User:Jamo

Hey-ho, here I am at last. Have had LinuxMCE on my to-do list for a long time and I'm finally getting it off the ground.

Hope to use this page to show my setup with plenty of detail and comments in case anyone would want to duplicate/ learn from it.

Current Setup

Core/Hybrid

• Chassis: FOXCONN TSAA-426 300WATT ATX
• PSU: incl in Chassis: 300w
• Mobo: FOXCONN H61MX-V DDR3 LGA1155
• CPU: INTEL CORE I5 2400 3.1GHZ
• RAM: 8Gb (2x KINGSTON DDR3 4GB 1333)
• Cooling: CPU cooler, PSU cooler
• HDD: SEAGATE 32Gb SATA
• DVD: SONY +/- DVD WRITER 24+R,SATA

LMCE:

• 8.10 final
• UI1

Cost:

Issues:

• Presently, I seem to have a problem if I switch to the KDE desktop from the UI... desktop works fine but switching back to UI seems to hang up the MD or possibly the orbiter or both. I think the core is still working but haven't confirmed that.

Media Director 1: Lounge

• Chassis: HP6710b notebook
• PSU: integrated
• Mobo: ? Chipset: Mobile™ Intel® 965GM Express
• CPU: Intel Core™2 Duo Processor T7500 @ 2.2Ghz
• RAM: 2Gb
• Cooling: ?
• HDD: WD2500BEVT - SATA 232Gb
• DVD: MATSHITA DVD
• WLAN: 802.11b/g
• NIC1: Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet
• Bluetooth: Yes

Cost: ?

Issues: None as yet, just set up and haven't enabled bluetooth yet.

Media Director 2: Kitchen

• Chassis: IBM Thinkpad T30 notebook
• PSU: integrated
• Mobo: ? Chipset: ?
• CPU: ?
• RAM: ?
• Cooling: ?
• HDD: ?
• DVD: ?
• WLAN: none
• NIC1: ?
• Bluetooth: No

Cost: ?

Issues: Failed to Setup X on first boot (see Troubleshooting tips below)

Media Director 3: Study

• Chassis: Dell Optiplex ???
• PSU: ???
• Mobo: ? Chipset: ?
• CPU: Intel Core™2 Duo Processor ????
• RAM: 2Gb
• Cooling: ?
• HDD: SATA 2Tb
• DVD: ?
• WLAN: none
• NIC1: ?
• NIC2: ?
• Bluetooth: No

Cost: ?

Issues: None as yet.

A/V equipment

• Amplifier: Onkyo TX-7440

Network Hub

x Port generic 10/100 hub

Next step

• Enable bluetooth on MD1 and try to use mobile orbiter on Nokia 5800

Proposed Setup

still under construction....

Troubleshooting and tips

Troubleshooting

• Failed to setup X: IBM Thinkpad T30 MD CReation
• MDs hanging / freezing

Tips

• Nvidia card needs to be 6200 or better

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last edit: 15/12/2012