Thanks, this was a great howto!
Few points:
(Take this wireless advice with a grain of salt. While it did work somehow it still does not work well with the Airport Extreme. I configured it to connect to an old Airport Express and the speeds jumped up to a reasonable level)
Wireless was not working very well on my eb1501 connecting to an Apple Airport Extreme .n base station. It would work at full speed for 5-10 seconds, then nothing at all would move for 60-90s. It seemed to work a bit better with no encryption but living in a fairly busy region with a 100/10mbit connection I prefer to use WPA. I followed
these (or something similar) instructions to get it to work:
- Comment out the ath_pci blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf
install linux-backports-modules-karmic and linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic (and maybe linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic-pae don't know if it's mandatory)
This is not directly related to your FAQ, but without the fix I was unable to install anything over wireless, it would just time out or give strange errors.
In your instructions you mention:
Quote:xbmc:$ sudo apt-get install lirc
...
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source
I did not get any possibility to "point it to /dev/input/irremote", rather it just gave the options for remote and transmitter.
Also you mention reconfiguring lirc-modules-source but it was not installed on my computer despite going through the instructions step by step (lirc apparently did not install it as a requirement).
Everything worked fine by copying your configuration files, but it would have been much faster for me if there was a mention about the configuration info being lower down the instructions.
I can now see events under irw, but xbmc is still not responding to the remote.
edit: figured it out by putting xbmc in debug mode. It seemed to be looking for Lircmap.xml, not lircmap.xml
So this:
Code:
xbmc:$ wget http://nfye.com/EB1501/lircmap.xml -O ~/.xbmc/userdata/lircmap.xml
Should probably be this:
Code:
xbmc:$ wget http://nfye.com/EB1501/lircmap.xml -O ~/.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml
After changing the files name the remote started to work under xbmc.
edit:
Another thing that could be mentioned in case somebody else plans to dual boot too, is the fact that at least for me grub did not work with the keyboard before disabling boot boost (if I remember correctly) from the bios.
edit3:
In case somebody sets this up with a desktop ubuntu set up like me, and use a WPA/WPA2 wireless network you might notice you are requested for the keychain password every time you restart the computer. Needless to say this does not work very well with having XBMC start automatically with the computer. To get around this the easiest way is to not set a keychain password. What this will do is save all the passwords in your keychain in cleartext (so I would not save anything you really don't want in cleartext in your home folder).
Go to .gnome2/keychains folder located under your home folder and remove all the files. The next time you reboot you will once again be asked for your wireless networks key, and after that to set a new keychain password. Don't enter any password for the keychain and the computer will ask if you are sure you want to use an insecure setting. Accept and you will not be asked for the keychain password on any of the following restarts.
