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LinuxMCE 1004 DVD Installer

Snapshot: LMCE-1004-20120701130826149.iso

Hardware

• MacMini 2010 - Model 4,1
  • Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.66GHz
  • 8GB RAM
  • S/PDIF audio
• Teufel Concept E 300 "5.1-Set"
• DVB-S Device: TT-Connect S2 3650CI
• Remote: WII Mote Plus
• External HDD (2x 2TB): ICY BOX
• iPad2
• iPhone 3GS
• Cups Printer: Canon IP5300

Common hints

Some notes

• after installation AVWizard was skipped for some reason, i made i somehow to commandline and used “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade” then reboot and the AVwizard came up
• D-Link usb hub blocked boot/firmware, so it was stuck in the grey firmware screen
• tried to set network to dhcp in lmce-admin → Advanced → Network → Network Settings for “1. External network card eth0”, it took ages and finally i changed it manually in /etc/network/interfaces (not needed if Apple USB Ethernet is installed before rebooting new installed LinuxMCE)

Let's go

1. Drop in DVD and boot from cdrom - Boot LinuxMCE live
2. in grub select “Boot LinuxMCE live DVD” (first option)
3. TAB to set boot options and add nomodeset reboot=pci
4. hit ENTER to run installer
5. Wait till it completely bootet…
6. Install Broadcom BCM57765 ethernet driver. Not needed if an internet connection already exists. If it does not work try to get connection via another device.
7. Follow the nice looking installer (If you can't figure out how to do this, go home! )

Chroot the freshly installed LMCE-Disk

Do the following step:

chroot /target

DID NOT WORK FOR ME! SO I DID THIS:

Boot from LiveCD, again. In Terminal:

sudo mount --bind /dev/ /media/disk/dev/
sudo mount --bind /proc/ /media/disk/proc/
sudo mount --bind /sys/ /media/disk/sys/
sudo chroot /media/disk/

Broadcom BCM57765 ethernet tg3-driver install

Download Driver (from another Computer)

http://www.broadcom.com/support/license.php?file=570x/linux-3.122g.zip

unzip the file and search for tg3-3.116j.tar.gz and put it on a usb drive plug it in to your freshly installed and not yet rebootet LinuxMCE machine.

Go to dir and install

mkdir /usr/pluto/drivers && cd /usr/pluto/drivers
cd tg3-3.116j/
tar xfvz /path/to/tg3-3.116j.tar.gz /usr/pluto/drivers/
make
make install
insmod tg3.ko
modprobe tg3
dhclient eth0 # OBTAIN IP ADDRESS FROM DHCP 

Update grub to enable reboot and graphics

Make sure is still working chroot /target

edit

vi /etc/default/grub

and verify that GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT contains nomodeset and reboot=pci Possibly its the best to add these values at the end

e.g.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset reboot=pci"

Whats going on ..

• nomodeset fixes black screen after boot
• reboot=pci enables reboot, if not set it won't reboot

To apply the new settings to grub run

update-grub

Now you should be able to boot without getting a black screen and you are also able to reboot, but hold on for a few more minutes

Install Apple USB Ethernet

Install Apple USB Ethernet Adapter - download the driver to an USB drive mount it and copy it as needed if no internet available

Driver download: http://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/driver/AX88772B_772A_760_772_178_LINUX2.6.35_Driver_v3.5.0_Source.tar.bz2

mkdir /usr/pluto/drivers && cd /usr/pluto/drivers
mkdir asix
cd asix
cp path/to/AX88772B_772A_760_772_178_LINUX2.6.35_Driver_v3.5.0_Source.tar.bz2 ./
tar xvjf AX88772B_772A_760_772_178_LINUX2.6.35_Driver_v3.5.0_Source.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo module-assistant prepare

Add following lines to asix/asix.c after .driver_info = (unsigned long) &belkin178_info, (hint from Ubuntu Forums )

}, {
     // Apple USB Ethernet Adapter
     USB_DEVICE(0x05ac, 0x1402),
     .driver_info = (unsigned long) &ax88772_info,

Install it ..

sudo modprobe -r asix
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe asix

First reboot !!!

sudo reboot

auto install NVIDIA 320M

Basic Steps to make it work automatically:

Check NVIDIA Card

sudo apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-260 | grep -i Installed
sudo lspci -nn | grep VGA

Update pciid

sudo update-pciids
lspci -nn | grep VGA

Get pciid

lspci -nn | grep -vi "non-vga" | grep "VGA" | sed 's/.*://;s/\].*//' 

add pciid in nvidia-install.sh. Add it to both lines DRIVER_260_SUPPORTED and VDPAU_REV_C_SUPPORTED

sudo nano -w /usr/pluto/bin/nvidia-install.sh

Install TT-connect 3650 S2 DVB receiver

Remove previous installed modules:

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.32-41-generic/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/*

S2API

mkdir 3650
cd 3650
hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin
cd s2-liplianin
make
make install
cd v4l/
sudo modprobe dvb-core
sudo modprobe stb6100
sudo modprobe stb0899
sudo modprobe lnbp22
sudo modprobe ttpci-eeprom
sudo modprobe dvb-usb
sudo modprobe dvb-usb-pctv452e

ISSUE

/home/jochen/3650/s2-liplianin/v4l/firedtv-1394.c:298: error: implicit declaration of function 'hpsb_unregister_protocol'
make[3]: *** [/home/jochen/3650/s2-liplianin/v4l/firedtv-1394.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/jochen/3650/s2-liplianin/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-33-generic'
make[1]: *** [default] Fehler 2
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/jochen/3650/s2-liplianin/v4l'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

FIX

change CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV=m to CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV=y

in

./3650/s2-liplianin/v4l/.config

Public Key Error medibuntu

By making sure that the LinuxMCE is up to date i had trouble doing “apt-get update”.

Error

W: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid

Fix

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2EBC26B60C5A2783

MythTV

Settings

I used these instructions to setup my usb tv tuner.

Astra 19.2E scan settings

freq: 12551500

pol: horizontal/vertical (scan for both)

symbol rate: 22000000

fec: auto

mythbackend died

Error Messages:

1. Frame Buffering failed to many times

Solution:

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,12659.msg90402.html#msg90402

FIX "mythtv has died" message

Basically you need to downgrade pluto-dcecommon as follows:

wget http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/dists/lucid/beta2/binary-i386/pluto-dcecommon_2.0.0.45.12062726126_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i pluto-dcecommon_2.0.0.45.12062726126_i386.deb
reboot

Set DB password to make mythfilldatabase running

Grant all previliges to mythtv user and set password as shown in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt

Make sure “DBHostName” is set to “localhost” in /etc/mythtv/config.xml

Example:

<Configuration>
  <UPnP>
    <MythFrontend>
      <DefaultBackend>
        <!--
Set the <LocalHostName> hostname override below only if you want to use
something other than the machine's real hostname for identifying settings
in the database.  This is useful if your hostname changes often, as
otherwise you'll need to reconfigure mythtv every time.

NO TWO HOSTS MAY USE THE SAME VALUE
-->
        <DBHostName>localhost</DBHostName>
        <DBUserName>mythtv</DBUserName>
        <DBPassword>mythtv</DBPassword>
        <DBName>mythconverg</DBName>
        <DBPort>0</DBPort>
      </DefaultBackend>
    </MythFrontend>
    <UDN>
      <MediaRenderer>698eda30-c349-4ae9-bc7c-ed00eca7043e</MediaRenderer>
    </UDN>
  </UPnP>
</Configuration>