Revision as of 02:57, 5 January 2010

Core/MD Hybrid

Hardware

(This is a one network card installation)

• Asus T3-P5945GCX Barebones with 3.00GHz Pentium 4
• Nvidia GeForce 6600 256 MB PCI-E 16x Video Card (DVI Output)
• 2 GB Generic RAM
• 80 GB Seagate ST380215A Hard Drive (for the OS and temporary media storage)
• 1 TB Western Digital 10EAVS External Hard drive (for media storage)
• DVDRAM GSA-4167B

Peripherals and Accessories

24 inch Sceptre LCD Monitor (DVI) 5.1 Channel Creative Sound System Gigaware microphone Generic USB 5 Button Wireless Optical Mouse with Scroll Wheel Generic Wireless PS/2 keyboard Ezonics EZCam USB Webcam Microsoft NX-6000 Webcam Generic 7-port USB Hub USB Bluetooth Dongle with CSR chipset HP Deskjet 2545 USB Printer

Software

LinuxMCE 0810 beta2

X10 Devices

Controlling

Controller: CM11A Remote: KR22A

Controlled

LM465 is dimmable AM466 is not dimmable RR501 is not dimmable and is a remote control receiver (Can only be unit code 1 or 9)

 Device Code | Module | Description
      B1     | RR501  | Sound System Power
      B2     | LM465  | Floor Light
      B3     | LM465  | Light Tree
      B4     | LM465  | Desk Light
      B5     | AM466  | Monitor Power
      B6     | AM466  | Rope Lights & Strobe Light
      B7     | AM466  | Fan
      B8 ------------------------------------------
      B9     | RR501  | Black Lights

The Installation

LMCE 0810 beta2 Installation

1. Followed the internet installation instructions located here
2. Upon reboot, I temporarily hooked the monitor to VGA to go through AVWizard
3. Chose DVI output, 1080p, 60 Hz, OpenGL with Alpha Blending, stereo sound, 100% volume, and hit I Agree
4. Upon finishing the AVWizard, there was a grey screen with large text displaying each package that was installed
5. This continued until it got to the Orbiter Regeneration
6. After the orbiter regeneration, I had the infamous grey screen with a cursor
7. I used Alt-F2 to get to get to tty2, and logged in
8. I edited the /etc/network/interfaces file as such:

/etc/network/interfaces
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet static
       address 192.168.200.42
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       gateway 192.168.200.1
    auto eth0:1
    iface eth0:1 inet static
       address 192.168.80.1
       netmask 255.255.255.0