[LINUX] HOW-TO make a minimal install of Ubuntu on Acer Revo ION in under 25 minutes

if anybody is having signal strength issues please run

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty wicd

this appears to increase the wifi signal strength and reliabilty.

wicd and wicd-client is a wifi management utility that allows the system to reconnect if it drops.

Hope this helps some poor sole as i had this issue.

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Is there a reason to use ubuntu and not windows 7? I am trying to make a box for my gf that does 1080p with no external player in windows (directly in xbmc) and wanted to know if this would work with windows 7 instead? And you're not using an external player in linux right?

Win7 would choke on 1080P without hardware decode acceleration. That's not available on Windows XBMC, yet. You'd need an external player that can utilize DXVA under windows to get good 1080P playback. On linux with VDPAU which offloads decode to the GPU and makes 1080P playback possible on lower end hardware with a compatible nVidia chipse.

In this 17 page thread is there any explanation as to why we would do this and NOT do an install from XBMC Live CD? Is this faster/better in some way?

Updating and adding things are a little easier this way.

You need to add the package x11-util somewhere along the way, or the system won't boot into XBMC.

Hi All, first post! Been reading through all the pages and can't see anyone else with the same problem... everything was going swimmingly until installing XBMC:

xbmc@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 9.11~alpha1-jaunty1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3-hd (= 9.11~alpha1-jaunty1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 9.11~alpha1-jaunty1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
xbmc@ubuntu:~$

Any ideas, i've followed everything to the letter, and checked/doublechecked everything..

Help!

J

ok, i managed to get past that by not using the SVN's.

Everything else seems to have worked fine, no errors, so I did a reboot and then no XMBC :-( Just command prompt again. So i tried sudo nvidia-xconfig, reboot, still nothing... anyone else had this? Help, I feel i'm sooo close now!!!

musti Wrote:Everything else seems to have worked fine, no errors, so I did a reboot and then no XBMC :-( Just command prompt again. So i tried sudo nvidia-xconfig, reboot, still nothing... anyone else had this? Help, I feel i'm sooo close now!!!

Same thing happening to me, i dont know where i went wrong, anyone? solution?

I managed to get it started with


but i dont know how to make it permanent