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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Well my R3700 is finally here. I whacked Ubuntu 10.10 on it, spent some time tinkering and sorting out the wlan driver that causes it to hang on shutdown and a few other tweaks. put xbmc on and then spent a day trying to get the sound to work over hdmi - gave up and installed Win 7 Pro instead. Got that working well and then decided to use this tut to put XBMC on - with a few changes.

    1- I used the iODD drive I bought recently to mount the xbmc live cd image and installed from that instead of a usb stick.
    2 - I let the installer manage resizing the windows partition etc. so I now have my revo dual booting Win 7 and standalone xbmc.
    3 - I couldn't install the xserver-xorg-dev - kept giving errors about some dependencies not being met - I ran
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    and then everything else worked exactly as descibed in the tut

    That's as far as I got before wifey wanted the telly back so I'll be doing more tweaks etc this week.

    Many thanks for the guide DejaVu

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Couple more issues I've had

    the command to install the Nvidia drivers has the letter b missing off the end of it in - it should be

    Code:
    sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.36.run -k $(uname -r) --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules --x-library-path=/usr/lib
    Careful installing the new drivers - I installed them and xbmc would only boot to a login prompt, xbmc wouldn't run - seems to be an issue with the new driver not removing the old one properly.
    There are also new drivers available today (7/3/2011) new link for them is
    Code:
    wget http://uk.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.44/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.44.run
    then installing with :-

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    sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.44.run -k $(uname -r) --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules --x-library-path=/usr/lib
    If you decide to install the new drivers from the link above

    download them as described in the guide (you can try and install them but wait plenty of time when it hangs at the login prompt just to make sure the drivers aren't installing - then if it fails run the commands below) BUT then remove the current NVIDIA driver that's loaded with xbmc live with :-

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    sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
    Then run this command :-

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    modprobe -l |grep nvidia
    That should give a FATAL Error - don't worry - it just proves the NVidia driver has been deleted properly

    if it shows a list of paths and files with nvidia in them then you'll need to delete them manually with rm -f filename
    Last edited by Northernbloke; 8th March 2011 at 10:57 PM.

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Cheers NothernBloke. I'll update the OP.

    sudo apt-get update
    or sudo apt-get upgrade seemed to break bits the last time I did it. It updated grub and a few other things and didnt load correctly.


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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    AFAIK - update only updates the lists of what's on the repositories and upgrade will check what packages you have installed and upgrade them. I think it needed the update to find out the package info - but I'm a newbie at Linux

    Having issues with those new drivers - but think I've finally sussed it and sorted it - I screwed up earlier and wasn't paying attention and ended up reinstalling xbmc live onto the entire hdd - wiped out my Win 7 install and dual boot but on the plus side I'm gaining lots of practise and experience installing it so many times

    After I did a clean install of xbmc live I was following your guide but after installing the new 260.19.44 drivers I rebooted and it just sat at the login prompt.

    I logged in as xbmc and tried to run
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    xinit xbmc-live
    and found it couldn't start because of an API mismatch between the nvidia driver kernel and the driver module - seems like the new driver doesn't remove the old 195.36.24 driver properly - I'm just at the stage now where I've got the new drivers on and booting correctly again - but it was a lot of pain finding out what was going wrong and googling for info to fix it.

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Quote Originally Posted by Northernbloke View Post
    After I did a clean install of xbmc live I was following your guide but after installing the new 260.19.44 drivers I rebooted and it just sat at the login prompt.
    Did you wait for a few minutes? After the NVidia driver install, I usually make a cuppa as it tends to take a while to boot in the first time after doing that. Login screen sits doing nothing, but you do not login. After a while, it boots into XBMC. I gathered this was to initialise the new driver - and perhaps to delete the old one...!?

    Also, updated the guide for adding Website integration, Social Networking and Widget support.

    MediaFrontPage (the best thing IMO!) is next!!


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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    waited about 5 mins or so I guess - screen kept flickering but only the login prompt ever showed - previously I'd waited as seen something appear after the login prompt - like some sort of auto login typing the username then it went straight into the main xbmc screen.

    I googled for issues about stopping at the login and found it happened a lot after installing the drivers, thats how I found the xinit command that showed me the cause was the API error from the kernel/driver mismatch. the rest is history.

    I've just tried adding the repos - I've got my Revo shared and can browse it ok - can't find the System/Downloads folder though?

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Any chance you can add a guide for setting up samba shares

    I want to use my NAS as a samba share for SabNZB to dump completed downloads to - seem to be banging my head off walls at every turn - I can see the shares already set up on my NAS and Popcorn box fine with xbmc - I just can't seem to work out how to set up a link to them so linux can see them in the os and I can use them for sabNZB
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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Quote Originally Posted by Northernbloke View Post
    Any chance you can add a guide for setting up samba shares

    I want to use my NAS as a samba share for SabNZB to dump completed downloads to - seem to be banging my head off walls at every turn - I can see the shares already set up on my NAS and Popcorn box fine with xbmc - I just can't seem to work out how to set up a link to them so linux can see them in the os and I can use them for sabNZB
    I do not use NAS, but it sounds like you need to setup permanent mounts for shared drives. I share my Windows 7 drives (2x 1TB) back to Linux and share them with SabNZBd that way. If this is what you mean - and the NAS has a hostname and folder shared. It's pretty easy to setup.

    I'll explain how I setup my shares as mounted folders in Linux tomorrow.
    In the mean time, if you have Samba installed -

    Google - "DejaVu77 /etc/fstab/ XBMC".

    That should narrow it down a bit!


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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Cheers DejaVu - I gave up last night - but by then I had sorted out permanently mounting them through the FStab file - thats working fine, but I couldn't write to them - I checked the folder permissions on the NAS and all was ok. SabNZB could create a new folder in my NAS download folder but can't write anything to it - I set the sabNZB config settings to use 777 for the download folder mask.

    Had a look at your link and hopefully adding the "rw,noperm,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775" to my mount lines in FStab might help - I'll try that tonight

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    nope adding those permissions to the fstab file made it worse - it couldn't even create the folder - as it stands currently sabNZB can get my rss stream and download the files ok but when it tries to unpack and move them it creates the new folder in the shared folder I've allocated to it on the NAS and mounted though fstab, but then errors out and creates a new folder adding .1 to the end of the folder name until I end up with 10+ empty folders in my shared folder like this (extracted_folder is just what I'm calling it here - it get the correct name of whatever the downloaded nzb was)

    extracted_folder
    extracted_folder.1
    extracted_folder.1.1
    extracted_folder.1.1.1
    extracted_folder.1.1.1.1

    And so on

    how can it create folders but not be able to write to them?

    when I'm logged in via putty - these are the permissions for the shared folder I'm trying to use

    drwxrwxrwx+ 11 21 root 0 2011-03-08 20:21 XBMC

    The extracted folders get created ok in that folder but they have the permissions :-

    drwxrwx---+ 2 21 root 0 2011-03-08 20:10 extracted_folder
    I don't know what the + means at the end of the permissions though

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    I had this problem trying to rack my brain now how i fixed it

    edit my problem was the other way round i was sharing the download folder on the XBMC box
    Last edited by Tim.Lad; 8th March 2011 at 10:44 PM.

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    feck me - what a marathon that was finally got sabNZB to throw the completed downloads across to my NAS box - here's the line that worked in my fstab file

    Code:
    //server_hostname/shared_folder /mnt/server_hostname/shared_folder cifs user,rw,suid,noperm,username=****,password=**** 0 0
    I created a new folder in the /mnt folder called server_hostname and then another one inside that called shared_folder (or whatever you want to call them on your system)


    EDITED - missed the /mnt off the command to put in fstab
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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Quote Originally Posted by Northernbloke View Post
    feck me - what a marathon that was finally got sabNZB to throw the completed downloads across to my NAS box - here's the line that worked in my fstab file

    Code:
    //server_hostname/shared_folder /server_hostname/shared_folder cifs user,rw,suid,noperm,username=****,password=**** 0 0
    Makes my life easier when updating the Tut! Cheers Northernbloke!


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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    XBMC-live 10.1 is out now

    I just ran :-
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    Then

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    sudo stop xbmc-live
    Then

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    sudo apt-get install xbmc
    I tried to restart it but got a message saying it was already running

    it upgraded about 6 packages then I rebooted to be on the safe side, it decided my disk needed checking so I let it check then XBMC came up as normal, still working fine

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    For those that want the "easy option", XBMCFreak should be updated and ready this weekend.

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Well finally got myself one of those hp remotes from eBay

    New HP Microsoft MCE Media center IR Remote Control Kit on eBay (end time 19-Apr-11 10:36:29 BST)

    Plugged it in turned on the revo but it won't respond to anything that I press

    Any ideas?

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Quote Originally Posted by fanni View Post
    Well finally got myself one of those hp remotes from eBay

    New HP Microsoft MCE Media center IR Remote Control Kit on eBay (end time 19-Apr-11 10:36:29 BST)

    Plugged it in turned on the revo but it won't respond to anything that I press

    Any ideas?
    What are you running?
    Windows 7, XBMC Live, Ubuntu?
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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

    Quote Originally Posted by tombott View Post
    What are you running?
    Windows 7, XBMC Live, Ubuntu?
    xbmclive on acer revo 3700

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    Default Re: Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

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    xbmclive on acer revo 3700
    Have you enabled the remote control in XBMC?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tombott View Post
    Have you enabled the remote control in XBMC?

    Where from just been through the settings and cant see anything

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