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- olympia - 2009-02-04 10:45
alanwww1 Wrote:Hello Olympia !
I tried the guide with Hardy instead of Intrepid.
It works ok. Some points i had to change but the only thing i really miss is that Power off, supend buttons are not working. I mean they do NOTHING if i press them.
Do you have any idea what could be the problem ?
I installed package "pm-utils" because it was not installed by default.
I made it with the latest just released Hardy 8.04.2 LTS with alterbate install CD minimal install, without gnome.
Isn't there some scripts have to be filled to have suspend, power off working ?
Hey alanwww1,
First of all, I am not sure how strictly you followed the guide, as pm-utils is included among the packages in the second step...
However, in case of hardy, you also need to install "hal" package with apt-get.
...and also be sure not to miss the PolicyKit.conf file from the guide, which is also cruicial.
- SwedishGojira - 2009-02-04 10:47
Great guide! I've managed to set a nice XBMC-box up thanks to this.
What I'm wondering is if it's possible to boot gnome in the background so that you can switch to it for moving files and such.
I'm a newbie to Linux so don't bash me if I've missed something please...
- olympia - 2009-02-04 11:00
SwedishGojira Wrote:Great guide! I've managed to set a nice XBMC-box up thanks to this.
What I'm wondering is if it's possible to boot gnome in the background so that you can switch to it for moving files and such.
I'm a newbie to Linux so don't bash me if I've missed something please...
well, as it is written in the introduction, this guide is for a deticated htpc.
If you want gnome, the best choice to install normal ubuntu instead of minimal, but in this case the guide won't work (definitely not for the autostart and autologin part).
Or you may install a samba server to manage your files from windows, but I will not cover that in the guide. If somebody would like to add this to the guide, feel free, it's welcomed.
- SwedishGojira - 2009-02-04 11:10
olympia Wrote:well, as it is written in the introduction, this guide is for a deticated htpc.
If you want gnome, the best choice to install normal ubuntu instead of minimal, but in this case the guide won't work (definitely not for the autostart and autologin part).
Or you may install a samba server to manage your files from windows, but I will not cover that in the guide. If somebody would like to add this to the guide, feel free, it's welcomed.
I already have a separate install of the normal ubuntu, but what I was looking for was an easy way to make quick changes to the XBMC settings and add or remove images from the libraries and such.
A samba server was a nice idea though... I'll look into that. If someone else wants to help me then please PM me.
- spozen - 2009-02-04 11:15
SwedishGojira Wrote:I already have a separate install of the normal ubuntu, but what I was looking for was an easy way to make quick changes to the XBMC settings and add or remove images from the libraries and such.
A samba server was a nice idea though... I'll look into that. If someone else wants to help me then please PM me.
Are you familiar with the linux terminal? If so you should look into ssh.
- SwedishGojira - 2009-02-04 11:17
spozen Wrote:Are you familiar with the linux terminal? If so you should look into ssh.
No' I'm not that familiar with the terminal. I'm still learning.
I'm used to DOS and windows systems and that's why I'd like an easier way to handle the files.
- spozen - 2009-02-04 11:25
Well i guess samba is the way for you to go. And since you are from Sweden this tutorial should be easy to understand:
http://ubuntu-se.org/Wiki/Samba
- legoburner - 2009-02-04 12:33
One glitch that I experienced following this guide was that plugins and scripts were not working properly. A little investigation showed that at no point is zip ever installed (apt-get install zip) which is a requirement for building the python library correctly during the make step. Once I installed zip and rebuilt the project the scripts worked perfectly, so assuming I did not make some illogical error occur, perhaps zip should be added to the initial apt-get install command?
Thanks for the great guide, made things very simple!
- olympia - 2009-02-04 12:46
legoburner Wrote:One glitch that I experienced following this guide was that plugins and scripts were not working properly. A little investigation showed that at no point is zip ever installed (apt-get install zip) which is a requirement for building the python library correctly during the make step. Once I installed zip and rebuilt the project the scripts worked perfectly, so assuming I did not make some illogical error occur, perhaps zip should be added to the initial apt-get install command?
Thanks for the great guide, made things very simple!
If this is the case, the README.Linux in SVN should be updated as well.
Could you please give an example script which is not working?
Thank you for the feedback!
- danode - 2009-02-04 14:20
anyone else got a problem w/ audio synch in 24hz? i have A/V synch in 50 and 60hz, but 24fps material gets out of sync up to two secs, when all of a sudden the video gets superfast and gets to sync, for some seconds bfore starting to get out of sync again.
i use coaxial digital audio.