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I thought the Live CD should run out of the box (dharma 10.1) with this baby.
Well on my new shuttle it doesn't. I have no network support on cable and wlan. Used the install feature of the live cd.
I may have to add some drivers. Which ones?
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By the way, the ubuntu 10.4 activates wlan, but won't find ethernet either.
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Is there any help or how to install stuff, that doesn't refer to the old XS35 hardware?
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Thank you for the help. But thats not the point.
The new shuttle board has a JMicron gigabit ethernet, which isn't recognized. I don't even know if the 10.04 kernel has a support for it. 10.04 doesn't show any lan or wlan in ifconfig cause it doesn't recognize the wlan either. I believe the hardware on the shuttle xs35gtv2 is too new. So ifconfig shows loopback only.
ubuntu 11.04 regognizes the wlan, but not the lan. Unfortunately for 11.04 the xbmc is not ported yet so you have to let the source use the maverick unstable one. This may not work.
So I either try to get the Jmicron Gigabit work in the dharma live environment, but I dont know how, or I give a try to the unstable xbmc on 11.04 (resp. for 10.10), which seems to work fine on some ion2 (zotac) boards, maybe it works aswell on the shuttle.
So you could really help me if you tell me how to activate lan and wlan on 10.04 ubuntu.
Here is what lspci tells me:
JMC250 Jmicron Gigabit Ethernet and
Realtek RTL8180CE WLAN
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The JMicron stuff installed fine now, thanks. I didn't have to remove the network manager.
I first tried the 11.04 ubuntu and installed the maverick XBMC. The platform worked fine, but streaming the films over the net (cifs/smb shares on a samba) didn't work.
So I will now retry now using 10.04 ubuntu. Anyway, the new shuttle is a fine piece of hardware. I installed an ocz drive, and it is amazingly fast. From the Ubuntu boot-logo to the loaded gnome desktop in 11 seconds. And absolutely noiseless.
I come back to you when I have the xbmc work.
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I don't use ubuntu anymore, sound troubles.
And on debian I get by far the best playback of movies etc. plus sound over hdmi is easy. I still have to add the clicks and wooshes though (navigation sounds) but I don't miss them so it will be a while.
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bas.t
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2011-06-06, 12:52
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-06, 13:21 by bas.t.)
The current debian (stable) does not support trim, as it comes with a 2.6.32 kernel
BUT it is very easy to make it do so, as opposed to ubuntu. It takes just some time.
Linux is a must-have for xbmc, windows has a very big footprint. Well, ubuntu is starting a big footprint too. So if you are running xbmc on a monster-giga-flops machine with windows, you should be fine.
Tried openelec, does not satisfy my needs. Plus the quality of playback movies etc is imho still better in debian.
This is probably because I can compile xbmc myself in debian. When I install the suplied packages there is no significant difference between debian, openelec and ubuntu.
This being said, there is indeed a significant difference between compiling on ubuntu and compiling on debian. The latter wins by far.
I have got a linux (ubuntu server 10.04) backend, running tvheadend with 5 dvb-c tuners, a smargo smartreader and newcs to communicate between the smartreader and tvheadend to decode the coded channels.
I live in the Netherlands and for tv broadcasting the cable providers deliver the best quality. So I did not play around with satelite setups.
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I've almost managed to make xbmc work on xs35gtv2.
The only issue i have now is slow start of video playback (shows "working..." message for serverla minutes but moving back and forward while playback is nit delaied at all and no buffering pauses). It looks like networking issue. I'm using smb over wifi to access NAS. Previousely I've used sony vaio vgn-z11 laptop with ubuntu 10.4 to host xbmc and it was much better when accessing NAS over smb/wifi.
Here is notes , I was making during configuring the box:
1. Install XBMC-live
2. Build and install wifi drivers
download
driver for rtl8192CE from relatec (there are versions for different kernels)
tar -xvzf rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0006.0321.2011.tar.gz
cp -r rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0006.0321.2011 /usr/local/src/
ls /usr/local/src/rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0006.0321.2011
make
make install
reboot
2a. Wired networking
cd /lib/modules/2.6.32-26-generic/kernel/drivers/net/
sudo modprobe jme
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
3. configure wifi
Edit /etc/network/interfaces and add the following:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid “wlan network name”
wpa-psk “wlan key”
4. Install packets
vim mc ssh autofs
5. Update key mappings for RC (GotView)
/usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps/keyboard.xml
Add following before </keyboard></global>
<one mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ContextMenu</one>
<two mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ActivateWindow(videolibrary,tvshowtitles)</two>
<three mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ActivateWindow(musiclibrary,artists)</three>
<four mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ActivateWindow(pictures)</four>
<five mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ActivateWindow(videolibrary,movietitles)</five>
<home mod="ctrl,alt,shift">XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)</home>
<r mod="ctrl">Queue</r>
<h mod="ctrl,alt,shift">Info</h>
<b mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ActivateWindow(MusicOSD)</b>
<f mod="ctrl,alt,shift">ActivateWindow(VisualisationPresetList)</f>
<f4 mod="alt">Close</f4>
<s mod="ctrl">Stop</s> <!-- Stop -->
<r mod="ctrl">ActivateWindow(favourites)</r>
restart xbmc:
sudo service xbmc-live stop
sudo service xbmc-live start
6. Fix navigation sounds over hdmi
execute "aplay -l" and take note of the card # and device # of your HDMI playback device.
Then create a file ~/.asoundrc and put the following in there:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
device 3
}
Obviously with the correct card and device numbers for your configuration.
7. Change xbmc settings
Digital sound, for all output HDMI, no AC (not supported by TV)
Input device sends keyboard keys (for gotview RC)
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I have to correct myself with the LAN drivers.
LAN is not a problem if the switch is a 10/100, it is a problem though if the switch is a gigabit switch.
In this case you get no link at all.
If you download the latest set of JME250 drivers from the JMICRON website and disassemble the JME, you see that there is a bug query in the code which is TRUE during access.
Now the code seems to enter specific register values if the bug is present,
but this won't cause my lan card to go online using 1000BaseTX-FD.
mii-tool doesn't recogize 1000BaseTX-FD. I'm stuck.
Anyone got a solution for this?