(2015-06-02, 01:30)knives of ice Wrote: the adaptor appears to work just fine but i'm going nuts because for some reason i get this wavy part of the picture that will appear randomly on my tv upstairs. i'm not sure how to describe it other than picture interference that goes down the screen randomly every few minutes when trying to watch something. i had this problem with the first adaptor which made me think must be a crappy adaptor so i bought a 2nd one and i still get the same thing. the other problem is the adaptor will not work with any 7.1 dts-hd surround sound.

not sure if this problem is even avoidable i may be better off using an hdmi switch at this point. no idea what could be causing the problem with the adaptor.

(2015-06-02, 01:37)anillilani7 Wrote: Hello all,

Thanks for all the help Matt. Tried to contact you back, but rules changed (I read the PM thread).

I followed all the proper steps for standalone OE on Asus CB M004U, realized some addons not working properly, and thought it could be because it was the Beta version. Saw that you updated the EZ script to include the Stable version of OE. BUT, I read in places, and maybe your post, that downgrading that far may be a bad idea, and it is better to full reinstall a previous version. Followed your link to OE's wiki and used youtube to figure it out. Seems done now.

(2014-05-07, 19:48)Matt Devo Wrote: Note: this requires you to have completed the Standalone Setup, which will update the ChromeBox's firmware to my custom coreboot build.

My questions:
1. What do you mean by YOUR custom coreboot build? My bad if this is a beginner question lol.
2. And if so, how is it different from following the OE wiki page and downloading the OS from OE's website? This is what I did.
3. Is there a reason to prefer one over the other?

Thanks!

(2015-06-01, 18:38)Tigerman82 Wrote:

(2015-06-01, 18:23)amcfarla Wrote: New Asus chromeboxes were announced today with Broadwell processor update, hopefully this method works on these new devices:

http://liliputing.com/2015/06/asus-refreshes-its-mini-pc-lineup-new-chromebox-vivopc-vivomini-models.html

I was about to buy the Celeron Asus Chromebox but I guess I should wait a little unless they seriously lower the price of the current models. I'm gonna throw Kodibuntu inside and watch flash streams for at least 3-5 years with it.

(2015-06-02, 07:21)knives of ice Wrote: matt

for displayport i just select DP1 right? that is definitely selected. i don't get the output waviness issue that occurs randomly. i thought perhaps it could be a settings issue. the audio, that is only being outputted to one device and i have to go in and select/change the audio. with displayport all audio outputs work no problem for regular DTS/Dolby but it seems the displayport cable will not pass on and HD audio options, switch to hdmi and it is no problem.

the audio i can live with because my receiver upstairs doesn't support hd audio anyways, so i can use that with the DP adaptor and the hdmi output to downstairs. but the waviness on the picture that occurs randomly drives me nuts. i began to think it could be some type of interference with bad shielding on the adaptor or if there was a certain setting i may need to change.

i'm not even trying to output sound or video to both displays at once, one is always shut off when the other is in use.

(2015-06-03, 02:54)knives of ice Wrote: ok, here is a short 30 second video to show people the problem i am having with my displayport adapter.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zBYWywXsAdRXlhQWd4RWFobWs/view?usp=sharing

does anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be? i've tried everything i can think of changing the refresh rates and acceleration settings. most of the time it isn't as bad as is displayed in the video but i wanted it to be bad so people could see what is going on.

any ideas of things to try?


my hdmi switch idea is no good either as i need 2 outputs from it. an hdmi splitter works to give me pictures on both tv's but even changing the sound settings doesn't work to get me sound downstairs. not sure what to try at this point.

(2015-06-03, 03:37)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2015-06-03, 02:54)knives of ice Wrote: ok, here is a short 30 second video to show people the problem i am having with my displayport adapter.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zBYWywXsAdRXlhQWd4RWFobWs/view?usp=sharing

does anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be? i've tried everything i can think of changing the refresh rates and acceleration settings. most of the time it isn't as bad as is displayed in the video but i wanted it to be bad so people could see what is going on.

any ideas of things to try?


my hdmi switch idea is no good either as i need 2 outputs from it. an hdmi splitter works to give me pictures on both tv's but even changing the sound settings doesn't work to get me sound downstairs. not sure what to try at this point.

that looks like a tearing/vsync issue. What's the video sync setting under Settings/System/Video Output?

(2015-06-03, 03:52)knives of ice Wrote: vertical blank sync let driver choose

are you talking about the vertical blank sync setting?

(2015-06-03, 04:05)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2015-06-03, 03:52)knives of ice Wrote: vertical blank sync let driver choose

are you talking about the vertical blank sync setting?

Yes, set it to 'Enabled during video playback' as specified in the wiki and report back. Reset other settings you've changed back to the defaults/recommended values as well

(2015-06-03, 04:22)knives of ice Wrote: that did nothing to help unfortunately. i changed the settings, rebooted and no help.

the settings specified in the wiki are all in the screenshots 1-3 correct?

i'm running dedicated openelec on the box. some of the setting screens i don't even have i assume they are for older versions of openelec maybe? i don't have the screen that starts with deinterlace video that i can see anywhere.

apologies if i'm missing something.

(2015-06-03, 04:41)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2015-06-03, 04:22)knives of ice Wrote: that did nothing to help unfortunately. i changed the settings, rebooted and no help.

the settings specified in the wiki are all in the screenshots 1-3 correct?

i'm running dedicated openelec on the box. some of the setting screens i don't even have i assume they are for older versions of openelec maybe? i don't have the screen that starts with deinterlace video that i can see anywhere.

apologies if i'm missing something.

no, not all of them, otherwise there'd be quite a few more screenshots. They're for OE 5.x, I'll wait until 6.x hits RC to update. The video playback settings are accessed via the OSD menu while a video is being played, but shouldn't have any effect on what you're seeing.

(2015-06-03, 10:43)Soli Wrote: Hi Matt. Regarding what we've talked about before:

Could you detail how to extract the vpd from a running standalone bios and inject said vpd into an existing bios/firmware backup file? I want to convert from standalone to dual boot without losing my unique device information (that is vital to receive ChromeOS updates among other things?) I only created a backup bios for one of my 2 HPs, as the wiki didn't make it clear that there were unique device information embedded in the bios.

Edit: Oh and I guess I need to extract the GBB too, since that is where the HWID is located?
I found this post: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=194362&pid=1745897#pid1745897

Could you verify this works, and that it should work from Kodibuntu? I'm no stranger to messing around, but I just want to be 100% sure that I don't brick the Chromebox.