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+---- Thread: [LINUX] Acer Aspire Revo (NVIDIA Ion) with XBMC for Linux performance and stability? (/showthread.php?tid=49963)
- Hannes The Hun - 2009-06-16
when you have optical in on your receiver, you can go directly from the USB audio plug, else you use an ebay adapter. all of these cheapo plugs use more or less the same chips (i.e. VIA, c-media etc.) which should be fully supported by ALSA.
so yes, you stick this audio usb plug in your revo, ALSA/XBMC will detect it, you select digital audio, and that's it. never understood why acer didn't include an SPDIF into the revo anyways....
- JUICESIX90 - 2009-06-17
JUICESIX90 Wrote:Thanks, I had tried that but I can't get past step 1:
1. Verify that your network device ("wlan0"?) is working & your wireless network is detected:
Quote:
iwconfig
Quote:
sudo iwlist scan
I get -bash: iwconfig: command not found
Any help me put with this?
Without a wireless connection I'm having to connect via ethernet cable running half the length of my house. I just want wireless to be able to grab cover art etc.
Cheers
- ReMuZ - 2009-06-17
Hannes The Hun Wrote:when you have optical in on your receiver, you can go directly from the USB audio plug, else you use an ebay adapter. all of these cheapo plugs use more or less the same chips (i.e. VIA, c-media etc.) which should be fully supported by ALSA.
so yes, you stick this audio usb plug in your revo, ALSA/XBMC will detect it, you select digital audio, and that's it. never understood why acer didn't include an SPDIF into the revo anyways....
Ok cool, sounds easy. Thanks!
- bentzl - 2009-06-17
JUICESIX90 Wrote:Any help me put with this?
Without a wireless connection I'm having to connect via ethernet cable running half the length of my house. I just want wireless to be able to grab cover art etc.
Cheers
I already answered your question. If you don't know how to install packages in Ubuntu, then take a look at the documentation.
- JUICESIX90 - 2009-06-17
bentzl Wrote:I already answered your question. If you don't know how to install packages in Ubuntu, then take a look at the documentation.
You did, yes. But I don't have Ubuntu installed (or if it is then it came shipped with the Revo) therein lies the problem.
According to l.capriotti on the previous page I don't need to but the guide he linked me too doesn't work for me, I get -bash: iwconfig: command not found on step 1
Now I'm a complete novice regarding Linux so it's quite possible i'm missing something very obvious here. I just need someone to tell me what that is.
- erhnam - 2009-06-17
I want to control the Acer Revo's Fan. I'm trying to get this thing working on my Revo:
http://www.piie.net/index.php?section=acerhdf
When I look the dmesg I can see this:
[ 4628.496309] acerhdf: version: 0.4.0-3 compiledate: Jun 17 2009 20:03:32
[ 4628.496319] acerhdf: biosvendor:Acer
[ 4628.496323] acerhdf: biosversion
01-A0[ 4628.496327] acerhdf: biosrelease:03/20/2009
[ 4628.496332] acerhdf: biosproduct:Aspire R3600
[ 4628.496336] acerhdf: no Aspire One hardware found
Maybe with a little help we can get this thing to work!
I changed the .c file and removed the check for the Acer One:
I'm a bit further now:
[ 5769.086792] acerhdf: version: 0.4.0-3 compiledate: Jun 17 2009 20:22:25
[ 5769.086801] acerhdf: biosvendor:Acer
[ 5769.086806] acerhdf: biosversion
01-A0[ 5769.086810] acerhdf: biosrelease:03/20/2009
[ 5769.086814] acerhdf: biosproduct:Aspire R3600
[ 5769.086819] acerhdf: bios version: P01-A0 forced
[ 5769.086823] acerhdf: kernelmode disabled
[ 5769.086827] acerhdf: for more information read:
[ 5769.086831] acerhdf: http://piie.net/files/acerhdf_README.txt
[ 5769.086870] IP: [<f7de80cb>] acerhdf_init+0xcb/0x218 [acerhdf]
[ 5769.086925] Modules linked in: acerhdf(+) bridge stp bnep lirc_mceusb2 lirc_dev video output input_polldev snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec arc4 ecb snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm ath5k snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq nvidia(P) snd_timer snd_seq_device mac80211 agpgart psmouse led_class snd pcspkr serio_raw shpchp soundcore cfg80211 snd_page_alloc forcedeth isofs fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat squashfs unionfs usb_storage usbhid nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc asix usbnet mii
[ 5769.087059] EIP is at acerhdf_init+0xcb/0x218 [acerhdf]
[ 5769.087188] [<f7de8000>] ? acerhdf_init+0x0/0x218 [acerhdf]
[ 5769.087532] EIP: [<f7de80cb>] acerhdf_init+0xcb/0x218 [acerhdf] SS:ESP 0068:f0c6de00
- Hannes The Hun - 2009-06-17
JUICESIX90 Wrote:i'm missing something very obvious here. I just need someone to tell me what that is.
when you have XBMC live installed, you have ubuntu. make yourself familiar with package installation via the terminal, or do yourself a favor and go the XBMCbuntu route. the how-to is good, and this way you'll learn a lot of the underlying linux system which will help you immensely when you encounter problems or want to do advanced configuration.
- JUICESIX90 - 2009-06-20
Hannes The Hun Wrote:when you have XBMC live installed, you have ubuntu. make yourself familiar with package installation via the terminal, or do yourself a favor and go the XBMCbuntu route. the how-to is good, and this way you'll learn a lot of the underlying linux system which will help you immensely when you encounter problems or want to do advanced configuration.
On your advice I had a look at the 'how-to' guide and I've managed to get wireless tools installed, here's what I've done so far...
1) Went to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
2) From the command line typed: 1) sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
3) Typed ispci: reveals my wireless is using a Atheros chipset
4) Typed iwconfig: got the following back...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 0 Signal level: 0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Am I right in thinking it has recognised my wireless card...or, not?
On the plus side I've got further than I had before.
I'm going to keep going on this but if anyone has any advice i'd appreciate it, thanks.
- erhnam - 2009-06-20
JUICESIX90 Wrote:On your advice I had a look at the 'how-to' guide and I've managed to get wireless tools installed, here's what I've done so far...
1) Went to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
2) From the command line typed: 1) sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
3) Typed ispci: reveals my wireless is using a Atheros chipset
4) Typed iwconfig: got the following back...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 0 Signal level: 0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Am I right in thinking it has recognised my wireless card...or, not?
On the plus side I've got further than I had before.
I'm going to keep going on this but if anyone has any advice i'd appreciate it, thanks.
I have wireless working but I needed to upgrade to 2.6.30:
Code:
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-source-2.6.30_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux*.dep
sudo rebootWifi has Tx-Power=20 dBm
Code:
(T: XBMCLive)xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.After this you should be able to use your wifi within XBMC. Point to wlan0 for this!
or do:
Code:
iwlist wlan0 scanning
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managedCode:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:B3:AD:CB:DE
Channel:7
Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
Quality=41/70 Signal level=-69 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"AirPort Extreme"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000001f80452180
Extra: Last beacon: 6860ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000F416972506F72742045787472656D65
IE: Unknown: 010882848B0C12961824Code:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "AirPort Extreme"etc, see this site for more info: http://wme.cs.kent.edu/kkaraden/mobile_server/
- JUICESIX90 - 2009-06-20
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- JUICESIX90 - 2009-06-20
Still no joy...
Downloaded & installed everything listed (how do you check that?) there were no errors anyway. Rebooted, went back into terminal after reboot, typed iwconfig things have changed a little (juice is the essid of my wireless router)
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"juice"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 0 Signal level: 0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Nether of these commands work:
iwlist wlan0 scanning
no scan results
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
Error for wireless request "set mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan ; No such device
Incedently I can get Tx-Power=20 dBm if I type sudo ifconfig wlan0 up but I have to do that after each reboot.
- erhnam - 2009-06-21
JUICESIX90 Wrote:...but I have to do that after each reboot.
Then you should add that line to your local (/etc/init.d/),
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RcLocalHowto
so; sudo nano /etc/init.d/local , add the following two lines:
#!/bin/sh
ifconfig wlan0 up
save the file,
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/local
sudo update-rc.d local defaults 80
reboot.
For checking if you have the latest kernel version type; uname -a
- JUICESIX90 - 2009-06-21
erhnam Wrote:Then you should add that line to your local (/etc/init.d/),
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RcLocalHowto
so; sudo nano /etc/init.d/local , add the following two lines:
#!/bin/sh
ifconfig wlan0 up
save the file,
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/local
sudo update-rc.d local defaults 80
reboot.
For checking if you have the latest kernel version type; uname -a
That worked, Tx-Power=20 dBm on reboot now. (the rest is as posted, it's lost the essid now though)
Interestingly when I typed uname -a it shows Linux XBMCLive 2.6.28-11
After installing those files shouldn't it say 2.6.30?
- erhnam - 2009-06-21
JUICESIX90 Wrote:That worked, Tx-Power=20 dBm on reboot now. (the rest is as posted, it's lost the essid now though)
Interestingly when I typed uname -a it shows Linux XBMCLive 2.6.28-11
After installing those files shouldn't it say 2.6.30?
If it says 2.6.28-11 you're still on the old kernel version. I should leave it that way if your wifi works now.
- Hannes The Hun - 2009-06-21
the main problem is that he's using XBMC live, so installing a new kernel wouldn't be an advisable option... we already told him 1 or 2 pages ago to use the XBMCbuntu installation guide.