2009-06-06, 04:54
Hint's and tips for running XBMC for Linux on Ubuntu 8.04 on the Zotac Ionitx-D-E dual-core atom330 board.
1) Min ram is 1GB, vram is taken directly from sysram so when you up the BIOS vram to 512, the system will have 512MB to run. XBMC will run fine in 512MB but it's best to just plan on installing 2GB and skip any possible issues.
2) ALSA is borked on Ubuntu 8.04 with respect to the HDA NVidia codec. It will work but will be missing the HDMI device and worse the audio will periodically get static/clipping. This is fixed by
Then you get proper audio devices and the audio is fixed
davilla@zotac:~/tmp$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 Digital [ALC662 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
3) Power usage. IN WIN BM639 Case with internal 120W Power Supply. 2GB ram, 320BG 3.5" sata HD, 5.25" DVD/CD sata drive. The most I've seen is 35 watts. Least is 32 watts. About 1/2 that is the HD/DVD disks. That's with vdpau enabled.
4) Boot speed. This has the fastest power-on BIOS boot into grub that I've ever seen, 1-2 seconds. Full boot into ubuntu desktop is about 25 seconds. Remember, this is a plain jane ubuntu 8.04 desktop install, nothing fancy.
5) Remote Control. Decided to try the Sony Playstation BD remote. It's a bluetooth remote. Add a BT USB stick and follow this -> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28765
6) Audio over HDMI. Works great, change the default and passthrough audio devices from "default" and "iec958" to "hdmi". Run alsamixer and make sure "iec958 1" is unmuted.
1) Min ram is 1GB, vram is taken directly from sysram so when you up the BIOS vram to 512, the system will have 512MB to run. XBMC will run fine in 512MB but it's best to just plan on installing 2GB and skip any possible issues.
2) ALSA is borked on Ubuntu 8.04 with respect to the HDA NVidia codec. It will work but will be missing the HDMI device and worse the audio will periodically get static/clipping. This is fixed by
Code:
wget wget http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-linuxant_1.0.19.2_all.deb
sudo dpkg --install alsa-driver-linuxant_1.0.19.2_all.deb
Then you get proper audio devices and the audio is fixed
davilla@zotac:~/tmp$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 Digital [ALC662 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
3) Power usage. IN WIN BM639 Case with internal 120W Power Supply. 2GB ram, 320BG 3.5" sata HD, 5.25" DVD/CD sata drive. The most I've seen is 35 watts. Least is 32 watts. About 1/2 that is the HD/DVD disks. That's with vdpau enabled.
4) Boot speed. This has the fastest power-on BIOS boot into grub that I've ever seen, 1-2 seconds. Full boot into ubuntu desktop is about 25 seconds. Remember, this is a plain jane ubuntu 8.04 desktop install, nothing fancy.
5) Remote Control. Decided to try the Sony Playstation BD remote. It's a bluetooth remote. Add a BT USB stick and follow this -> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28765
6) Audio over HDMI. Works great, change the default and passthrough audio devices from "default" and "iec958" to "hdmi". Run alsamixer and make sure "iec958 1" is unmuted.