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| − | == Getting AD04 working under 10.04 ==
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| − | === Setting up PXE boot ===
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| − | === First boot ===
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| − | Once PXE boot is working, device should happily boot from Gig NIC connected to internal linuxMCE network. It will follow the normal pattern of MD creation up to the second or third reboot where it gets into a rebooting loop, ended by the error "firstrun exited outside normal code flow". I believe this is because the fglrx driver which is correctly installed for the video card, has a bug which makes it not recognise the video card. This is a bug of fglrx (catalyst) 2.6.
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| − | If you leave it, the reboot loop happens 4-5 times and then, surprisingly, goes to avwiz. However, avwiz won't let you get any better graphics than 720p UI1 which isn't very nice considering he capabilities of the graphics card and, probably your display. So,to sort this out, before running AVWiz* you need to get in and install the latest catalyst driver as described in the following section.
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| − | === Install Latest Catalyst Driver (fglrx) ===
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| − | * At this point (before going through AVWiz) I ssh into the new MD from the core as root and run
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| − | <pre>
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| − | apt-get update
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| − | apt-get upgrade
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| − | </pre>
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| − | To bring all the updated packages in. But don't reboot yet or the system will try to sort itself out with L3's backport stuff which doesn't work at the moment, at least not for me. Rather manually remove as much of fglrx as you can and then install the latest catalyst driver.
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| − | <pre>
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| − | apt-get --purge remove xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx fglrx-modalias* fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-kernel-source xorg-driver-fglrx-dev
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| − | </pre>
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| − | There may be more you can remove... in the end I still ran the catalyst install with --force because it seemed to think there was an existing driver installed but this was all I could find.
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| − | Then download the latest catalyst driver, unzip and run it-
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| − | <pre>
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| − | wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.zip
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| − | unzip amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4.10-x86.x86_64.zip
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| − | chmod a+x amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.run
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| − | ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.run
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| − | </pre>
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| − | Go through the install... next next next essentially. If it whines about existing install and you feel you've removed all fglrx packages you can, then
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| − | <pre>
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| − | ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.run --force
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| − | </pre>
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| − | Will prevent that check.
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| − | On some TVs, you get a black border around the picture. I gather this is caused by underscan. The aticonfig command allows you to disable underscan but this setting does not survive reboot unless you do it while X is not running! Tricky... so you have to ssh into the MD from somewhere (as root) and then run
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| − | <pre>
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| − | /usr/pluto/bin/Stop_X.sh
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| − | aticonfig --set-pcs-val=MCIL,DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan,0
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| − | </pre>
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| − | That should sort it out. Reboot the machine and the black border should be gone!
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| − | === Sound over HDMI ===
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| − | To get this to work I had to set
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| − | <pre>
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| − | AlternateSC = 1</pre> in /etc/pluto.conf
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| − |
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| − | == Bundled MCE remote ==
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| − | Remote appears to emulate a USB keyboard out the box. This has limited use in UI2 as only the arrow keys, "ok" = click, and "enter" are useful.
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| − | Experimenting with steps from the following thread: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_on_Ubuntu_with_AMD_GPU#Step_13:_Configuring_Remote_Control
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| − | to try to get it working. Steps followed (ssh to MD as root):
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| − | * Install requirements
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| − | <pre>
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| − | apt-get install automake dialog libtool
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Download the version from FernetMenta
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| − | <pre>
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| − | wget https://github.com/FernetMenta/lirc/tarball/master -O lirc.tar.gz
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Extract, configure and install:
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| − | When you will run setup.sh, choose select driver "zotac" under usb, then save & configure
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| − | <pre>
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| − | tar -xvf ./lirc.tar.gz
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| − | cd FernetMenta-lirc-c336b00/
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| − | ./autogen.sh
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| − | ./setup.sh
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| − | make
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| − | make install
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Create links /usr/sbin:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | cd /usr/sbin
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| − | ln -s ../local/sbin/lircd lircd
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| − | ln -s ../local/sbin/lircmd lircmd
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Stop X11 from registering device as keyboard <== I haven't been able to do this because I couldn't find the file mentioned below. Included for later.
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| − | IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!
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| − | Xorg update could overwrite this file, if you later experience some kind of strange key repeating, sometime infinite and always boring, it may have been overwritten! In this case, just redo this step and you're done ^^
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| − | Edit "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf" and place the following code at the begining of the file: <=== I couldn't find this file
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| − | <pre>
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| − | Section "InputClass"
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| − | Identifier "PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus"
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| − | MatchProduct "PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus"
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| − | MatchIsKeyboard "true"
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| − | Option "Ignore" "true"
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| − | EndSection
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Find vendor and product ids for remote from the appropriate section
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| − | <pre>
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| − | cat /proc/bus/input/devices
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| − | .
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| − | .
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| − | I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0471 Product=20cc Version=0100
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| − | N: Name="PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus"
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| − | P: Phys=usb-0000:00:12.0-1/input0
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| − | S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/input/input4
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| − | U: Uniq=
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| − | H: Handlers=kbd event4
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| − | B: EV=120013
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| − | B: KEY=c0000 400 0 0 0 0 58000 8001f8 4000c004 e0beffdf 1cfffff ffffffff fffffffe
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| − | B: MSC=10
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| − | B: LED=1f
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| − | .
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| − | </pre>
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| − |
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| − | * Add a alias in udev to /dev/remote by creating a new file at /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules with the following:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | SUBSYSTEM=="usb" , ATTRS{idVendor}=="0471", ATTRS{idProduct}=="20cc", SYMLINK+="remote", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/sbin/initctl --quiet emit --no-wait ir-ready"
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Replace (in my case create) the current version of /etc/lirc/hardware.conf with:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | # hardware.conf for Zotac
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| − | #
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| − | REMOTE="Zotac MCE Remote"
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| − | REMOTE_MODULES=""
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| − | REMOTE_DRIVER="zotac"
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| − | REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/remote"
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| − | REMOTE_SOCKET=""
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| − | REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="zotac/lircd.conf.zotac"
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| − | REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
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| − | TRANSMITTER="None"
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| − | TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
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| − | TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
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| − | TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
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| − | TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
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| − | TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF=""
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| − | TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
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| − | START_LIRCD="true"
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| − | LOAD_MODULES="true"
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| − | LIRCMD_CONF=""
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| − | FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"
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| − | START_LIRCMD=""
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * Replace (in my case not necessary, it already existed and was much the same!) the current version of /etc/lirc/lircd.conf with:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | # Please make this file available to others
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| − | # by sending it to
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| − | #
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| − | # this config file was automatically generated
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| − | # using lirc-0.9.1-git(zotac) on Mon Apr 2 14:10:29 2012
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| − | #
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| − | # contributed by
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| − | #
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| − | # brand: zotac.conf
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| − | # model no. of remote control:
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| − | # devices being controlled by this remote:
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| − | #
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| − | begin remote
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| − | name zotac.conf
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| − | bits 32
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| − | eps 30
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| − | aeps 100
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| − |
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| − | one 0 0
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| − | zero 0 0
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| − | gap 100123
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| − | min_repeat 9
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| − | # suppress_repeat 9
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| − | # uncomment to suppress unwanted repeats
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| − | # toggle_bit_mask 0x7004F
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| − | begin codes
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| − | KEY_SLEEP 0x00010082
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| − | KEY_WAKEUP 0x00010083
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| − | KEY_RECORD 0x000C00B2
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| − | KEY_PAUSE 0x000C00B1
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| − | KEY_STOP 0x000C00B7
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| − | KEY_REWIND 0x000C00B4
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| − | KEY_PLAY 0x000C00B0
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| − | KEY_FORWARD 0x000C00B3
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| − | KEY_LEFTSHIFT 0x000C00B6
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| − | KEY_RIGHTSHIFT 0x000C00B5
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| − | KEY_BACK 0x000C0224
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| − | KEY_INFO 0x000C0209
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| − | KEY_MENU 0xFFBC000D
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| − | KEY_UP 0x00070052
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| − | KEY_LEFT 0x00070050
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| − | KEY_RIGHT 0x0007004F
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| − | KEY_DOWN 0x00070051
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| − | KEY_OK 0x00070028
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| − | KEY_VOLUMEUP 0x000C00E9
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| − | KEY_VOLUMEDOWN 0x000C00EA
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| − | KEY_MUTE 0x000C00E2
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| − | KEY_CHANNELUP 0x000C009C
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| − | KEY_CHANNELDOWN 0x000C009D
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| − | KEY_1 0x0007001E
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| − | KEY_2 0x0007001F
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| − | KEY_3 0x00070020
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| − | KEY_4 0x00070021
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| − | KEY_5 0x00070022
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| − | KEY_6 0x00070023
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| − | KEY_7 0x00070024
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| − | KEY_8 0x00070025
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| − | KEY_9 0x00070026
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| − | KEY_0 0x00070027
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| − | KEY_NUMERIC_STAR 0x10070025
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| − | KEY_NUMERIC_POUND 0x10070020
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| − | KEY_CLEAR 0x00070029
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| − | KEY_TEXT 0xFFBC005A
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| − | KEY_TITLE 0x000C008D
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| − | KEY_ENTER 0x00070028
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| − | KEY_RED 0xFFBC005B
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| − | KEY_GREEN 0xFFBC005C
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| − | KEY_YELLOW 0xFFBC005D
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| − | KEY_BLUE 0xFFBC005E
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| − | end codes
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| − |
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| − | end remote
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| − | </pre>
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| − | * reboot
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| − | I then followed the steps in
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| − | http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Adding_iMON_PAD
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| − | and pasted the config file (lircd.conf) into the configuration data I added in the new template. Then chose "Spine 1 plus" as remote for my MD.... still waiting to see if it works.
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| − | = Current issues on 10.04 =
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| − | *Radeon HD6320 graphics does not work out of the box - no avwiz, vesa gfx pop up
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| − | ** See forum post:http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,12993.0.html
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| − |
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| − | *HDMI sound does not work out of the box (in fact no sound does)
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| − | ** See forum post:http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,12993.0.html
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| − | = Links =
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You have to press "Del" key during POST just after ZOTAC sign appears on screen to enter BIOS. In my system, you could use the keyboard to navigate BIOS but the highlighting didn't work well so when
you went "down" a menu you had to count your keypreses to figure out which option you were on before pressing enter.
Once PXE boot is working, device should happily boot from Gig NIC connected to internal linuxMCE network. It will follow the normal pattern of MD creation up to the third reboot where it gets into a loop trying to sort out the video card. You will be left at the last text message - "trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx" or something as it flashes the screen clearly trying to start X, failing and dropping back to this point. This happens about 20 times before you miraculously end up in AVWiz.
You may have a TV underscan black border, depending on your TV. My Hisense 40" LCD does require tweaking (see below).
However, I found that with the default driver installed above, there were the following issues:
I solved most of these issues by upgrading to the latest catalyst driver as outlined below. After doing this, video playback was noticably better, youtube was much better, certainly watchable, the screensaver issues were gone and I had alpha blending.
Download the latest ATI driver for Linux. At the time of writing it was 13.35 (download file is called
Linux_AMD_Catalyst_14.3_Beta_V1.0_B22_March12_2014.zip)
You need to get the zip file onto your MD- the way
I did it was to sftp it to the core and then moved it into the root drive of the appropriate MD /usr/pluto/diskles/XX/root
where XX is the media director number. You will need to do all this as root on the core.
That creates a folder called fglrx-13.35.1005
Inside that folder is amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run
Make sure it is executable... if necessary add the executable bit:
On my system this threw errors which meant fglrx wasn't completely removed so I had to use the force option when running the installer:
Takes a while... just follow the prompts and accept the licence.
Then, when done, configure. You need to stop X before configuring:
That should sort it out. Reboot the machine with AVWiz and it should work!
