they're ripped to disk,  32bit may?,  ripping does not re-encode standard dvd's or blurays- they save in ISO formate, with the extention .dvd -standard DVD file size is up to 8.4GB, bluray up to 50GB.)  I popped a regular dvd in,  and was pleased when it did start playing after asking me if I wanted to rip,  I also noticed it knew the title of the movie.  I started the movie, and was rather disappointed with the quality-  it was a bit grainy and just off.  Something else I need to look into...  (edit:  have since played dvd's back to back vs windows- no difference,  just was an older movie.)
+Looking at the menus was slightly discouraging, they were rather bland, and of course- I don't have anything linuxmce can control,  nor did I have any media cataloged.  After fumbling around the interface a bit I found the KDE desktop, and entered it- from the launch manager I changed the interface to the UI2 w/ alpha blending, after a quick reload- wow,  big difference,  that's more like it.  I popped in a DVD to see if my blu-ray drive was really configured- it said, 'blu-ray, hd dvd detected,  would you like to rip it?'.  I wasn't sure where it wanted to rip it, and didn't think there'd be enough space on the SSD (does riping BR's re-encode? nope) so I chose no;  I waited,  hoping it would play,  but it didn't.  Will have to look into that...  (edit: 64bit 7.10 does not play blue rays unless they're ripped to disk,  32bit may?,  ripping does not re-encode standard dvd's or blurays- they save in ISO formate, with the extention .dvd -standard DVD file size is up to 8.4GB, bluray up to 50GB.)  I popped a regular dvd in,  and was pleased when it did start playing after asking me if I wanted to rip,  I also noticed it knew the title of the movie.  I started the movie, and was rather disappointed with the quality-  it was a bit grainy and just off.  Something else I need to look into...  (edit:  have since played dvd's back to back vs windows- no difference,  just was an older movie.)
 I decided I wanted to watch an HD movie off the hard drive and see how that would look,  so I plugged in my 1tb iomega usb drive,  a min later it was configured, and I told it NOT to use it unless specifically told too. (didn't want to risk anything being overwritten,  though that's hopefully not a realistic concern- edit: it's not,  and I should have told it to use the drive...)  then looking in the orbiter,  hmm,  no media listed...  I figured maybe it needed time so I went away and came back in an hour- still nothing.  So I went into the admin page, to try and fix things,  only it wouldn't let me log in with the user/pass I'd created during set up.  A quick search revealed that the correct User AND Pass is actually the first family member name you enter,  NOT the user pass you set up-  (edit: that's only used for sudo terminal commands) confusing,  but ok whatever...  got in admin and found the check box for 'use this drive', checked it, saved-  went away,  came back, still nothing...  (edit: the box aperently doesn't work,  lol.)  At that point I shrugged it off and thought I'd try and get my network going- then maybe I could access it through the other com on the network.  So I plugged in the router, and the two com's,  and then curiosity got the better of me so I tried to netboot the second box. That didn't work...  so I loaded up windows xp and logged into the (eth1 external- dlink) router,  found two problems- #1 the router had it's own dhcp server going. #2 the access logs showed something about 'dcerouter' (the core) trying to access from the wrong subnet 'ip spoofing' it said.

Marie.o: Asus P6T Deluxe i7 920 moved to ASUS P6T Deluxe i7 920

2009-10-14T08:41:55Z

Asus P6T Deluxe i7 920 moved to ASUS P6T Deluxe i7 920

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Ray N at 03:40, 11 August 2009

2009-08-11T03:40:28Z

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Friesian at 16:05, 21 May 2009

2009-05-21T16:05:37Z

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	**Generic 3.5 floppy		**Generic 3.5 floppy
	**Nvidia GTX280 (not working... haven't put much time into trying to get going)		**Nvidia GTX280 (not working... haven't put much time into trying to get going)
	**Nvidia 7800GTX (works OOB!)		**Nvidia 7800GTX (works OOB! -driver update attempt on 64bit failed)
	**Zailmen ZH 1000HP power supply		**Zailmen ZH 1000HP power supply
	**Silverstone TJ-07 case		**Silverstone TJ-07 case
	**Westinghouse 22" lcd monitor		**Westinghouse 22" lcd monitor

	*MD/dual boot Nlite micro XP system: (this system ~~may~~ encounter problems with one of it's ethernet ports (marvel yukon) on 64bit when netbooting)		*MD/dual boot Nlite micro XP system: (this system will encounter problems with one of it's ethernet ports (marvel yukon) on 64bit when netbooting. the nvidia 10/100 port works.)
	**Asus A8N32-sli-deluxe		**Asus A8N32-sli-deluxe
	**4gigs DDR2 (4x1gb sticks) OZ platinum (@400mghz?)		**4gigs DDR2 (4x1gb sticks) OZ platinum (@400mghz?)
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	**Generic IDE 16X multi format DVDR		**Generic IDE 16X multi format DVDR
	**Nvidia 7800GTX		**Nvidia 7800GTX
	**Patriot warp v2 32g SSD x3 (~~formerly in~~ raid0~~, in future will be spread among md's~~ for ~~dual boot, or just faster MD boot if supported- it's not in 7.10~~)		**Patriot warp v2 32g SSD x3 (raid0 array for swap/working xp)
	**180gb WD sata drive		**180gb WD sata drive
	**Maxtor One-Touch usb HD 300gb (NTFS and reserved for windows/backup for now)		**Maxtor One-Touch usb HD 300gb (NTFS and reserved for windows/backup for now)
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	**Bluetooth dongle (working? says it is. not sure what to do with it at this point...)		**Bluetooth dongle (working? says it is. not sure what to do with it at this point...)
	**Nice 7.1 stereo setup (working with analog input- digital doesn't seam to work presently.)		**Nice 7.1 stereo setup (working with analog input- digital doesn't seam to work presently.)
	**~~40in~~ HD sony trinatron CRT (doesn't work OOB- looking for a fix)		**36in HD sony trinatron CRT (doesn't work OOB- looking for a fix)
	**32in poleroid lcd tv/dvd (haven't tried yet)		**32in poleroid lcd tv/dvd (haven't tried yet)
	**Cannon all in one printer (haven't messed with it yet.)		**Cannon all in one printer (haven't messed with it yet.)
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	Install:		Install:
	Install of 64bit LinuxMCE went very smoothly overall. I first went into BIOS, turned off the raid and switched the drives to APCI (APIC?) mode. (edit- this is required as far as I can tell, and means no 'easy' dual boots w/ vista- must adjust bios) I also returned my over clock settings to factory settings for stability, and selected (edit: this is not required, and probably not the right way to do it) "non Plug and Play aware OS". -not sure if that was the right thing to do, but I felt that would ease the installation as the mother board would then handle more of the hardware. (I've since put this back to "plug and play aware OS" and installed that way- everything seams to be working.) The first attempt was with the GTX280 card- I really didn't expect it to work, so it was no surprise that it didn't; the first screen w/install options came up but after I picked install the screen went black and never came back. I turned off the system and put my old 7800GTX in- started installing, no problems. It may be possible to get the 280 working with a driver update, will save that for later.		Install of 64bit LinuxMCE went very smoothly overall. I first went into BIOS, turned off the raid and switched the drives to APCI (APIC?) mode. (edit- this is required as far as I can tell, and means no 'easy' dual boots w/ vista- must adjust bios) I also returned my over clock settings to factory settings for stability, and selected (edit: this is not required, and probably not the right way to do it) "non Plug and Play aware OS". -not sure if that was the right thing to do, but I felt that would ease the installation as the mother board would then handle more of the hardware. (I've since put this back to "plug and play aware OS" and installed that way- everything seams to be working.) The first attempt was with the GTX280 card- I really didn't expect it to work, so it was no surprise that it didn't; the first screen w/install options came up but after I picked install the screen went black and never came back. I turned off the system and put my old 7800GTX in- started installing, no problems. It may be possible to get the 280 working with a driver update, will save that for later. (edit: driver update failed to work with either card- ui1 only on 7800gtx worked @ <1080p, signifigantly decreased performance.)

	I considered installing on a standard HD rather then one of the Patriot SSD's for the sake of simplicity but I thought, what the hell... I did notice that 3 of my 4 SSD's where not showing- this is likely because I previously had them raided, and their partition tables are still messed up. I'm sure it's not a big deal, seams like I've had to fix the same thing on standard drives before after separating an array- can't seam to remember the process though. The SSD doesn't seam to have any issues with the install. There are tweaks I need to look up for this- as I've heard Linux is less then optimal for the way it uses SSD drives in terms of long term drive life (something about too much/frequent hd activity). The system installed and I chose the most basic GUI settings to ensure it wouldn't muck up the install. (edit: second install revealed I can pick UI2 alpha without causing problems) The setup was easy since I didn't have much to configure, the sound worked as was immediately apparent from video of the attractive lady guiding me through the set up. it detected the one standard Hard drive in the system and I told it it could use it, it detected the dvd and said it was configured, detected the bluetooth and said it was configured- then it generates the scenarios and orbiters, and next thing I know I'm looking at the interface. I noticed my dsl lighting up as it downloads software- hey, I have internet! Wow- nice! Can't believe it was so easy! Now what?		I considered installing on a standard HD rather then one of the Patriot SSD's for the sake of simplicity but I thought, what the hell... I did notice that 3 of my 4 SSD's where not showing- this is likely because I previously had them raided, and their partition tables are still messed up. I'm sure it's not a big deal, seams like I've had to fix the same thing on standard drives before after separating an array- can't seam to remember the process though. The SSD doesn't seam to have any issues with the install. There are tweaks I need to look up for this- as I've heard Linux is less then optimal for the way it uses SSD drives in terms of long term drive life (something about too much/frequent hd activity). The system installed and I chose the most basic GUI settings to ensure it wouldn't muck up the install. (edit: second install revealed I can pick UI2 alpha without causing problems) The setup was easy since I didn't have much to configure, the sound worked as was immediately apparent from video of the attractive lady guiding me through the set up. it detected the one standard Hard drive in the system and I told it it could use it, it detected the dvd and said it was configured, detected the bluetooth and said it was configured- then it generates the scenarios and orbiters, and next thing I know I'm looking at the interface. I noticed my dsl lighting up as it downloads software- hey, I have internet! Wow- nice! Can't believe it was so easy! Now what?

Friesian at 15:38, 21 May 2009

2009-05-21T15:38:09Z

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	Currently running LinuxMCE 7.10rc ~~64bit~~ DVD install- ~~until~~ I ~~break it again~~... Core/Hybrid Install was easy. Almost every thing works OOB. Spdiff and optical audio do not work OOB~~- will update this if I find a fix~~.		Currently running LinuxMCE 7.10rc 32bit DVD install- Previously ran 64bit, but I decided to switch to 32 when I botched up the install attempting to upgrade Nvidia drivers. I was careful to follow the directions and spent several hours looking for a solution and experimenting- Not sure if this is an issue with this hardware, or somehow I screwed up... Core/Hybrid Install was easy. Almost every thing works OOB. Spdiff and optical audio do not work OOB with 64bit (not tested yet with 32bit).

	*Main System core/hybrid, dual boot Nlite vista:		*Main System core/hybrid, dual boot Nlite vista:
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	**Westinghouse 22" lcd monitor		**Westinghouse 22" lcd monitor

	*MD/dual boot Nlite micro XP system:		*MD/dual boot Nlite micro XP system: (this system may encounter problems with one of it's ethernet ports (marvel yukon) on 64bit when netbooting)
	**Asus A8N32-sli-deluxe		**Asus A8N32-sli-deluxe
	**4gigs DDR2 (4x1gb sticks) OZ platinum (@400mghz?)		**4gigs DDR2 (4x1gb sticks) OZ platinum (@400mghz?)
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	**Nvidia 7800GTX		**Nvidia 7800GTX
	**Patriot warp v2 32g SSD x3 (formerly in raid0, in future will be spread among md's for dual boot, or just faster MD boot if supported- it's not in 7.10)		**Patriot warp v2 32g SSD x3 (formerly in raid0, in future will be spread among md's for dual boot, or just faster MD boot if supported- it's not in 7.10)
	**180gb WD sata drive ~~(will swap OS to SSD eventually and remove this)~~		**180gb WD sata drive
	**Maxtor One-Touch usb HD 300gb (NTFS and reserved for windows/backup for now)		**Maxtor One-Touch usb HD 300gb (NTFS and reserved for windows/backup for now)
	**Iomega usb HD 1TB (NTFS and reserved for windows/backup for now)		**Iomega usb HD 1TB (NTFS and reserved for windows/backup for now)
	**BFG 650w PS		**BFG 650w PS
	**SilverStone Lascala LC16M-R HTPC case (IMON IR/display/controls not yet integrated)		**SilverStone Lascala LC16M-R HTPC case (IMON IR/display/controls not yet integrated)
	**Presently ~~borrows monitor from~~ hybrid		**Presently shares KVM switch with hybrid
	**~~Hot~~ and ~~noisy, needs further improvement..~~.		**Case not suitable for GTX cards- and insuficient stock cooling for high watt processor and max drive capasity- add in fans may fix at expence of noise.

	*Other hardware: (not in use)		*Other hardware: (not in use)
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	*Future integration/dreams:		*Future integration/dreams:
	**OpenVpn + truecrypt (in case 'fair-use' ever becomes not so fair- and hey, they go well with my tinfoil hat ;) )		**OpenVpn + truecrypt (in case 'fair-use' ever becomes not so fair- and hey, they go well with my tinfoil hat ;)
	**Wire home with Cat 6 (I replaced plumbing last year, this should be cake- currently researching distributed vs centralised configurations for wiring considerations.)		**Wire home with Cat 6 (I replaced plumbing last year, this should be cake- currently researching distributed vs centralised configurations for wiring considerations.)
	**4-6 diskless MD's/slim servers or 2-3 +zoned audio		**4-6 diskless MD's/slim servers or 2-3 +zoned audio

Friesian at 01:33, 14 May 2009

2009-05-14T01:33:34Z

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