[LINUX] HOW-TO achieve XBMC nirvana with an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 and Ubuntu

headcase Wrote:For me, fix was to just use plughw:0,3.

Not sure how different xbmc-live is compared to xbmc on top of full blown ubuntu ... but plughw:0,3 was the only thing I needed to follow in the massive 'how to get multichannel audio' thread to get mine working on AR1600 + xbmc-live + 190 series drivers.

Original post updated to reflect your experience as well.

Hey all, I've got a fresh 9.04 Ubuntu w/ 9.11 XBMC up and running w/ALSA an no pulse. It works BEAUTIFULLY and I wanted to thank EVERYONE in this thread for making it go smoothly.

I also backed it up with partimage and gzip resulting in a 1.22 gb file (trying 7zip with mx=9 as we speak).

I'd like to put it out there as a torrent so anyone who wants can just rock and roll without having to worry about it.

Is there any good way to do so with out taking it in the ass on bandwidth charges?

Thanks again for all the hard work and tips!

thermite451 Wrote:Hey all, I've got a fresh 9.04 Ubuntu w/ 9.11 XBMC up and running w/ALSA an no pulse. It works BEAUTIFULLY and I wanted to thank EVERYONE in this thread for making it go smoothly.

I also backed it up with partimage and gzip resulting in a 1.22 gb file (trying 7zip with mx=9 as we speak).

I'd like to put it out there as a torrent so anyone who wants can just rock and roll without having to worry about it.

Is there any good way to do so with out taking it in the ass on bandwidth charges?

Thanks again for all the hard work and tips!

Which version of the Nvidia drivers did you use?

Also, for the upload, try parking it on something like Megaupload or Rapidshare. Both limit the amount that can be downloaded per day, but if you've got it down to ~1GB, that'd be 20 downloads / day on Megaupload.

I'm sure others have different suggestions (hopefully better ones), but you can start with something like that.

Thanks for offering to post. I'm sure it'll save others lots of time in the future.

I used the 185.18.14 drivers.

I'll see about uploading it from the office tomorrow (might as well use the fios)

Couldn't get it under 1.22gb, but that's still not bad

Agreed on doing it from the office... as far as those two services go, I just realized that at a gig, it's probably too big for Megaupload, so my advice there probably isn't very helpful. Let us know if you find something else. If you don't find a better option to putting it up as a torrent, I'll download it as well and keep it up and seeding for a while to see if anyone is interested.

myrison Wrote:Agreed on doing it from the office... as far as those two services go, I just realized that at a gig, it's probably too big for Megaupload, so my advice there probably isn't very helpful. Let us know if you find something else. If you don't find a better option to putting it up as a torrent, I'll download it as well and keep it up and seeding for a while to see if anyone is interested.

+1

I just picked up a Revo 1600, and naturally XBMC is doing less than stellar out of the box. I am also fairly Linux stupid, so a prepack would be awesome. I will do whatever possible to assist with uploading / seeding. I have a very strong upload from my provider (I pay additional for "boost" service and do not have any data cap).

Please let me know what I can do to assist.

ARGHHH

Sorry for the delay. Lost the mother-***** image in an HD crash.

Rebuilding a fresh one this morning, and I'll post an image to S3 this afternoon

Here's a partimage dump with XBMC autostarted

http://publicdump.s3.amazonaws.com/Revo_...00.torrent

No pulseaudio / alsa with patch as referenced earlier / lirc for mce remotes / openssh with "xbmc" / "xbmc!" as a sudoer.

CHANGE that last one!!!

Do whatever else you'd like.

It's a torrent seeding from S3 so it should have ridiculous through put. But it's costing me about $.25 every time S3 is the only seed.

Be nice, seed please

Thanks, downloading now, though "ridiculous throughput" appears to be .6 Mbps (point 6, not 6) on a 24 Mbps line. Oh well, sooner or later I'll have it as well and add another seed to the list.

This is awesome. Thanks to both of you! Hopefully this will fix my issue with Ubuntu booting. I will keep this seeded for quite a while with a pretty decent UL.