[pletopia]

i'm about to setup a few new Zotac MAG box's and was wondering what the pro's and cons are to using each of the different setup methods i listed in the thread title.

for the minimal setup, i was planning on following this guide: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu

Also a few more questions for people who might know better ..

A couple of the box's will be using bluetooth keyboards (Apple Wireless Keyboard w/ Cirago Bluetooth BTA3210 Adapter)

Looking on this forum and googling, it seems that without a full blown ubuntu install you can't properly pair keyboards .. is this true ??

Another box will be using a Wireless Xbox 360 Controller, i was able to find darwin's thread with the specially written driver so it seems i won't need a full blown ubuntu for that .. correct ?

also, last question .. i've read some really bad reviews of Karmic Koala, to the point that people are saying to stick with jaunty .. what do you guys think ??

[jason32835]

I'm running Karmic Minimal with XBMC RC1, and I would recommend giving it a try. This is the guide I use: http://www.springydevelopment.co.uk/2009...mic-koala/


I would say the benefits of this method over the others is light weight, easier to upgrade and way more fun..

[edz2k9]

Evening all

I've set up my system with XBMC and mythtv frontend on a revo (the myth back end is on a regular pc tower in the same av cupboard).

Ubuntu karmic (full) boots up and launches XBMC immediately, pressing live tv brings up mythtv front end pressing it again closes myth and opens xbmc and so on. besides this I can remote desktop into my other windows boxes and browse in firefox. From the internal HDD (160GB not SDD) it all boots in ~30seconds.

Pretty happy with this solution

Edz

[pashdown]

I have a pair of Zotac 330 IONs and I'm very happy with them. You can in fact pair Bluetooth devices to them with a XBMCbuntu install. However, what I haven't figured out is how to make the pairing permanent. I've asked on the Ubuntu forums with no response, so if someone figures out how to do it via console without a full desktop install on Ubuntu 9.10, please let me know.

Old instructions reference /etc/default/bluetooth for permanent pairing. This file doesn't exist under Karmic, nor can I find any documentation as to where it has gone or been replaced by. Go go Ubuntu!

[pletopia]

so i got it up and running .. on two different machines .. one from minimal and the other from a full blown ubuntu install

quick question i have is .. its defaulting to 1920x1080 @ 50Hz on both setups.. how do i get it to 60Hz .. when i scroll go into settings and try to adjust the res to 60Hz, it bumps down my res to 1440x900

i know the tv supports 1920x1080@60 since i've been running it that res on my windows box and the ion should support it also

[Kadafi69]

Ubuntu karmic (full) boots up and launches XBMC immediately, pressing live tv brings up mythtv front end pressing it again closes myth and opens xbmc and so on.

is this done with a menu item on xbmc? or is it just a lirc edit for the live button to run mythtv?

either way can you let me know the details as this is what I want to achieve.

Thanks

[jason32835]

so i got it up and running .. on two different machines .. one from minimal and the other from a full blown ubuntu install

quick question i have is .. its defaulting to 1920x1080 @ 50Hz on both setups.. how do i get it to 60Hz .. when i scroll go into settings and try to adjust the res to 60Hz, it bumps down my res to 1440x900

i know the tv supports 1920x1080@60 since i've been running it that res on my windows box and the ion should support it also

You may need to run through this guide to get your resolution set up: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=54685

Once you have a proper xorg.conf, save it away like gold. In fact I do a full image of my system each time I get to a happy place.

[pletopia]

You may need to run through this guide to get your resolution set up: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=54685

Once you have a proper xorg.conf, save it away like gold. In fact I do a full image of my system each time I get to a happy place.

thx for that link .. last night before i past out i found this link http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64412 and just did what it said in the first post and it worked but when i started reading more of the thread it said that that "hack" wasn't the best method to do .. anyway, i'll look into this one and see whats up

quick question .. how can i do a "full system image" so that i quickly and easily setup my other box's instead of having to manually install and configure each one ??

[jason32835]

thx for that link .. last night before i past out i found this link http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64412 and just did what it said in the first post and it worked but when i started reading more of the thread it said that that "hack" wasn't the best method to do .. anyway, i'll look into this one and see whats up

quick question .. how can i do a "full system image" so that i quickly and easily setup my other box's instead of having to manually install and configure each one ??

I use partimage to make an image of my system partition at regular intervals. If you have identical hardware then this will work for what you want to do. http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page