2009-09-26, 17:14
Just an update to the trials and tribulations of this board and a linux newby...
So I installed Umbutu Desktop and the XBMC live over top and this did get the power management working. Only problem was that the network is lost on resume and required a reboot to re-enable it which kind of defeats the purpose of suspend. I found a post that basically said that it was a driver issue, but the users solution was just to disable onboard LAN and put in his own nic.
I also had issues getting SPDIF working doing the install this way, the line added to Alsa Conf did not work this time and it looked like alsamixer was not identifying my chipset correctly...not really sure though. Just could not get any sound through optical.
I only installed Live instead of XBMC as a standalone app because Firefox was locking the system when run from the desktop and I just really did not want to work on figuring that one out. So I was going to dump the desktop version anyway and installed Live over top to see what would happen and found it interesting that almost everything seemed to work except sound.
Right now I am in the middle of a minimal install to see I figure out the packages I need to add to it instead of keeping the broken desktop version. I also think I need to do something about heat, even through I replaced the onboard chipset heatsink, the location of the case is not ideal and I need to get more airflow going through it.
So I installed Umbutu Desktop and the XBMC live over top and this did get the power management working. Only problem was that the network is lost on resume and required a reboot to re-enable it which kind of defeats the purpose of suspend. I found a post that basically said that it was a driver issue, but the users solution was just to disable onboard LAN and put in his own nic.
I also had issues getting SPDIF working doing the install this way, the line added to Alsa Conf did not work this time and it looked like alsamixer was not identifying my chipset correctly...not really sure though. Just could not get any sound through optical.
I only installed Live instead of XBMC as a standalone app because Firefox was locking the system when run from the desktop and I just really did not want to work on figuring that one out. So I was going to dump the desktop version anyway and installed Live over top to see what would happen and found it interesting that almost everything seemed to work except sound.
Right now I am in the middle of a minimal install to see I figure out the packages I need to add to it instead of keeping the broken desktop version. I also think I need to do something about heat, even through I replaced the onboard chipset heatsink, the location of the case is not ideal and I need to get more airflow going through it.
