User:Pw44
Initial Hardware Setup:
Asus M3N78-VM with AMD 955
SPDIF expansion card (Asus SPDIF OUT/COA+OPT)
2 GB DDR3 800 Mhz
3 500 GB HD in a RAID 5 conf (mdadm)
1 320 GB HD boot (1 partition for LMCE, 1 partition for Kubuntu 8.10, both having access to the RAID 5 /dev/md0)
Gyration Keyboard and air mouse
USB-UIRT with a Xantex 284D
Intel Pro 1000 NIC card (internal network)
Bluetooth dongle - Motorola
Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE Edition
Wiimote remote
Philips 37" LCD TV
Yamaha DSP-A1 amplifier
Linksys SPA-3102
Linksys PAP2T-NA (x2)
IP Cam XWP (www.MayGion.com)
Software
Prior: LMCE Beta 1 issues:
- TV overscan (solved)
- Subtitles (not solved)
Now: Beta 2 - time to start all over again - learned with Beta 1.
Installation:
Kubuntu 8.10
-> apt-get update.
-> apt-get upgrade.
-> apt-get dist-upgrade.
-> update Alsa to Alsa 1.0.21-4
All done with the VGA monitor.
LCD TV is also connected to the mobo's HDMI video output.
Running nvidia-settings, LCD TV identified.
After all is done (installations and reboots), KDE shows up,i disconnect the vga cable, hit CTRL-ALT-Backspace and the video output is redirected to HDMI.
First problem: video overscan.
-- Solution: nvidia-settings shows an overscan ruler. Save conf to ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
HDMI Sound works (KDE welcome sound) - it plays on TV speakers.
Second problem: network interfaces are switched - the mobo interface shows as eth1 and the Gb Intel interface shows eth0.
-- Solution: edit file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and change eth1 to eth0 on first entry (mobo interface) and change eth0 to eth1 (Gb Intel interface) - after reboot, it works like it should.
LMCE Beta 2
connect optical cable from the SPDIF Expansion card (the mobo's SPDIF does not shows up) to the Yamaha optical in.
install from internet.
Reboot.
AVWizard: HDMI / 720p / UI2 / Optical Spdif.
Initial setup (Sara).
Ready to use - ksmserver not found.
Monitor attach to VGA, CRTL-ALT-F1, sudo apt-get install ksmserver, dolphin, konsole, and much....
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop - what was still missing, is back again.
Reboot.
LMCE starts again, KDE works... but HDMI sound is gone, but the sound via optical is great.
Third problem: some files does play sound.
-- Solution: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9194.msg62958#msg62958).<br
Fourth problem: overscan rises up again....
-- Solution: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9567.msg65417#msg65417
Fifth problem: disk access stucks, freezing the system.
-- Solution: none, because it was my mistake... i didn't realize that the RAID 5 needed time to resync after i transfered almost 450 GB of files, so in fact, it was not a problem. After resync, no more read/write delays.
to be continued.
