This is truly an amazing distro. You've accomplished what a dedicated HTPC is all about. Act and behave like a "normal" Hifi/video component. This means fast and lean start-ups and no visual of the underlying OS. Congrats!
However, I have some issues (minor and severe) using your latest beta (90.1 and .2) on a Fujitsu Scaleo E (P4/Geforce 210)
(ALC 880 with Geforce 210 HDMI)
From the looks of it, "
aplay" was bundled in earlier builds, but it's missing now. In the early stages of TeamXBMC Dharma Live beta releases, the Geforce HDMI was found on device 1 pin 7. Due to remapping using the 04-configNVIDIAasoundrc.sh script (which initially did not include the ALC880 but now does, see
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ght=ALC880), it now can be found on 1.3.
At first, I wasn’t able to get any sound through HDMI and also couldn’t use aplay to figure it out. After some testing I found HDMI was still using 1.7 on the openelec release. Using an old asound.conf made things right.
In early TeamXBMC Dharma Live releases, it took ages (well, minutes anyway) for the machine to go to sleep. They fixed it in later versions.
Openelec still has this issue. It takes minutes for the system to go to sleep and when resumed via remote (which works out of the box) the system wakes immediately but it takes minutes before the remote kicks in. Note, this only happens after a few minutes of operation. On a fresh start in the first few minutes, sleeping/resuming works fine.
In the log you'll find two suspend/wake sessions. In both cases I suspended the machine and immediately try to wake it up using the remote. In the second occurence you'll find it takes some 3 minutes for the machine to go to sleep after the command is initiated and also some 3 minutes before the remote starts working after a successful wake.
http://www.pastebin.ca/2038184
The XOT-uzg3 add-on (from the net.rieter.xot.repository) which mostly streams Dutch video content does not work properly. It doesn't display all content available on the main screen (in contrast on the “normal” Live release) and generates python related errors (see attached log). Also, for this plugin to work smoothly, it needs to overcome the poor streaming capabilities of XBMC (see numerous entries in XBMC’s forum). It should be fixed using the
libmms 0.6 (used in maverick). Can you tell me if the library is being used?
You’ve mentioned that the “drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp module!” would be fixed, but it still there and occurs on various Intel chipsets
Don’t know if I should post this here on in the openelec.tv forum, but the Scaleo E features a VFD which can be used using the dm140gink driver (placed in /usr/lib/lcdproc), found here:
http://members.multiweb.nl/dragonfly/dm140.so 23kb and LCDd.conf entry
http://members.multiweb.nl/dragonfly/LCDd.conf
Now, I’m really not an expert on Linux Architecture, but can it be made possible to make a user driver directory on the Storage part using symbolic links or something. In this dir (advanced) users can place there own VFD, TV-card, Wlan drivers. Again, don’t know if this is even possible in Linux.
The ability to use a webbrowser (mentioned several times, I believe). There may not be a fully integrated browser out there which fully works with a remote, but plenty that work using a keyboard/mouse which can be started ouside XBMC. Please do not add something like Firefox. It looks plain ugly and outdated. Use something like Chromium which has a minimalistic interface