MeBrains
December 22nd, 2009, 06:08 PM
Early last month, I decided to drop Windows in favor of Ubuntu. It has been an okay experience up to now - difficult, but getting there.
I bought one of these ASRock ION 330 machine as HTPC, print server and web server and got to installing it quite okay. I started of with Karmic server, added Apache, PHP, XBMC. Got the sound working, the video, the resolutions of the HDTV connected through HDMI. I have TF-B4RT running in the background, installed FreeNX, have XBMC logging in automatically, starting XBMC etc.
And am looking at some minor problems now... for the last 2 days and I am not able to solve ANY anymore. Turns out these "minor" problems are not as minor as I initially believed...
allow the XBMC user to shutdown, reboot, suspend... I followed the tutorial and got to: sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc ... etc. Rebooted just in case. Guess what: it does not work and I am not able to find any new info on it.
have usplash show the XBMC spinner logo on the plasma's screen. Although when connecting a monitor, the resolution seems to be one the plasma should know, I get Pictore format not supported on it when booting. Seems to be unsolvable for now - even with "startup-manager"
USB mounts - when I installed I am pretty sure they mounted automatically. Not so anymore. Read dozens of other users' woes with it. No solutions.
XBMC seems to lose its known resolution on second start. In other words: it starts up okay, but if it needs to restart without a system reboot - the resolution is bad, i.e. noticeable through overscan. I have not really searched a lot for a potential solution.
Gnome overscan.
Anyhows, the first three have kept me busy for the better part of two days. I seem to run across unclosed bug reports too much with it and it seems I might be better of installing the system again. I am losing a lot of time here and I am wondering if I should not go back to MS's wonderful world.
Sorry for the rant. - needed t lay it off me for now.
Course... if you have solutions to one of the above. Feel free to post! :P
I bought one of these ASRock ION 330 machine as HTPC, print server and web server and got to installing it quite okay. I started of with Karmic server, added Apache, PHP, XBMC. Got the sound working, the video, the resolutions of the HDTV connected through HDMI. I have TF-B4RT running in the background, installed FreeNX, have XBMC logging in automatically, starting XBMC etc.
And am looking at some minor problems now... for the last 2 days and I am not able to solve ANY anymore. Turns out these "minor" problems are not as minor as I initially believed...
allow the XBMC user to shutdown, reboot, suspend... I followed the tutorial and got to: sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc ... etc. Rebooted just in case. Guess what: it does not work and I am not able to find any new info on it.
have usplash show the XBMC spinner logo on the plasma's screen. Although when connecting a monitor, the resolution seems to be one the plasma should know, I get Pictore format not supported on it when booting. Seems to be unsolvable for now - even with "startup-manager"
USB mounts - when I installed I am pretty sure they mounted automatically. Not so anymore. Read dozens of other users' woes with it. No solutions.
XBMC seems to lose its known resolution on second start. In other words: it starts up okay, but if it needs to restart without a system reboot - the resolution is bad, i.e. noticeable through overscan. I have not really searched a lot for a potential solution.
Gnome overscan.
Anyhows, the first three have kept me busy for the better part of two days. I seem to run across unclosed bug reports too much with it and it seems I might be better of installing the system again. I am losing a lot of time here and I am wondering if I should not go back to MS's wonderful world.
Sorry for the rant. - needed t lay it off me for now.
Course... if you have solutions to one of the above. Feel free to post! :P