2014-01-31, 12:27
This has probably been covered a million times already but not so tailor made to my build.
So about a month ago I ditched Windows 8 for OpenELEC on my Intel NUC Celeron thingy. Fast as hell and easy to use as just a media center.
Then I got into the idea of making it an emulator too and this is where the wheels fell off. Despite following the retroarch guide on OpenELEC.TV forum to the last letter I could only get SNES emulation to work and that was without sound.
So I figured with OpenELEC being a real bare bones version of linux maybe I should try XBMCBuntu.
Couldn't get the bloody thing to boot up. I think this might be a UEFI but I disabled it in the BIOS yet I still only get a flashing cursor, nothing else.
Next step, the full flagged Ubuntu. This boots, installs and was able to get XBMC working fairly well. Except my pulse-eight CEC adapter was having none of it. I tried the install-xbmc.sh from http://packages.pulse-eight.net/UbuntuInstall but that says it's not supported on the current version of the OS (13 fully updated).
So now I'm back to square one. Do I go back to Windows or is there a Ubuntu version that works fine with my Pulse-Eight adapter?
So about a month ago I ditched Windows 8 for OpenELEC on my Intel NUC Celeron thingy. Fast as hell and easy to use as just a media center.
Then I got into the idea of making it an emulator too and this is where the wheels fell off. Despite following the retroarch guide on OpenELEC.TV forum to the last letter I could only get SNES emulation to work and that was without sound.
So I figured with OpenELEC being a real bare bones version of linux maybe I should try XBMCBuntu.
Couldn't get the bloody thing to boot up. I think this might be a UEFI but I disabled it in the BIOS yet I still only get a flashing cursor, nothing else.
Next step, the full flagged Ubuntu. This boots, installs and was able to get XBMC working fairly well. Except my pulse-eight CEC adapter was having none of it. I tried the install-xbmc.sh from http://packages.pulse-eight.net/UbuntuInstall but that says it's not supported on the current version of the OS (13 fully updated).
So now I'm back to square one. Do I go back to Windows or is there a Ubuntu version that works fine with my Pulse-Eight adapter?