Lenovo Ideacentre Q150

My comment is not specific to this product but general comment on these new players (lenovo) in the block!

For example I bought VOT550 (Rebadged Aopen) and it was a total disaster...Got blue screens in windows 7 after 1/2 hour of playing a SD movie using XBMC and WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER.

The moral of the story....Specs is one thing and the company that builds the product is another beast.....It takes 3 or 4 iteration before the product is usable (just like software).

Today the best bet is HP slimline (it is not compact) but seems have gone thru lots of iterations and hopefully will work!

lafa Wrote:I have one of those, and posted some instructions here.

http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/07/...-q150.html

or here
http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com

Hi Lafa,

How easy/hard to access the hard drive inside box? say, to replace the HD with SSD?

ttd96 Wrote:Hi Lafa,

How easy/hard to access the hard drive inside box? say, to replace the HD with SSD?

not that bad, just remove all screws including the VGA port ones (screw bolts), and then try to open the plastic cover from the back where all controls are.
IT snaps in, so try follow the edge to force it to snap out.

after that you should have direct access to the HD, I didn't remove it, but it looked easy after the cover was off.

I've been trying for 3 days to get the hdmi audio working. In both ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.

I've abandoned 10.10 even though it comes kernel 2.6.35 and alsa 1.0.23 just due to kernel glitches.

In 10.10 I've experienced the audio lala was talking about. it seems to be related to the 1,9 port since only enabling 1,3 1,7 or 1,8 didn't produce any audio for me at least.

I think the no sound issue has to do more with pulseaudio than alsa.

Last night I did a fresh 10.04 install and upgraded alsa to 1.0.23 and attempted some of the alsa and pulse audio tweaking.

aplay and speaker-test seem to think it works.

I tried the probemask for alsa and the pulseaudio default sink config and card set neither worked.

I was wondering if anybody has tried the ubuntu x-swat drivers yet?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t...ode=linear

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current


Threads I'm following regarding this.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t...ode=linear
http://forum.xbmc.org/archive/index.php/t-73052.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3702/zotac...lse&sort=0

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthr...?t=1461781

tjones Wrote:I've been trying for 3 days to get the hdmi audio working. In both ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.

I've abandoned 10.10 even though it comes kernel 2.6.35 and alsa 1.0.23 just due to kernel glitches.

In 10.10 I've experienced the audio lala was talking about. it seems to be related to the 1,9 port since only enabling 1,3 1,7 or 1,8 didn't produce any audio for me at least.

I think the no sound issue has to do more with pulseaudio than alsa.

Last night I did a fresh 10.04 install and upgraded alsa to 1.0.23 and attempted some of the alsa and pulse audio tweaking.

aplay and speaker-test seem to think it works.

I tried the probemask for alsa and the pulseaudio default sink config and card set neither worked.

I was wondering if anybody has tried the ubuntu x-swat drivers yet?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t...ode=linear

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current


Threads I'm following regarding this.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t...ode=linear
http://forum.xbmc.org/archive/index.php/t-73052.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3702/zotac...lse&sort=0

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthr...?t=1461781

Any luck with the audio yet? I picked one of these up and I'm also having trouble getting HDMI audio working. I have another machine with an Nvidia GT 220 that I can get HDMI audio working on using the various guides on the forums here but using the same procedure on the Q150 has failed so far.

tret Wrote:Any luck with the audio yet? I picked one of these up and I'm also having trouble getting HDMI audio working. I have another machine with an Nvidia GT 220 that I can get HDMI audio working on using the various guides on the forums here but using the same procedure on the Q150 has failed so far.

Yes, check my blog
http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com/

Audio/wireless/hdmi all is working fine on maverick with the latest nvidia drivers.

Well I've gotten the hdmi audio working in ubuntu 10.04 with xbmc stand-alone with perfect audio via plughw:1,9

I'm not exactly sure how but the issue seems to be either alsa 1.0.23 from the alsa project ftp vs ubuntu backport alsa 1.0.23 or nomodeset noplymouth check my last post at.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1552250

Basically a thread of me ranting to myself since nobody over at the ubuntu forums has encountered ion2's.

To enable hdmi audio in xbmc stand alone first check to see if there is any eld data in /proc/asound/card1/eld#*.* then plughw:x,x to the device that has one in custom output device and custom passthrough device. For example in my post I had finally got some eld data for eld#3.0 which corresponds to device 1,9 so I used plughw:1,9.

No probemask was needed. It actually screwed things up.

I'm pretty sure it had something to do with plymouth mucking things up (notice plymouth is disabled in 10.10 alphas atm) or unpatched alsa drivers from the alsa project ftp I'll find out today when I try to install again with the 256.44 nvidia drivers and the ubuntu alsa 1.0.23 backport.

Got audio working again with xbmc stand-alone and ubuntu 10.04 with nvidia 256.44 drivers.

Check the ubuntu forums post.

If you need help setting it up I'll check this post for about one more week.

I'm still considering one of these. It looks like the comments were quite negative out of the gate re: streaming services (Netflix, mlb.tv, hulu). Have those concerns gone away, or is everyone who likes this device just using it to playback media stored locally?

I'd test it for you if I could. But I can't get it stable enough to install some video plugins or try out a 1080p tv.

Right now with xbmc installed off the svn ppa repo it's crashing about every 5-10 minutes with local media off a D-Link 323 NAS through a gigabit router at 720p. My torture test is a 42GB .m2ts file.

The crash is happening regardless of the medial type/file.

I'm new to xbmc but from the crash logs it's xbmc crashing and not xorg.

The only warning/error in the xbmc log I'm seeing is the CDVDplayer audio sync stuff with either analog or digital audio which is odd from the googles I've done.

I'm waiting for the official xbmc ppa to get back online and trying that version before posting logs or asking for help.