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

thescorp · 2009-07-02 08:15

Haggy Wrote:Don't boot, just suspend/resume

I have a weird problem, well "problem anyway, when taking it out of suspend. It somehow kills X, so I have to start that again. Which is not really a big issue since I have the DiNovo Mini, but a tad annoying in the long run ^^

hexland · 2009-07-02 08:38

thescorp Wrote:I have a weird problem, well "problem anyway, when taking it out of suspend. It somehow kills X, so I have to start that again. Which is not really a big issue since I have the DiNovo Mini, but a tad annoying in the long run ^^

Yup, same here... Suspend leaves a blank screen on resume, and hibernate leaves an X shaped cursor in the center of the screen that won't go away.

Pete_London · 2009-07-02 08:56

Had dinner with friends last night and am a hungover little puppy this morning... I'll take in some suggestions and update tonight.

What SFTP client do all you Windows users use? I don't want to make this Mac specific, but it's all I've got to play with here since I commandeered my wife's laptop as a Linux test bed.

Pete

thescorp · 2009-07-02 09:05

hexland Wrote:Yup, same here... Suspend leaves a blank screen on resume, and hibernate leaves an X shaped cursor in the center of the screen that won't go away.

Well, I get the terminal with X being dead.

As far as the X shaped cursor when Hibernating, I have an easy fix for that since I have the DiNovo Mini. Flick the mousepointer active, and then click if off again and voila gone.

There is however a fix for getting that cursor removed somewhere on these forums that you can use to fix it. I tried to find it, but cant remember where I saw it ^^

Ill update if i find it.

Edit: Found it: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=3...post339641

poserdonut · 2009-07-02 09:24

Haggy Wrote:Don't boot, just suspend/resume

I kill the power for all my units during night and when I'm not home. But sure, during the time I'm home and not using it I will suspend/hibernate it.

Haggy · 2009-07-02 09:24

As for the stuck x cursor - this can be fixed by disabling the hardware cursor (have a look here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=348252&postcount=2).

X being dead after resume points to some driver issue. Can you have a look at your Xorg.0.log or dmesg after resume. You may pastebin it and show it here.

poserdonut · 2009-07-02 10:16

Pete_London Wrote:Had dinner with friends last night and am a hungover little puppy this morning... I'll take in some suggestions and update tonight.

What SFTP client do all you Windows users use? I don't want to make this Mac specific, but it's all I've got to play with here since I commandeered my wife's laptop as a Linux test bed.

Pete

I use WinSCP to transfer files.

mulder77de · 2009-07-02 11:16

I for myself do it like adding an "exit" after the xbmc call. So, if XBMC crashes, the user get logged out and automatically logged in again, so restarting XBMC.

You can even create a startup-script which is run during resume activity, which kills all running XBMC apps (should be one only), so that XBMC gets restarted by default.

Works great for me!

Hannes The Hun · 2009-07-02 11:55

maybe we should also integrate the BIOS settings from here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=53888

ATM I'm playing around with all the "smoothvideo" stuff and some useful xorg parameters, will post some additional settings when I'm done

pat1975 · 2009-07-02 13:08

@hannes the hun: This is my xorg.conf (thx to haggy) which is running very good on my Zotac ION.
A you can see, I have a Sony LCD TV-set (like haggy :-) )
Perhaps you have to edit these modelines to match your TV.

Code:

root@htpc01:~# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"

  Identifier  "Device0"

  Driver      "nvidia"

  VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

  Identifier  "Screen0"

  Device      "Device0"

  Monitor     "Monitor0"

  # Fixes issue with modesetting on xbmc

  Option      "ExactModeTimingsDVI"       "True"

  Option      "UseEDIDFreqs"              "False"

  Option      "ModeValidation"            "NoEdidModes, NoMaxPClkCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, AllowNon60HzDFPModes"

  # Fixes tearing/smoothvideo issues

  Option      "DynamicTwinView"           "False" # disable or you'll get tearing

  Option      "TripleBuffer"              "0" # disable or xbmc will segfault with smoothvideo

  # Misc

  Option      "NoLogo"                    "True"

  Option      "HWcursor"                  "Off"

  DefaultDepth  24

  SubSection "Display"

    Depth       24

    Modes     "1920x1080@50p" "1920x1080@60p" "1920x1080@24p" "1920x1080@59.94i" "1920x1080@59.94p" "1920x1080@60i"

  EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

  # Sony Bravia KDL-40W4000/KDL-40E4000

  Identifier  "Monitor0"

  HorizSync   14.0 - 70.0

  VertRefresh 24.0 - 62.0

  Modeline    "1920x1080@24p"     74.230 1920 2560 2604 2752 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync

  Modeline    "1920x1080@50p"    148.500 1920 2448 2492 2640 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync

  Modeline    "1920x1080@59.94i"  74.176 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125 +hsync +vsync Interlace

  Modeline    "1920x1080@59.94p" 148.352 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125 +hsync +vsync

  Modeline    "1920x1080@60i"      74.25 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125 +hsync +vsync Interlace

  Modeline    "1920x1080@60p"    148.500 1920 2008 2056 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

  # fixes tearing with vdpau/vsync

  Option      "Composite"           "Disable"

EndSection

Patrick

thescorp Junior Member Posts: 18 Joined: Jun 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-07-02 08:15 Post: #11 Haggy Wrote:Don't boot, just suspend/resume I have a weird problem, well "problem anyway, when taking it out of suspend. It somehow kills X, so I have to start that again. Which is not really a big issue since I have the DiNovo Mini, but a tad annoying in the long run ^^
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Pete_London Senior Member Posts: 196 Joined: May 2009 Reputation: 1	2009-07-02 08:56 Post: #13 Had dinner with friends last night and am a hungover little puppy this morning... I'll take in some suggestions and update tonight. What SFTP client do all you Windows users use? I don't want to make this Mac specific, but it's all I've got to play with here since I commandeered my wife's laptop as a Linux test bed. Pete
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poserdonut Senior Member Posts: 100 Joined: Jun 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-07-02 09:24 Post: #15 Haggy Wrote:Don't boot, just suspend/resume I kill the power for all my units during night and when I'm not home. But sure, during the time I'm home and not using it I will suspend/hibernate it.
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mulder77de Junior Member Posts: 39 Joined: Jun 2008 Reputation: 0	2009-07-02 11:16 Post: #18 I for myself do it like adding an "exit" after the xbmc call. So, if XBMC crashes, the user get logged out and automatically logged in again, so restarting XBMC. You can even create a startup-script which is run during resume activity, which kills all running XBMC apps (should be one only), so that XBMC gets restarted by default. Works great for me!
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Hannes The Hun Posting Freak Posts: 1,208 Joined: May 2009 Reputation: 3	2009-07-02 11:55 Post: #19 maybe we should also integrate the BIOS settings from here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=53888 ATM I'm playing around with all the "smoothvideo" stuff and some useful xorg parameters, will post some additional settings when I'm done
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