User:Chrysemys

Some 12 years of Debian experience might be enough to start useng LinuxMCE, just not much experience in editing wiki's

Started this project recently and assembled the following hardware:

Hardware

core

• MoBo: MSI 770-C45
• CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620
• RAM:(4GB) OCZ Platinum Low Voltage OCZ3P1333LV4GK
• CPU cooler: Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B
• GPU: Club3D 9400GT HDMI Passive.
• HD: 3x Samsung EcoGreen F2 EG HD154UI, 1.5TB
• PSU: Nexus NX-5000 R3 530W; nice and silent if only the case fans could also perform that silent.
• Case: Chieftec CA-01B-B-SL, a bit big, but lots of space for air circulation
• TV-card: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000

Media Director

• MoBo: MSI 770-C45
• Case: Silverstone LC17
• CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 215
• CPU Cooler:Scythe Ninja Mini Rev. B
• GPU: Club3D 9400GT HDMI Passive.
• PSU: Nexus Value 430
• Infrared Tranceiver: IguanaIR

Orbiters

• Nokia N800
• Nokia N810

Issues encountered

It is pretty modern hardware in comparison with Kubuntu-Intrepid, so I suspect some mods and tweaks are nessecary to get things running.

IguanaIR

First add the IguanaIR repository to /etc/apt/sources.list:

 deb-src http://iguanaworks.net/downloads/debian source/
 deb http://iguanaworks.net/downloads/debian binary-i386/
 deb http://iguanaworks.net/downloads/debian binary-amd64/

(Since MCE is 32-bits only, the last line is actually not necessary) Then go to a clean directory

(for example: sudo mkdir /usr/local/src/Lirc;cd /usr/local/src/Lirc) And issue

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install iguanair
sudo apt-get build-dep lirc 
sudo apt-get -b source lirc

Kernel: MoBo NIC & GPU

The on-board NIC (RTL 8111/8168B) is not supported by Intrepid's native desktop kernel. The first homebuilt kernels (according to http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu: How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way.) got this card running out of the box, but in all my from-scratch kernel configuration attempts, the NVIDIA kernel driver was broken.

I then copied the config of the correct operational Maverick Meerkat distribution kernel 2.6.35.4 to the source of the ditto kernel and forged a new kernel package from that.

The NIC is supported (easy) and the compiled NVIDIA (v260.19.12) kernel driver appears to be loadable. Upon MCE -installation I suppose this will be automagically replaced by the nvidia distribution package.

installation MCE alpha-2

• 2010 07 29: installation of current mce 810. Screwed thing up with grub and NVIDIA drivers.

• 2010 11 09 : Reinstalled Intrepid, its sources have been removed from Ubuntu's main site, need to use the archives:

  deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted universe multiverse
  deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted universe multiverse

Some repo's appear to be missing, fortunatly someone posted the following at the forum:

  deb http://fastspeedtest.net/mirrors/ubuntu/ intrepid  main restricted universe multiverse 
  deb http://fastspeedtest.net/mirrors/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates  main restricted universe multiverse 
  deb http://fastspeedtest.net/mirrors/ubuntu/ intrepid-security  main restricted universe multiverse 
  deb http://ubuntu.k-net.ru/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports  main restricted universe multiverse