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2011-01-18, 19:56
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-24, 23:27 by denizen.)
I've been playing around with my Jetway Mini-Top for several days now and decided to setup several partitions to try out different OS's with it. I have a win7 partition, linux mint partition,and a ubuntu mini (maverick) partition.
I have followed the 'step by step' (josh4trunks/speed) on the maverick mini partition, but it does not seem to work for me. It just brings me back to the command line on reboot. I've got several questions regarding the setup.
1) I noted that prior to setup, speed had recommended downloading both the ubuntu mini iso AND the nvidia driver. Am I wrong in thinking that the step by step automatically installs the latest nvidia driver?
2) Currently the latest nvidia driver (from 12/10) seems to be installed on my system...does the step by step specifically rely on the older driver that was mentioned at the start of the step by step (and could this be the reason that my install failed..)?
3) Is there anything different I would need to change in the step by step specifically because I would like to install it on a separate partition? I was hoping that when I chose to boot from the maverick mini partition, XBMC would start and all would be good.
A puzzling thing I noted when performing the step by step was that when I was trying to change the alsamixer settings, the only available output shown was spdif. Wondering if this has to with the driver questions above.
Sorry for the long winded questions...Thanks for any help that is offered.
Edit: Just answering some of my own questions after some research and tinkering (btw, thanks davemex and fnc1 for your replies below):
1) The step by step 'script' does indeed install the latest nvidia drivers, so a separate download of the driver file and its execution is not necessary.
2) The ability to run XBMC on the Jetway does not specifically rely on the older driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12) to run and it works fine with the latest drivers.
3) The 'script'/step by step will work fine when installed on a separate partition. Like many others, the snafu for me occurred during installation of maverick mini on the section when installing grub to the system. The default drive chosen on this section is /dev/hda which in most cases is the USB Drive. As mentioned elsewhere, choose 'no' when it asks, and on the next screen, type in the drive and partition which you are installing XBMC on.
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I, too, have been struggling to get xbmc running with the maverick mini iso. After install/reboot I get "Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode." Once I escape out of that (none of the 5 options to "fix" this problem does anything) and get back to the command line, I am able to get to the desktop with the "startx" command.
If I open a terminal window from gdm and type 'xbmc' the app launches and all is good.
The only issue is the gray bar at the top of the screen which I assume is there because I launched xbmc from within a terminal window, right?
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fnc1
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dont forget you have to stop x before you can install the nvidia driver...
sudo stop xbmc-live
that should do it...
but try my scripts on the previous page if your really having issues...
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2011-01-21, 06:01
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-21, 08:40 by kratos.)
I kinda feel like an idiot, but I'm trying to follow the Josh4trunks/Speedway installation instructions, but Ubuntu keeps installing itself on the flash drive instead of the internal SSD. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I'm using the new Jetway Mini-top.
Edit: Everything working now...now to change some skins and change the mappings on the MCE remote....anyone know where skins are stored?
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R u using a minimal install?
If so when you are on the partitioning part do manual partitioning.
Delete every partition in your harddrive. (Not your usb drive!)
Create a partition (ext4, /) on your harddrive.
(optional) Create a swap (I actually don't recommend it)
(optional) Create a /home partition (don't recommend unless you know why)
So basically I recommend one partition only using the entire harddrive
ext4, and mount point /
It will warn you about not having a swap, but as long as you have 1GB of ram just ignore it.
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Hi,
Strange phenomena on My zbox hd-id40, Audio settings affects Video playback frame rate.
I have Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 server as the base installation, added Nvidia 260 as per posts in this thread. Then I copy&pasted the "part1.sh2 and "part2.sh2 scripts and ran them.
I added lirc and my HP MCE remote works fine. I have 1080p playback if I do NOT use Nvida HDMI audio.... If I select "hdmi" or "Nvidia HDMI" device in XBMC I get extremely low frame rate om 1080p.... Weird.
What to do ? Besides reverting to a Win7 installation....
/A