User talk:Rjbradlow

Clientpro365 / Intel D915GRV Install & Config testing status

Waste of Ink!

Bad Burn / Media ??

Re-Burn Results - Chose: MCE Install

Let's try the Live choice... It's ALIVE!!!

Buckle your seatbelts... We're going for the install Kubuntu ride.

OK, so I burned a DVD and printed a fancy label on it... but it doesn't work. :-(

• Did I burn it too fast?
• Did I get a Bad download? ... Hmmm????

With the first DVD: Installing LinuxMCE, Kubuntu, or just trying Kubuntu all hung up and dumped me in to a cli.

I know that regular *buntu media works with this machine... Must be the media.

Re-Burn @ 2x

I burned another DVD at the slowest speed and tried again.

This burn works much better!

TIP: Always burn your ISO's at the slowest speed. I knew this, but being as tired as I was I just clickity - click - clicked through.

Step 1: Try to Install LMCE again.

Choosing LMCE Install I get to the MCE setup but the resolution is all messed up and the text is unreadable, and there is no way to make a selection. Nothing worked.

The Re-Burn Results - Thumb/picture on the right illustrates what I got after pressing the monitor's AUTO button which is actually better than what I started off with. Before pressing the AUTO button the screen and text were all scrunched up to the left into the size of the white box pictured.

The 8.10 DVD LinuxMCE installer is not working for me.

Next... I Try Kubuntu Live ... We're Good! That works fine. (Pictured)

Then Install Kubuntu went smoothly.

• All hardware worked and even setting the Appearance / Visual Effects / property of Kubuntu to Extra (best) worked well OOTB.

Install LMCE after Kubuntu

Let's try again.

I started the MCE install and went to bed after about 30 minutes to an hour into it, and woke up to find a plain grey screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else going on.

I did a Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to drop to a cli, logged in and 'startx' which brings me to the KDE desktop and a lower resolution than what I started with...

Before my LMCE installation I had 1920x1200 resoluton, I chose the 720p res in the lmce setup which freezes whatever resolution you choose as the maximum display size in kubuntu which now happens to be 1280x720. My small text is horrible. wtf.

Now I am trying to figure out how to back the lmce overlay resolution down since I chose the top best for nvidia cards during intial install before going to bed. I don't have a nvidia card in this box and I think this is where I am having trouble.

After Rebooting, the machine went to finish the install wizard and back to that same blank grey screen with just a mouse cursor.

I will get back to this mess later, as I don't have the time to waste on it now.

--RJBradlow 18:31, 24 April 2012 (CEST)

Update 2013 ... Sorta

Well, It's been over a year and I've had so many other things to do that I stuffed this box / project under a bench and forgot about it. Sorry if you came here looking for good news but this project is still on the back 40 burner.
But hey, you can always pick up the torch and run with it.!?

If I ever get one of those 'Round Tuits' I've heard about, maybe I'll kick this thing in the nuts and get it fired back up someday... maybe even with a later version?
c-ya