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2008-12-26, 11:46
(This post was last modified: 2008-12-26, 16:30 by olympia.)
Did anybody make "auto refresh rate adjust" work with this board?
It is not working for me, but seems a driver and/ or xorg.conf issue.
By default, I don't have 1920x1080 24Hz at all in XBMC/apperance/screen settings.
If I add "dynamictwinview" "false" to xorg.conf, than I have all the settings from EDID, so like 1920x1080 24Hz, but if I choose this mode, than it seems still stucked at 50Hz.
Actually, it is the same with all other refresh rate. Seems I cannot switch to any other refresh rate, it is always stay at the default...
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Honestly I've not mucked with refresh rates at all and the x setup file for my install was pretty bare. I will try to take a look at it today. Last I did to it was change it from 720P to 1080 which made for some overscan but I didn't save the changes anywhere so on next reboot it will likely revert. X sure is a PITA! lol
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2008-12-28, 15:35
(This post was last modified: 2008-12-28, 15:38 by olympia.)
BLKMGK,
In the meantime, I solved the refresh rate issue with inserting modelines into xorg.conf. Actually I was heavily upgraded my XBMCLive (upgrade nvidia driver, alsa, compile recent XBMC version on it from source), and almost everything works (If anyone intersted I make a step-by-step guide for all of this).
MP3s are playing fine via SPDIF, I might try on hdmi as well, but for my final setup I need SPDIF now.
What is very intersting, that with an E7300 I can play killa sample with stock speed without dropping frames (only 13 in the beggining). I have no clue, why not OK for you without overclocking it.
I have two things which is not yet complete:
1. I was not able to change the default usplash theme in XBMCLive
2. resume was standby is not working at all. Did you tried if it works for you?
(I get "i8042 kbd 000:06: activation failed" message and everything hangs)
Oh, yes, one more thing: Did you ever experienced rebooting issues with your MB? Or just hanging after exiting from BIOS?
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I'll post this here too, although I started a separate thread just in case it's a problem not unique to this motherboard...
Has anyone got the temperatures displaying in the System Info screens? I only see question marks "?" instead of temperatures in both my CPU temp and my GPU temp. I'd love to see what they actually are.
Also, i'd be curious to hear what others see as CPU activity when viewing the CPU screen. On mine, CPU0 runs at 0.5%, and CPU1 at 95%. Seems rather unbalanced, and rather high on CPU1 when it's just sitting there?
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Partial: Logitech DiNovo Mini needs 'sudo rmmod usbhid;sudo modprobe usbhid' after boot to make cursor work
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2008-12-29, 04:26
(This post was last modified: 2008-12-29, 08:11 by BLKMGK.)
I too see question marks for temps on both my systems. CPU usage however is balanced on all of my systems, I'm pretty puzzled by all the folks seeing weird CPU usage...
Edit: No my machine isn't hanging or anything - do make sure you have the latest BIOS update though as I had to update mine out of the box. I have not tried to standby the box, I do not think the IRDA receiver would still get power to allow it to easily resume and I am running torrents on the box 24X7 anyway.
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Another tidbit for anyone looking to set up this board... I just tried the Killa sample, and it ran perfectly clean. 1 dropped frame at the beginning (I think that's because this is cropped out of a section of the Planet Earth video) but after that no problems. Both CPU's were hovering between 50-60% during playback. I'm very impressed.
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Working: 1080p, hdmi audio
Partial: Logitech DiNovo Mini needs 'sudo rmmod usbhid;sudo modprobe usbhid' after boot to make cursor work
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Snowflake: that is good to know. I know now what my HTPC will be based on =)