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- paac - 2009-01-28 14:34
Fantastic guide, made me reinstall my Uduntu Desktop x86-installation and discovered that the mini-version of Ubuntu is a lot better as it is more customized to your needs.
I have the Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H-board and feed my 7.1-receiver via HDMI and can just say that this is a fantastic HTPC/Server-setup which is also girl friend friendly
Some glitches has been discovered. XBMC has hung a couple of times when trying to open a file.. I need to try and open it/them from another player before I can say for sure that it is XBMC's fault.
I also have a request for automatic refresh rate change, so if I for example play a HD-rip it'll automatically change to 24hz. I don't know if this might be a too specific implementation, but I've read somewhere here that is it possible. Will try and search that up and test it myself.
- olympia - 2009-01-28 14:49
paac Wrote:I also have a request for automatic refresh rate change, so if I for example play a HD-rip it'll automatically change to 24hz. I don't know if this might be a too specific implementation, but I've read somewhere here that is it possible. Will try and search that up and test it myself.
Look at video settings in XBMC...
- MockY - 2009-01-29 06:59
The -y flag is handled as a pakage:
Code:
E: Couldn't find package –y- olympia - 2009-01-29 08:32
MockY Wrote:The -y flag is handled as a pakage:
Should I remove the flag and go ahead and install the packages, or is something wrong?Code:
E: Couldn't find package –y
Are you sure it's still "-y" and not ".y" after copy/paste? If it transforms to ".y" during copy/paste, you indeed need to change it back to "-y".
But of course you can leave it out. It is just an option fo force a "yes" answer to all of the questions...
- MockY - 2009-01-29 09:10
no, I used - (dash) and not . (dot). I tried the -y flag on the lirc install and -y was still treated as a package. I left it out and everything is now installed. The first time it started up, everything worked just fine. I could stream some TV shows but I had no sound (I simply use a speaker cable directly from the computer in to the TV). I changed as suggested in the tutorial and rebooted. Now when I try to run the same TV show, it freezes completely. I press play but nothing happens. *sigh*. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace dumps me to ttyl1 and when I switch back to ttyl2, X-server seems to have crashed, complaining about some D-bus session Autolaunch error.
Using GeForce 6200.
- KRavEN - 2009-01-30 01:28
On an ASUS P5N7A-VM I can use the following .asoundrc file and get hdmi passthrough and navigation sounds.
/home/xbmc/.asoundrc
Code:
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
ipc_key_add_uid false
ipc_perm 0660
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3"
rate 48000
channels 2
format S32_LE
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_time 0
buffer_size 4096
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}- hipfan - 2009-01-30 04:51
paac Wrote:I have the Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H-board and feed my 7.1-receiver via HDMI and can just say that this is a fantastic HTPC/Server-setup which is also girl friend friendly
I'm glad to hear you got everything working with this board. I also have the GA-E7AUM-DS2H, but I'm having trouble getting AC3 passthrough over HDMI working with Linux.
My Setup: HTPC --(hdmi)-- Sony Z4100 --(spdif)-- Older Sony Receiver
HTPC: E8400 running Ubuntu 8.10 with Alsa 1.0.19
AC3 passthrough works fine with XBMC on Vista (and with my PS3 and cable box to the same TV), but only 2 channel LPCM works with Linux. When I try to pass AC3 over HDMI, I get a repeated clicking or buzzing sound (the same happens when I use mplayer with -ac hwac3, and the hdmi output device).
Did you do anything special in your config (like with .asoundrc, etc)?
Has anyone also experienced this issue?
- paac - 2009-01-30 17:17
hipfan Wrote:I'm glad to hear you got everything working with this board. I also have the GA-E7AUM-DS2H, but I'm having trouble getting AC3 passthrough over HDMI working with Linux.
My Setup: HTPC --(hdmi)-- Sony Z4100 --(spdif)-- Older Sony Receiver
HTPC: E8400 running Ubuntu 8.10 with Alsa 1.0.19
AC3 passthrough works fine with XBMC on Vista (and with my PS3 and cable box to the same TV), but only 2 channel LPCM works with Linux. When I try to pass AC3 over HDMI, I get a repeated clicking or buzzing sound (the same happens when I use mplayer with -ac hwac3, and the hdmi output device).
Did you do anything special in your config (like with .asoundrc, etc)?
Has anyone also experienced this issue?
Nope, nothing special. Just renamed the outputs to hdmi and it worked. I _might_ have just been playing DTS since I did this set-up.
My hardware set-up is:
HTPC --(hdmi)--> Yamaha RX-V663 receiver (with 5.0-speakers connected) --(hdmi)--> Sony KDL-46W4000 TV
Will try AC3 to confirm when I get home
- paac - 2009-01-30 17:23
olympia Wrote:Look at video settings in XBMC...
Ahaa, doh!
It still does not adjust the refreshrate though... I'm having your xorg.conf-file loaded as I also have got a 1080p24-capable TV.
Have also tried different resolutions, but the refreshrate doesn't seem to change, even when I select 1920_1080@24... Very odd.
I've also got a new problem. My kernel got automatically upgraded to 2.6.27-11, but XBMC doesn't want to autostart when running the new kernel.
It might be something really simple...
- CrashX - 2009-01-30 19:40
Maybe we should add this to the guide as well:
We can now monitor temperature readings from lm-sensors by modifying the advancedsettings.xml.
<advancedsettings>
<gputempcommand>echo "$(nvidia-settings -tq gpuCoreTemp) C"</gputempcommand>
<cputempcommand>echo "$(sensors -u | grep "temp2_input"| awk '{print $2 }' |awk '{printf("%d\n",$1 + 0.5);}') C"</cputempcommand>
</advancedsettings>
See http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=43621 for details: