Hannes The Hun Wrote:a little too expensive, that was also my first thought

but it's nice that they throw in a remote, and in comparison to first generation ion systems you get gigabit and wlan N

now we just need to know how silent the unit really is and when the price drops to 199,-

speed32219 Wrote:Update:

It is causing me some problems, alsa-utils just drops out when setting up (I think upower and or policykit-1) and requires a fresh install.

Hardware:
Jetway Mini-TOP HBJC600C99-52W-BW - New Ion 2 ###GEforce 218
Intel Atom 525 dual core 1.8Ghz (June 2010 release)
1 GB Notebook (200 pin) PC-6400 Rendition RAM (Cruical)
WD Scorpio Blue 250GB 2.5" drive
1 USB 4GB Patriot disk as backup (Clonezilla)
SW
10.10 Mav.
1.0.23 alsa with current patches
260.19.12 Nvidia

The minute I installed upower and policykit-1, I lose alsa-utils functions and installed drivers it seems. (Alsamixer, aplay, etc.)

Here are some snapshots of my current situation after installing the pkgs. above.
$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...

$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.

UPDATE: Fixed it, it was in the wiki hiding in the nvidia 2XX section. It seems that the ION2 is a GEforce 218 card, kinda good to know. I was installing alsa from the maverick backports and not removing them when finished. Found that tip on the Nvidia Geforce 2xx wiki.

Maverick minimal cd with only ssh server app enabled during install.

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc-svn/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xbmc xinit x11-xserver-utils

sudo apt-get install nvidia-173-kernel-source nvidia-glx-173 nvidia-settings mesa-utils libvdpau-dev

sudo apt-get install binutils gcc

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf  (CTRL O & ENter to write, CTRL X to exit)
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

#Make sure you left the space above before you write it out
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run    ###DOwnlaod this from NVIDIA Site, then

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run        ##Follow prompts during instll with yes & OK

sudo modprobe nvidia

sudo nvidia-xconfig -s --no-logo --force-generate --output-xconfig=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo reboot

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.35-22-generic alsa-utils  ##Here comes your sound

sudo alsamixer     #### pres M on each of the four selections to UNMUTE,  Excape to Exit

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf    ###Add
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0xfff2    ###ION2 only, others may need to change probe mask to probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2

sudo alsactl store 0

sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-alsa-`uname -r`   ### This was my problem, found it on the GEFORCE 2XX page.

aplay -l   ####sample out below

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]   ######This was my hdmi out#####
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: default [USB PnP Sound Device          ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

sudo nano .asoundrc      #####Now to add your hdmi device  ### CTRL + O + Enter to write, CTRL X to exit

###Card 0 devcie 7 ###2nd line from top
pcm.hdmi07 {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 7
}
pcm.!default hdmi07

###CTL + O + ENter to write, and CTRL + X to exit

### How did I know, well you could try each one of the above card/device combos or follow this to get the eld info.

cd /proc/asound/card0  ##or card1, you are looking for the one that has eld# in the directory

cat eld#0.0

cat eld#1.0  ###When I looked in this file it was the only one with data, look at bottom fo this for card/device info

###example
monitor_present         1
eld_valid               1
monitor_name            ASUS VH236H

connection_type         HDMI   #########
eld_version             [0x2] CEA-861D or below
edid_version            [0x3] CEA-861-B, C or D
manufacture_id          0x6904
product_id              0x23f2
port_id                 0x20000
support_hdcp            0
support_ai              0
audio_sync_delay        0
speakers                [0x1] FL/FR  #######
sad_count               1
sad0_coding_type        [0x1] LPCM   #######
sad0_channels           2
sad0_rates              [0xe0] 44100 48000 88200  #####What happened to 92000?
sad0_bits               [0x20000] 16  #######

cat eld#2.0

cat eld#3.0

Note: eld#0.0 corresonds to device 0,3, #1.0 to device 0,7 #2.0 to device 0,8 and #3.0 to device 0,9

##Below is for connecting hdmi cable to tv that does not support DD or DTS, if it does you can leave everthing to hdmi.
Set AUdio output to Analog in movie audio settings (WHEn watching movie)
Set Audio in system settings to Analog,  aduio output to hdmi and passthrough to HDMI.

Enjoy your HDMI sound.

Thanks to the wiki's and individuals from linux org, ubuntu forums and right here in da house.

dkxbmc Wrote:Any of you guys have been able to map any keyboard or remote to a harmony remote where the built-in IR receiver will accept? So far, the only thing that works is to teach the harmony from the Jetway remote. I called Jetway's tech support, and they told me they are using a generic IR receiver, From what device manager shows in win7, it's from a company called irfmedia. The remote that came with it is pretty darn limited, I would love to be able to map the MCE keyboard commands to my remote and have the darn receiver accept them.