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Can I still get LinuxICE 2.0?

HiJackZX1 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:40:46 GMT

I have a question and I am sure you guys on the Linux side can answer. After building a mega multi-zone system and being hit with so many issues, I have decided to pull the setup out and use it as a desktop PC. Thing is, I still want multi-zone. I see that they will be selling the Raspberry Pi for about $35.00. That makes building a multi-zone rig much more affordable and cost effective. Maybe about $100.00 per seat for the setups. Now because these bad boys only use Linux, that means I need a Linux based FE.

So here is where the questions start. I will be asking FE and hardware questions.

1) Will LinuxICE run on the Raspberry Pi. In the FAQ's it says newer version of Ubunti will not commit. Isnt LinuxICE based off an older version, so it will work?

2) The Raspberry Pi runs off of 5V 1amp mini USB power. I was thinking of buying 6 car chargers that meet the specs, but are they regulated? Would I have to supply regulated 12V power? I also have 7 car chargers that run 5V 2amps for the KVMP switches so I want to be sure so I dont kill nothing. Maybe I can take car pc PSU and mod it to power everything?

3) Will LinuxICE work on a SD card?

4) Any other things I should take into account?

Thanx in advance!

Is LinuxICE dead?

wag3slav3 — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:05:49 GMT

I am looking for a better 3D based front end for my ION System. I am a linux enthusiast and would love to run it in my car so it can match all of my other systems.

Unfortunately I can't find screen shots, up to date support information or a valid install howto for this software.

So far I've found 1 screenshot for a third party skin (that looks pretty generic) a wiki with 90% out of date information (not linked url wiki.openice is external) that has a download page with 3 links, only 1 that works but doesn't go to the software it claims.

From what I can see LinuxICE and nGhost work together to make this system. I don't see any documentation that says what LinuxICE is other than it's based on an outdated Ubuntu (9.04) and I can't find a version of nghost that exists in a valid repo. (listed repo responds to an apt-get install nghost with "package is referred to but doesn't exist" error)

Has this software been abandoned or am I missing a link to a wiki/forum with a group of people in it?

Install size

Shugs81 — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:23:37 GMT

Hi

can anyone tell me what the default installation size is for basic functions like audio and video?

also can this support bluetooth h/f with mic and dongle and also internet tethering with an android phone?

gps isn't important as my phone has it anyway...

ta peeps... just wanna be sure it'll fit on a 2gb cf card and use an external hd for music!

LinuxICE finicky on reading mp3 files

sunil — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:48:33 GMT

I have BlackSea skin. Sometimes i see the files listed sometimes i don't. When i do see them and select a file, the selections truncates down to a single different file and it plays. Now i cannot go back to the original list.
I have tried:
1. Modification of apps.xml in the skin folder.
2. Modification of video and music libraries in the skin folder.
3. Deleted the only file under /.nGhost and rebooted.
4. multiple subfolders in Music folder.
5. Modified nGhost.conf
6. Changing skins.
7. Ran nscan and nGhost in terminal a zillion times.
8. Pulled my hair and got an earful from wife.
What else can i do other than reinstall?
Sunil

Linux Ice won't install

pod25music — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:29:26 GMT

So, I have gone ahead and installed the latest Ubuntu onto my car pc.

It is a Intel Atom Mini ITX board, 2 gigs of ram and 260 gig sata drive, standard 7" touch monitor.

Ubunto has installed fine and runs great.
Now I want to install the latest version of LinuxIce. I'm installing from a USB stick, the same way I installed Ubuntu.
But it won't install. It stays on what can be described as a DOS page, the last entry said something about:
Monitor found, but no usable configuration file was found.
And that is where it stays and LinuxIce won't install.

Any ideas anyone ??

Can't compile nghost with filesystem listbox

superman279 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:48:15 GMT

Code:

jusitn@jusitn-linuxice:~/nghost/trunk$ sudo make

make  all-recursive

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk'

Making all in src

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src'

Making all in nscan

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/nscan'

make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/nscan'

Making all in skins

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins'

Making all in vistique

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique'

Making all in screens

make[5]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens'

Making all in images

make[6]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images'

Making all in menu_buttons

make[7]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images/menu_buttons'

make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images/menu_buttons'

Making all in weather

make[7]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images/weather'

make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images/weather'

make[7]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images'

make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images'

make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens/images'

make[6]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens'

make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens'

make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique/screens'

make[5]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique'

make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique'

make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/vistique'

Making all in trueice

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/trueice'

make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins/trueice'

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins'

make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins'

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/skins'

Making all in icons

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/icons'

make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/icons'

Making all in desktop

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/desktop'

make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src/desktop'

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src'

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -Wall -g -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/SDL    -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/lib/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -I/usr/include/taglib   -DPLUGIN_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/nghost\" -DHAS_QT -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore   -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/nghost   -I/usr/include/nghost -I/usr/include/taglib   -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/nghost -I/usr/include/SDL -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/lib/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/include/taglib -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/nghost   -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/nghost -I/usr/include/SDL   -I/usr/include/nghost   -g -O2 -MT nghost-event.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/nghost-event.Tpo -c -o nghost-event.o `test -f 'event.cpp' || echo './'`event.cpp

event.cpp: In member function ‘int EventClass::ifListboxEvent()’:

event.cpp:379: error: ‘class nghost::SearchDir’ has no member named ‘isDir’

event.cpp: In member function ‘int EventClass::doListBoxAction(nghost::ActionClass, int)’:

event.cpp:1020: error: ‘fsListBox’ is not a member of ‘nghost’

event.cpp:1020: error: ‘fsl’ was not declared in this scope

event.cpp:1020: error: expected type-specifier

event.cpp:1020: error: expected `>'

event.cpp:1020: error: expected `('

event.cpp:1020: error: ‘fsListBox’ is not a member of ‘nghost’

event.cpp:1020: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token

event.cpp:1020: error: expected `)' before ‘;’ token

event.cpp:1034: error: ‘fsListBox’ is not a member of ‘nghost’

event.cpp:1034: error: ‘fsl’ was not declared in this scope

event.cpp:1034: error: expected type-specifier

event.cpp:1034: error: expected `>'

event.cpp:1034: error: expected `('

event.cpp:1034: error: ‘fsListBox’ is not a member of ‘nghost’

event.cpp:1034: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token

event.cpp:1034: error: expected `)' before ‘;’ token

event.cpp:1046: error: ‘fsListBox’ is not a member of ‘nghost’

event.cpp:1046: error: ‘fsl’ was not declared in this scope

event.cpp:1046: error: expected type-specifier

event.cpp:1046: error: expected `>'

event.cpp:1046: error: expected `('

event.cpp:1046: error: ‘fsListBox’ is not a member of ‘nghost’

event.cpp:1046: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token

event.cpp:1046: error: expected `)' before ‘;’ token

make[3]: *** [nghost-event.o] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src'

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk/src'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jusitn/nghost/trunk'

make: *** [all] Error 2

jusitn@jusitn-linuxice:~/nghost/trunk$

got all dependencies, "./configure" and then sudo make. not sure what the problem is but i hope its easy.

populate.cpp does contain searchDir and isDir. I downloaded the latest from the svn directed by the website.

New to Linux Ice

pod25music — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:28:31 GMT

I'm seriously considering changing my current in car operating system from Windows XP to Linux Ice.

My only real concern is my motherboard. Its a Mini ITX board, this board has a clever sound card, which allows me to change one of the inputs to a second output, so in other words, changing it from a 2 channel to a 4 channel.

Would it still be possible to do that using Linux ?

no media in nghost

Ghost2410 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:31:11 GMT

Hi man, I'm new of this forum and of linux ice. Sorry for my english... I m italian and i ve not a very good english.
I want to prove linux ice on my future car pc but i ve a lot of problem to do it:

1)The first is that nghost don t see my music and video file from library or USB. How i can resolve this? I ve seen in several forum and i see that i must modify in nghost.config the path where i have music and video. I ve done this but nothing. After i ve proved to put more subfolder (es. /home/francesco/Musica/Artista/Album) and i ve seen music after a reboot. This is for the music in library. For music in USB i ve the path /media/disk but it don't work, the same for video in library and video in USB. Can anyone help me to configure nghost please?

2) When i do a modify to nghost.config file, can i reboot only nghost without rebooting my sistem or i must reboot the sistem each time i do a modify?

3) How work nscan? If i insert my USB while nghost is opened, can i see music in USB or i must run nscan each time?

Thanks in advance for reply :)

transferring a linuxice installation

superman279 — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:03:30 GMT

i got a touchscreen computer (one of these are used at grocery stores for checkouts) and it has a PIII 750mhz processor in it. i have a usb cd drive and a thumb drive, neither which are detected at boot so I can't boot any installation of any kind at the moment. I was wondering if by installing a 32 bit installation on another computer, could the hard drive then be transferred? there is no on board cd drive either and network booting isnt supported by the bios. in the bios the boot order does have a cd drive although I see no where inside this thing as to where it could be connected. it has a mobile 2.5 ide hard drive also and only 1 ide port. I want to try and get this thing to be a media control center for my music in my garage, i think it would be perfect for it.

DAC Fix

tigergibb — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:51:17 GMT

I installed LinuxICE and my Silverstone EB01 DAC was not working.

I did this to fix it:
Open a terminal and do the following: "cat /proc/asound/modules"

You will get a list of items. One should be the onboard audio(had VIA in the name). Write down the name.

Then, type "sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf"

You can use the keyboard to navigate and add the world blacklist followed by the name of the onboard audio you retrieved above. Press CTRL+X, then Y, then ENTER to save.

USB Webcam

tigergibb — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:23:23 GMT

I have a rear-view webcam hooked up. I know there must be a way to see it. Who knows how? :)

Keyboard shortcuts

tigergibb — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:21:29 GMT

My touchscreen has always had issues (Lilliput). I'm on my 3rd one now, I think.

I have a wireless keyboard. With RoadRunner, I just edited the config to provide keyboard shortcuts for everything. How can I do this with LinuxICE? For example, I want to press M and have it take me to my music library. I want to press G and get to the GPS page(Navit). I'd like to be able to press A to enter an address in the GPS or something similar.

I just installed LinuxICE and like the simplicity. I'm still trying to get everything set up which can be a pain. I'll make a post with fixes I've had to do for others to find.

External volume control

superman279 — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:12:51 GMT

I thought this was already posted but couldn't find it. I have an external volume control (from a usb keyboard), have it hooked up and am wondering how to get it to control the volume for my system. I am thinking that it is probably easier to make it control the system volume and leave nghost volume maxed out, but the knob doesn't change any volume except mplayer's when playing videos.

When will the next LinuxICE be released?

locs4dayz — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:38:25 GMT

I have decided to go with a Windows system for the time being(wipes tears from his eyes). I can get everything I need running perfect with ease. I do eventually want to come back to linuxICE, but only after a few issues have been fixed....

1)Navigation: Navit is just not ready for my purposes at this time...Gonna go with Garmin PC(navigation and ease of use is the main reason for my carpc).

2)Video: MPlayer locks up too much for me. No problems watching movies in Windows.

3)Sound: This issue here killed it for LinuxICE. I have no more time to fool with this. Ready to start showing off my system....can't without sound.

4)Touchscreen: Touchscreen drivers at this point do not work well in LinuxICE...at least on my machine(didn't buy a touchscreen just to look at, I want it to function.....works well under Windows.

Will play with it in a virtual machine on my system though......

I really love the interface, and in time LinuxICE will be the carpc OS of choice for most(myself included). Keep up the good work!!!

How to fix sound issue using live CD?

locs4dayz — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:31:31 GMT

How do I use the live CD to fix my sound issue(I no longer have sound)?

If I add another sound card...do you think my sound will start working?

locs4dayz — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:21:27 GMT

For some reason I no longer have sound. This is a major issue. Does anyone know how I can remedy this issue without re-installing my whole system? If not I may have to partition and install windows until a solution is found( if I have to go that route LinuxICE2 is gone...I'll just go with a windows system, which I have plenty of experience with, and can solve almost all problems with relative ease and a few clicks of the mouse). Right now windows is running in virtualbox, and LinuxICE2 is the host and dedicated system. I really like my setup as is...but without sound it is useless on too many levels to be of real in car use other than web browsing. So far no one has a solution...not even on the web....at least none that have worked for me. I mainly want my system for music, movies, and navigation. Media player will take care of my music, VLC will take care of my movies, and Garmin PC(can get it off ebay for under $80 with GPS reciever, and its better than navit) would take care of navigation in windows(plus my touchscreen works flawlessly in windows). Really want to stay with LinuxICE2 though cause the interface is on point, but I need results, and this is becoming a headache. Any working solution will be appreciated!!!

How do I enable my wireless USB mouse?

locs4dayz — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:43:55 GMT

How do I get my wireless USB mouse to work?

Thanks in advance...

I'm gonna uninstall Nweather!!!

locs4dayz — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:08:13 GMT

As much as I love the LinuxICE2 interface, I see no need to keep Nweather. It is a truly useless program. Half the time it doesn't work, and when it does its unreliable. I use Firefox as my web browser, and the aniweather pluggin runs circles around Nweather. It always works, is always accurate, and no editing of files is involved. And since an Internet connection is required for either to work, the decision is a no brainer. Gonna edit the desktop menu icon for Nweather and change it to something useful that works.

Just a LinuxICE thought!

locs4dayz — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:29:49 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a digital clock that displayed time and date on the icepanel in the free space next to the osk......

Sound not working!?!

locs4dayz — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:18:50 GMT

My sound is not working, even though pulse audio shows it as actively working....and using the slider has no effect. It just goes back to the mute state....help.

Thanks in advance!!!

How do I install bleeding edge version of navit????

locs4dayz — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:11:44 GMT

I downloaded the bleeding edge version of navit from the SVN and extracted it. How the heck do I install it???:confused:

Where do I get tools for Navit???

locs4dayz — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:43:16 GMT

I believe this question was asked in one of the other threads, but wasn't the thread topic, and I don't recall anyone leaving an answer. As of present there are no tools present. So where y'all hiding the goodies? I'm sure some tools would come in handy(especially if they are for ease of setting the destination, which I cant seem to get working).

Once again Kev I'm calling ya....even though in the mean time I will be doing the :google: thing.

Thanks in advance!!!

Maybe a bug, but really annoying

superman279 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:15:15 GMT

So randomly when i turn my truck on, everything boots up but right when my skin/nghost is loaded and displayed, the screen goes black and leaves the mouse cursor still on screen. the console says that nghost has failed to read the resume data and whatnot. so since nghost can't continue playing the song that was played when my truck was shut off, it just kills itself? this is pretty annoying to me, since i don't have a keyboard in my truck, i have to take the hard-drive out and take it inside. anyone else come across this?

Need help with Virtualbox installation not starting? Here is the solution!!!

locs4dayz — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:27:56 GMT

I was having a problem with installing a working Virtualbox. Here was my install log......

Attempting to install using DKMS
removing old DKMS module vboxdrv version 3.2.8

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: vboxdrv
Version: 3.2.8
Kernel: 2.6.32-0206321708-generic (i686)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

vboxdrv.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.32-0206321708-generic/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod....(bad exit status: 1)

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 3.2.8
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.2.8/source ->
/usr/src/vboxdrv-3.2.8

DKMS: add Completed.

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.28-17-linuxice2 cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.28-17-linuxice2/build or /lib/modules/2.6.28-17-linuxice2/source.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop.

UPDATE: here is the code to fix the installation in case anyone else needs it......

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Then reboot your machine:google:

Need to install a second Kernel for emergencies!!

locs4dayz — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:12:10 GMT

I recently had to reinstall my system after it suffered a kernel panic and I did not know how to recover. I'd like to install and extra "Stable" kernel for emergency purposes. Any suggestions(leave a link to the kernel please)?

Thanks in advance!!!

Usplash background image needs to be centered on screen!!!

locs4dayz — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:30:12 GMT

I finally got my usplash created again...but now I have a small problem. It is functioning perfectly, but the background image is not centered. I built it with the source package. When I try to edit the x and y axis position settings for the image in the theme c- file, then open up the terminal where I am and run "make", the so refuses to compile, but does if I use the default c- file. Is there something I'm missing?

How to control nghost without icepanel?

locs4dayz — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:58:02 GMT

I installed nghost onto ubuntu 10.04...and all is good except one thing...I can't control it without the back button from the icepanel. So once I click on anything(except Navit), I can't return to the previous(the arrow button used to control this is part of the icepanel, which when installed and running is missing all the buttons except the music one). If I can find another way to move back to the previous screen without the icepanel that would be excellent...either that or find a way to fix the icepanel's missing buttons(prefer to not have to use the panel if possible). Thanks in advance!!!!

How to add map data for Navit???

locs4dayz — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:16:23 GMT

How do I add the map data for Navit? I downloaded the latest OpenStreetMap of the world, which was like 10gigs. Now where do I put it or how do I install the maps to Navit? I need the "babyfied" instructions on how to do this...Thanks in advance!!!

How to get Icepanel to work

locs4dayz — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:29:50 GMT

I decided to install Nghost and Icepanel to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS since LinuxICE2 is missing a lot of stuff that only a full Ubuntu install solves for me. Need to get Icepanel to show all the button so it will work. Only have the music button. Also need to know how to get Nghost and Icepanel to start automatically on startup...thanks in advance!!!

UPDATE: Got nghost doing its thing....Just need to get icepanel to display all the buttons(mainly the previous screen button) and we're a go...yeah baby!!!

Linuxice touch screen driver randomly fails to load

thatguy666 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:26:14 GMT

I've had this problem for some time and I just don't have the time to screw with the OS right now. Randomly the touch screen driver will not load. Currently I just reboot the computer since it is the quick fix. What I'm asking is if someone else has encountered this error before and if they can tell me how to solve this. I don't care if I need to blacklist a module, as long as it's not usbmouse, or write a startup script.
Thanks

Multimedia keys?

superman279 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:30:17 GMT

I have an old dell keyboard with some multimedia keys on it and am looking into butchering it up into somewhat of a multimedia control unit for my truckpc, the problem is i can't get the multimedia keys to work under matchbox. I tried a few programs but none of them seemed to work. I was looking into putting the shortcuts into the key config file for matchbox itself but i cant find anywhere where it will tell me what the keycodes are. anyone got multimedia keys to work?

A few nscan question

superman279 — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:42:37 GMT

My music library is around 25k of mp3's, i am debating on whether or not to have nscan run on startup each time, right now it isn't. how long does nscan take to scan that many mp3's? also is it possible to run nscan while linuxice is loaded but have it only scan say movies? does nscan have to scan the apps in order for them to show in the apps menu? My music library doesn't change very often, but i do like to upload videos and would like for them to show up if i click a button to say update videos or something.

2nd Try

nasa — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:41:02 GMT

Hi Again,

So finally healthy enough to put some time into my carputer, and thus have reinstalled linuxice. Basic install went fine and I was able to upgrade it to 10.04 without issue. However, I have a few things I would like some help with...

1. Calibrating my touchscreen. It's not an egalaxy like most, but rather a 3M. I have attempted to follow the directions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478877 -- But the problem I am noting is that the *box* for pressing (for lack of a better term) is smaller than the screen. About 1/4 of the screen is thus ignored. Even though it's viewable and works with a standard mouse.

2. I have a AWUS036H USB WIFI adapter. I am unsure of how to configure it. Ifconfig -a does show wlan0 with a HWaddr address. Is there a configuration app for this within linuxice/ubuntu?

3. I store all my media on an external usb drive, I want to have it mounted to a specific location at every reboot -- without it being added a 2nd time to something like /media/disk. Is this possible?

I may have others, but these are the one's slowing me down... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nasa

Clock not showing in skin

superman279 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:18:45 GMT

I got pretty much everything done with my skin except for the clock. the clock doesnt work in any skin for some reason, why?

Sirius and LinuxICE

jwmf150 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:42:58 GMT

I am new to the forum, but have been lurking here off and on for the last couple of years. I finally pulled together enough parts to put together my truckputer and installed LinuxICE 2.0.1 and all in all things went really smooth. I am running on an older VIA mini-ITX board and everything is working great. I just got the Lilliput 629GL and ran the icetouch utility and even that works great now. The only thing I have not got working yet is the usplash, but I am not too worried about that. I am still assembling it, so its not installed in the truck yet but I had a question:

Sirius and LinuxICE; I have seen several threads on here, the LinuxICE boards and even the MJS Gadgets board that reference vaguely that Linux and Sirius (MJS-SC-C1 + Sirius SC-C1) DO work together, but I have yet to hear of anyone actually implementing it. I mostly listen to that and would like to replace my Pioneer head unit/Sirius receiver with the truckputer if it all works together. Anyone tried it yet?

Thanks for all the hard work in putting together LinuxICE!!

Equalizer

superman279 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:28:13 GMT

I think nghost needs to support an eq. in my truck the audio doesn't sound very good because of this. I have tried installing many apps but i guess there is something with the 9.04 verison that doesnt allow this?

IONIdea using nGhost

tripzero — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:48:43 GMT

IONIdea is an embedded telecommunications company that has taken interest in the nGhost project. They've developed a pretty cool skin which you can download from their website. They also have submitted code to the project! Check them out here:

http://ionidea.ua/nghost/index.html

Black Sea Skin:

nghost freezes and pulse audio volume drops every reboot

thatguy666 — Sun, 16 May 2010 02:10:48 GMT

Hello,
I'm having major problems with nghost. First it freezes for up to several minutes on almost every action preformed. This leaves an unusable interface. At the same time icepanel works fine and without delay. I have a feeling this problem has to do with nscan locking the database. Why do you need to lock the database if assuming nscan is the only program that writes to it? If you just got rid of the spin lock I don't think there would be an issue. The second problem I'm having is pulse audio's volume will fall to 15% on every reboot.
Thanks

Media not found when added..

Rezern — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:44:57 GMT

Hi

As this is my first try with both Linux in general and linuxICE, it might just be an "input" error from my side :P

What I have understood is that the "music" folder in home directory is default for music and the same for videos??

When put here LICE won't detect them, think this should be detected automaticly?

Also tried to go into etc/nghost/nghost.conf, to change the folder for music. But I am not able to save it..

Can someone please put me in the right dirrection for getting my music to play atleast??

Thanks in advance :)

mplayer and videos

superman279 — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:20:09 GMT

i have an odd issue, having some issues playing videos. i changed the video directory so that my videos would show up in nghost, that was the first problem. i found that if i play a song then open up my video library, no videos are there. if i reboot and open the video library they are there but they will not play if i click on one of them. however, if i click on one of them to play, then reboot it will start the video when nghost initializes. while this video is playing, i have found out that if i close the mplayer movie window (there is also no right click for some reason) pretty much nothing else media wise will work. i have done a few things in the console, killed nghost and restarted it to see whats up with it. i found that if i kill nghost and restart it, the icepanel back button doesnt work, the others do though. this was a big problem for me trying to troubleshoot this because once i get into either music/video library i cant go to the other. so what could be causing mplayer to act funny? the console outputs something along the lines of

05/08/2010 22:16:55 PDT:ERROR - videoipc.cpp:doTime(363) - Failed to request time position from video player: Broken pipe

it just keeps repeating this right after i close the video and it wont show another one unless i kill nghost and restart it.

05/08/2010 22:16:51 PDT:ERROR - videoipc.cpp:doTime(363) - Failed to request time position from video player: Broken pipe
buffer: loadfile "/home/justin/Videos/The Pacific Pt. VIII.avi" 0
sizeof(58)
05/08/2010 22:16:52 PDT:WARNING - Player: Failed to play '/home/justin/Videos/The Pacific Pt. VIII.avi': videoipc.cpp:play(185) - Failed to load media: /home/justin/Videos/The Pacific Pt. VIII.avi
05/08/2010 22:16:52 PDT:ERROR - videoipc.cpp:doTime(363) - Failed to request time position from video player: Broken pipe

as you can see above, it played the first movie just fine, i closed it and it wouldnt play the second one. the movie works btw.

Difficulties with eGalaxTouch driver and VM70

jaystainbrook — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:29:55 GMT

Although ICETouch runs and seems to install the drivers just fine, when I reboot and run ICETouch again to calibrate the screen it doesn't recognize the VM70. The familiar eGalaxTouch program starts up but all the options are greyed out and the USB Touch Controller Icon has a big red X over it. VM70 is working fine in Windows so isn't a hardware problem. Any ideas?

MeeGOBD: Something slightly interesting

tripzero — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:44:18 GMT

Wrote a simple graphical indicator frontend using the MeeGoTouch framework and Nobdy.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csIKNDOCPZI[/media]

Also a neat little feature, it graphically shows you the maximum value you've reached on the indicators. This doesn't show up in the short video, so here's a screenshot:

It won't be available to use for a while. I need to package and stuff. Credit to malcom for writing an excellent obd library and also to chunky kibbles for his obdsim which I used in the video and testing.

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Do I need internet connection for Navit to work?

locs4dayz — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:27:20 GMT

Will Navit work without internet connection? How do I set destinations? How to add speech for turn by turn directions?

Thanks in advance!!!

LinuxICE2 and A2DP streaming from your phone:

tripzero — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:46:44 GMT

Freshly produced howto:

http://forums.openice.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=777

If you get this to work without having to upgrade, let me know.

Have fun!

Linuxice look

thatguy666 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:28:31 GMT

Hello, Is there a location where one can download the theme used in drivn'. I'm planning on making a new skin for Linuxice and would like to use the drivn' skin as a starting point. One of the main elements I'm looking for is the top panel. I know about the skin repo but that only contains the stock skin, trueice, and the broken revolution skin. Thanks for any help

"Baguio" (what will become Drivn) pre-alpha now with some MeeGo!!

tripzero — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:52:21 GMT

Yeah, I'm at it again...

http://archive.openice.org/cdimages/...2010-04-11.iso

This test image boots up to a prompt which you can then type:

"startx widgetsgallery"

which will then run the demo app. I tested this in a VM and it's pretty slow without hardware acceleration. If anyone tries this out on hardware let me know.

as more MeeGo stuff opens up, i'll add it to the images. Also, if you are running ubuntu Lucid (or soon will be after you upgrade) you can download libdui and dui-demos from the new OpenICE "Baguio" repo:

Code:

http://archive.openice.org/archive baguio main

cheers,

Touchscreen Calibration not responding!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:09:34 GMT

When I attempt to calibrate my touchscreen, my touch is not being detected. I have a Shark SHKDL070PM that I ordered off ebay. The touch function is perfect with Vista Business and XP Proffessional(my car PC has three OS's installed). How do I get it to calibrate on LinuxICE2.0???

Here's the monitor....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Sharing folders on a VM with LinuxICE

Bugbyte — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:54:14 GMT

Okay, I've got an instal of LinuxICE 2.0.1 running on a VM using Parallels on Mac OS 10.5. The hard drive is only 60 gigs, so I want to share all the music already loaded on the Mac with the LinuxICE vm machine.

To share the folders, you have to enable file sharing on the Mac for Windows (smb), install smbfs on LinuxICE (check) and restart the VM with LinuxICE on it. All done, but now I'm wondering exactly how I access a shared folder on LinuxICE. Ubuntu instruction talk about using the menu bar to connect to the I.P. of the Mac to identify folders but since it's LinuxICE, all I've got is nGhost.

What's the right procedure?

MeeGo UI Framework Demo

tripzero — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:28:00 GMT

This is a little demo app that comes with the UI framework. As you can see it's quite touchy and finger-ready. One of the cool things about it is that it compiles and runs on my desktop. I've even installed this app on my n900 and it runs fantastic on even low-powered devices.

Note that MeeGo is still in heavy development, so what you so now probably won't reflect how things will look later on.

The themes are CSS based so it's pretty skinable that way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgVTQG1qba

Linuxice 2.0.x gui fails to start

thatguy666 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:14:28 GMT

Hello,
I have installed Linuxice 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 on a Intel d945gclf2 and I have a slight issue. Everything appears to install properly but upon reboot the gui never loads on startup. This happens even after the first reboot. If I run startx, nghost, icepanel, and the matchbox panel all start properly. I have placed a script startx in the init.d directory and ran update-rc.d startx defaults. Now I am left with a screen that only contains the matchbox panel. The keyboard also no longer works and I do not have a ps2 keyboard available. Basically I'm left with a system where I can not fix or use anything. I would just like to know how to fix the boot process in linuxice. I have a feeling others are having this issue as well. Thanks

startx

#!/bin/bash

startx

nghost2 autostart issue

thatguy666 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:56:14 GMT

Hello,
I'm having a bit of a problem with nghost 2. Currently I'm running xbuntu 9.10 and I have installed libnghost and nghost from the backup repo at http://linuxice.lhsw.com/packages/stable/. I have built the database with nscan. I am able to run nghost from command line and it will appear but if I start nghost from a shortcut or if I place it in the autostart group it will start in the background(NOT as a demon). The only time I am able to see the nghost interface is during shutdown after the desktop has been killed. Is there any remedy to this situation? Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Howto] Proximity on LinuxICE2

tripzero — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:30:53 GMT

This is a quick howto on getting proximity running on LinuxICE2. You will need a LinuxICE2 machine and a desktop to do syncing with. You will also need to access a terminal with a keyboard ( in LinuxICE2 find this in Apps->TerminalEmulator->Terminal).

1 - get the dependencies:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev libgps-dev libqt4-dev build-essential

2- get and compile the source:

Code:

svn co https://linuxice.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/linuxice/packages/proximity

cd proximity

qmake

make

sudo make install

3- make it start up when LinuxICE2 boots:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/matchbox/session

add:

Code:

proximity -s -D &

like this:

4- edit your events!

Code:

mkdir ~/.proximity

cp /etc/proximity/events.xml ~/.proximity

mousepad ~/.proximity/events.xml

Edit to your likings. For my personal use, I copied my ssh key to my linux desktop and used rsync+ssh to do loginless syncs with my music directory. This is what I did:

on the carpc:

Code:

ssh-keygen

less ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

now copy and paste it to a new line in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on your desktop.

After you get your keys all set up, make a folder on your desktop that you want to sync to. Alternatively, you can always just point to your main media folder. My library is larger than I would care to have on my carpc, so i made a separate folder for syncing with the carpc in /home/kev/carpc/Music.

Now for the command. Add this to your wifi OnAdded event:

Code:



 -arvuz

 -e ssh

 192.168.1.20:/home/kev/carpc/Music>/arg>

 /home/kev/

Now, when you start the carpc up to leave, it'll initiate a sync. Also when you return back home, it'll also initiate a sync. However, when you stop the car, the carpc normally would turn off. This will interrupt the sync'ing process so to get around it, I added some checks.

First we edit the /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh file that controls what happens when the power off signal is sent to the system. The following code is added *before* the command to hibernate/shutdown/etc.

Code:

if [ -f /tmp/interrupt ]

then

exit 0

fi

next, add a command before the rsync command that creates the interrupt file which essentially tells the acpi system that we are in the middle of somthing important and not to "interrupt" us:

Code:



 /tmp/interrupt

After the rsync command, we want to cleanup and then initiate a shutdown/hibernate/suspend:

Code:



 /tmp/interrupt





 halt

This is not perfect yet. It will likely shutdown when you don't want it to. Alternatively, you can have it fire a notification (using the notify-send command) or something and you can wait until you see that and then manually shut it down. If anyone has a solution to the above I'm all ears. I think this really calls for some advanced conditional stuff in proximity where you can "program" using multiple events.

Hope that helps. have fun with proximity!

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eGalax no clicky bug.

tripzero — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:32:47 GMT

If you upgrade LinuxICE to 10.04 and install the egalax driver from the website, you will note that it adds "SkipClick" "1" to the egalax options in your xorg.conf. This makes it so it doesn't click which is the most bizarre default I've ever seen. Just comment it out to fix it.

cheers.

No hid touch controller found! Linux ICE2.0.1

michael063 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:25:18 GMT

Hi all!

subj......

eGalaxy detect /dev/event/input3 touchcontroller, but no callibrator, draw test failed, and xy axis....wrong...replaced.....cursor moved.....touch not work (X log error No hid touch controller found! )

Apps not showing up

DirtyTre — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:20:06 GMT

After somehow boinking my initial install, I decided to start from scratch.

I removed the pc, brought it inside, hooked it up to my desktop's PS and DVD drive & monitor. I then reinstalled from the DVD. Everything went smoothly. I transferred quite a bit of music to my ~/Music directory.

Today, I reinstalled the computer in the car. Hooked up my touchscreen etc, and a few things aren't working.

Touch screen isn't registering any input
nscan apparently isn't running as none of my music has showed up
Nothing shows up in the Apps menu.

I dont even know where to begin. Of course, I could always re-install again, but I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.

Album Artists & Compilations

DirtyTre — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:55:22 GMT

In an earlier thread, tripzero said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by tripzero

... In svn, nGhost even properly sorts by disc number and track number for multiple disc albums. And does the "right thing" with album artists for compilation albums. Thanks to samr7 for those patches! ....

What exactly is the "right thing"? I haven't moved my music to the carpc yet. I wanted to make sure all my id3 tags were correct, but how do I tag my compilations and mixtapes so I dont end up with tons of artists with only a few songs?

Something I noticed regarding Videos directory.

DirtyTre — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:39:54 GMT

I recently installed LinuxICE from the DVD. Ran setup and the directories inside ~/ were made. I was having problems with my videos not showing up, so I meddled around in my conf file. I noticed that the conf file pointed to a "Video" directory, but what really existed was "~/Videos". I changed it in my conf file and rebooted. I had to reboot a few times (not sure why), but they eventually showed up.

I just wanted to post this in case someone else doesn't catch this right away.

keyboard viewing trouble

michael063 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:10:34 GMT

Keyboard not hiding.... - [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JASGTHsoI[/media]

Ubuntu MID OS

GatorGolfer11 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:50:01 GMT

I found this link else where on mp3car.com, but I was wondering if anything that they did with this could be used in the LinuxICE development. I'm not much of a programmer otherwise I'd look into it myself. I saw a vid on youtube that showed nghost 3 using clutter. I don't know just thought it was cool.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile

Linux ICE 2 install issue on reboot

Bugbyte — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53:45 GMT

I've installed LinuxICE on a virtual machine on my Mac Mini using VM Ware. The installation worked okay but after using Apps-->Setup and then Apps-->Setup-->ICE Configuration when I restarted, I got a fatal error. that says something about error inserting fbcon (/lib/modules/1.2.6.28-17-generic/Kernel/drivers/video/console/fbcon.ko)

It then dumps me to the shell. Prior to that, the nGhost front end would launch and was working. Any ideas what might be the problem?

[Edit - this is related to video somehow. When I built the virtual machine, I checked the Linux 2.6.x option. Is that the right version? Also, there may be a compatibility mode I can use to 'downgrade' the virtual machine. I'm just not certain since it booted and worked prior to running the setup options.]

How exactly do I upgrade my LinuxICE2 install to 9.10 safely?

locs4dayz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:58:56 GMT

I am thinking about upgrading to 9.10, but only if it can be done without messing anything up. Took me a long time to get my install working properly(especially the usplash...as you already know)!!!!!

LinuxICE3 to become 'Drivn'

tripzero — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:35:43 GMT

OpenICE was always supposed to be a bunch of apps that fill in the current gaps for linux based carpcs. Maintaining a distro is hard and takes a lot of time and resources. We've been able to streamline the process a bit, but it's still not something that I think OpenICE developers are interested in doing long term.

Nextabyte, a long time sponsor of the project will be using OpenICE stuff to build a free distribution that would have been LinuxICE3 called 'Drivn'. Nextabyte is sponsoring the servers and web resources for this new distribution which lifts a lot of load off of myself and others who've been volunteering money and hardware (thanks Tidder!).

In summery, LinuxICE3 becomes known as Drivn and OpenICE won't be developing it anymore (only the underlying packages, ie nGhost, etc). Nextabyte will develop Drivn.

In other news, OpenICE 2.0 will be moving to the new MeeGo UI framework. I've started a ubuntu lucid based repository here:

Quote:

deb http://archive.openice.org/archive baguio main

Linux ICE 2.0.1 [xinit: connection to X server lost]

michael063 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:46:04 GMT

Trouble, when install....

>Could not loaded /lib/modules/2.6.28-17-Linuxice2/modules.dep

>Failed to allocate framebufer

>Is your VideRAM set too low?

What's wrong?

V1Connect - Valentine1 Integration

MattJackson86 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:24:40 GMT

For those that do not know the V1Connect is a hardware device that allows your pc to communicate with a Valentine1 radar detector. I thought I would post in this forum to bring awareness to the V1Connect development effort that has been taking place to bring support to LinuxICE.

The original thread is here: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/linu...ort-linux.html

Hopefully when the developers find the necessary time to complete this it will be apart of the LinuxICE installer and you will have the opportunity to use it. I just wanted to make you all aware of this effort and hope to see some of you using the plugin when it becomes available.

LinuxICE 2.0.1 Released!

tripzero — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:39:02 GMT

This is mainly a bug fix release, but it contains a number of new features and improvements. Thanks to all the contributors from this forum that made suggestions or complaints that directly lead to the improvements and fixes. Good on ya mate!

Release announcement and download links:

http://wiki.openice.org/index.php?ti...2.0.1_Released

Install it in about 10 minutes video:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfaPfyKges[/media]

No reaction to powerbtn press

nasa — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:46:27 GMT

Howdy,

For some reason I am having trouble getting linuxice to shutdown when it receives a powerbtn event. Using xev, I noted that keycode 124 (XF86Poweroff) is being seen - yet nghost doesn't start to shutdown. Where should I be looking to troubleshoot this?

Eventually, I would like to get tuxonice working -- so if that plays apart (I have updated to the kernel specified in another thread) please keep that in mind. Thanks in advance,

Nasa

Questions from my first LinuxICE install.

GatorGolfer11 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:40:21 GMT

I've watched almost all of the videos posted for LinuxICE, and after my install I feel like I'm missing something. However, I am sure that this can be attributed to my noob ignorance, which leads to my questions/concerns:

Note: I apologize in advance if some of this is mentioned/answered elsewhere.

- What file formats are supported by ICE? Most of my music is in the itunes format(.m4a), and when I plugged in a usb key with some songs on it nothing is visible. I can see the song through the file manager, and I copied the file to the music folder(assuming that's where the library tab looks) and still nothing.

- While in file manager I was able to open and play the file using mplayer. However, as mention in another post, pulseaudio defaulted to mute. I haven't tried the fix yet, so i'll edit when I do.

- I tried inserting a cd, but when I select the cd tab the button animation flashes and nothing happens. I know the drive works because I used it to install.

- The network manager indicates that I am connected via wire, but when I open the browser nothing loads.

- Can the button size of the osk be enlarged? I have to use a stylus type on it.

-Also all of the setup stuff that was under apps has disappeared. Is that only available during install or can i get it back so I can recalibrate the touch screen?

- I've seen videos of the driven app switcher and nGhost 3. Are either or both of those available, and how would I go about installing them?

Thanks in advance,

GatorGolfer11

icepanel skin update

tripzero — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:48:39 GMT

I've made some improvements to the skin in icepanel. The buttons were a pain to use so I got rid of them. Now you have a big fat volume slider. I hope the new layout makes everyone happier:

Hacking the Zotac ION

tripzero — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:49:59 GMT

I fired up the zotac ion to make some new videos for the upcoming LinuxICE 2.0.1.0 (get it? 2010? :P) release. Alas, I'm running into some issues. Here's a few:

Wireless:
The driver that comes with the 2.6.28-17-linuxice2 kernel for wireless is crap. It just plain doesn't work. So here's how to fix it (yes I'll get some packages created to make this easy):

1 - apt-get install build-essential linux-headers
2 - wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...-02-01.tar.bz2

3 - cd compate-wireless-2010-02-01/ && make && sudo make install

4 - reboot

Weird Recovery Mode Issue!!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:12:30 GMT

I have just sucessfully installed Frostwire, but have to run it from terminal cause the option in the apps menu won't launch it. Thought maybe I could use the Recovery Mode to fix this issue, but for some strange reason my Recovery Mode is not working. I am unable to scroll to the option of choice with the arrow keys. My system is running OK but should I ever need Recovery Mode this problem prevents me from using it. I started to run fsck from the root terminal, but a warning came up stating that running it on a mounted system may cause severe system damage, so I aborted. Any idea what the problem may be anyone???

Thanks in advance!!!

Recomended GPS Receiver For Navit?

locs4dayz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:15:22 GMT

Kev...could you recommend a suitable GPS receiver to use with Navit for best results?

Thanks in advance!!!

Any Help Links for Usplash or Xsplash!!

locs4dayz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:16:12 GMT

If anyone knows of any links where I could get detailed help to get either usplash or xsplash to run properly on my system please post them. I use a AC to DC converter with my installation, so I always cold boot my system(which is why I am so determined to get my boot splash working correctly... the scripts showing is not visually appealing!)

Thanks for any help in advance!!!

Here is my current usplash...

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LinuxICE Startup Process

tripzero — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:00:32 GMT

I'm starting a thread to discuss the LinuxICE startup process compared to other systems. This is not a "mine's better than yours" thread. Instead, I hope to discuss why LinuxICE boots faster and what the trade-offs/sacrifices are that you will have to live with if you do choose to use LinuxICE.

1) Grub, grub bootstraps the kernel
2) Kernel init - kernel extracts itself off disk and loads itself into memory

3) Kernel scans hardware and then loads drivers for all devices that it has drivers for.

4) init - this is handled by "upstart" which is an event based init daemon capable of concurrently spawning boot processes. The following relevant processes are started by upstart:
- udev - defines rules for devices when they are detected.
- dbus - facilitates communication between system services like udev, devicekit and others
- devicekit/hal - hardware abstraction layer so
- gpsd - handles multiple gps client applications (similar to xport on windows)
- pulseaudio - handles sound
- network-manager - handles the network/wifi stuff

5) X - the X Window server will start and load multiple "session" scripts.

6) LinuxICE session script - This is the LinuxICE session. It spawns the following:
- nscan
- nghost
- icepanel
- obdgpslogger
- window manager
- gnome-keyring
- nm-applet - ui for network-manager

7) nGhost - When nGhost starts, here's what get's loaded:
A) initialization of the gfx engine and window creation.
B) initialization of "screen", skin parsing and loading from xml files
C) loading the main screen images into memory
D) Event engine initialization, initializes player, loads the database
E) Player starts playing music
F) Plugins are loaded:
1) ncarinfo - obdII display
2) ng2dbus - exposes nghost's event system over dbus
3) nvoicesynth - text to voice plugin
4) nweather - weather plugin
G) Main event loop entered.
H) nghost tells nscan to watch the media (usually rescans)

You should now be ready to go with media, obd, network (including 3g connections and bluetooth), navigation weather, and some other niceties.

LinuxICE2 3 week dev marathon - Requests Open

tripzero — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:55:22 GMT

If you are a user of LinuxICE, or want to be, and are missing that "killer feature", now is the time to speak up. I'll be asking the wife and kids to let me stay up some late nights to get some killer plugins developed for LinuxICE2 starting next week. Hopefully, if you are a developer of sorts (all languages apply), you'll use this list to chose a feature and nail it down. Not familiar with the nghost plugin system? I'll also spend this three week period hand holding anyone who wants to dev a plugin for LinuxICE/nGhost.

Here's what I've got on my mind to do. Please help me decide which features you want most:

- Make nscan "just work"
- Make obdgpslogger/plug-and-play just work
- Vehicle efficiency indicators in NCarInfo ( green == good, red == bad)
- VOne plug (for the valentine 1 radar scanner
- OSDash client and UI (for something)
- Improve documentation on the website.

If you are a dev, these may be a good something to try to make a plugin for:

- m4-atx nghost plugin (code exists, just need UI and plugin)
- Boomzbox plugin
- Any OSDash web service
- Create a skin 100%

Some crazy ideas that make huge changes to nGhost:

- Convert graphics engine/event system to use QGraphics
- General push for more speed and stability in nGhost's core
- Make another frontend work on LinuxICE (including packaging): RevFE and/or OpenMobile

If you want to tackle a feature, let me know. If you would like to see me tackle any of these feature for the marathon, let me know. I'll do as many as I can depending on what you want and the effort involved.

Let's make LinuxICE awesome!

Does LinuxICE support kinetic scrolling

nasa — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:39:42 GMT

Title says it all....

If the answer is yes, please let me know how to enable it -- as I have :noidea:

Thanks

Nasa

im converting from winxp to + riderunner to linuxice

veiloctane — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:51:44 GMT

hi guys new here just trying this out hopefully i can have a full carpc with linux running this is what i have running so far

EEEPC 701
Windows XP Pro
Roadrunner
freefone 1.4 Alpha
Bluetooth Handsfree utility
Garmin Mobile PC -- currently using a blutooth reciever from my mobile using extgps
Bybyte Double-Din LCD Frame 629 LCDFR629
Directed DMHD-1000 HDRADIO (with mitchjs HD Radio PC Interface cable)

i have downloaded openice live cd + maps and seems to run ok on my eeepc

questions:
what do i need to get HD radio to work with openice?
does the built in navit suite support bluetooth gps recievers?
is there a gui bluetooth management utility built in to the OS?

Where is the GDM login timeout file???

locs4dayz — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:10:28 GMT

I am having a problem with my system automatically timing out after 10 seconds. Where is the file that controls this behavior so I can remove the timeout. When I was looking for another file I once stumbled upon it, but don't remember where. If I find this file, I can fix my problem!!!

Thanks in advance!!!

Found the answer to my usplash problem Kev...How do I impliment???

locs4dayz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:56:57 GMT

I believe this is the solution, but am not 100% certain how to make it happen, so I need your help...

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-76309.html

Problem is I can't open usplash_write to do the edit. Is there an editable usplash_write somewhere else I don't know about???

Anyone know how to extend usplash timer?

locs4dayz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:47:49 GMT

I've think I have figured out what may be wrong with my usplash on startup. I think it is timing out to early. Anyone know how to properly extend the startup timer for usplash?

Thanks in advance!!!!

Nweather Question?

locs4dayz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:54:57 GMT

Does the nweather.py shut down after a period of time? I've noticed in my install that it doesn't always remain running. It always starts up right, and is broadcasting correctly. Yet if I go online(usually here to monitor posts or to check my emails), or am doing other things for an extended period of time, then go back and re-check my weather, its not consistently running? Maybe this bug is isolated to my machine only...I seem to have the weirdest issues with mine that no one else seems to have. Anyone else having or noticed the same thing???

Problems All Over!!!

locs4dayz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:25:30 GMT

I got so frustrated with the usplash issue that I broke down and did a complete re-installation of LinuxICE2(took the whole day to do it). Now I got more than just the one problem(aggravating!!!!!!!!).

The list is as follows...

PARTIALLY RESOLVED: 1) Usplash still no change(should have tried it before updating since it worked in my previous install before updating the kernel).

RESOLVED: 2) Can't get my grub image back up(I saved all my images from my earlier install...was perfect before!).

RESOLVED: 3) Can't get nweather to update my location(even though I changed the zip code in nweather.py, it keeps showing the weather for the default location...also was perfect before!).

4) Still having problems watching youtube videos unless I download to my HD(I can live without resolving this problem...but would be nice to get this fixed).

I'm sure that its not me. I did everything by the book. Any idea what the problem is? These are the only issues I have, but they are bugging me(sort of like if you found a ding or scratch on your week old brand new Benz Coupe). Hopefully These issues can or will be resolved so I can finally be content with my install.

Thanks for any help in advance!!!

UPDATE: Problem #2 has been resolved!

UPDATE: Problem #1 is half resolved. My usplash is working properly on power down. When my system 1st boots up it starts usplash from sda4(my swap area), which always starts but doesn't remain up for the entire boot up sequence. Why?... I don't know. So I edited my menu1st default to always resume from there(it was resuming from sda5). Just got to get the power up side to run completly now...yayyyy!

kEV...Do you think it may be timing out too early?

UPDATE: Problem #3 has been resolved!

Youtube Videos Over Internet Won't Play!!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:32:00 GMT

I can't watch youtube videos on the INTERNET. I have the latest flash plugins installed...Still won't stream the videos. I don't want to download to my HD every time i want to view a video. Any suggestions to what the problem may be???

Using Firefox 3.5

Need to edit init.d!!!

locs4dayz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:32:48 GMT

I have been trying to get my usplash to stop dropping to a shell during start up and shut down. What do I need to edit in my init.d to make this happen?

Here is what my init.d looks like...

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: usplash
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Integrate usplash into the boot process
# Description: This script deals with some awkward details of integrating
# the userspace bootsplash screen into the boot process. On
# start it stops the usplash daemon (counter-intuitive, but
# usplash was already started in the initramfs); on stop, it
# calls usplash_down (unless usplash is already running).
### END INIT INFO
#
# The usplash script makes sure that usplash exits at the end of
# the boot sequence and re-run the console-screen.sh script to make
# sure that the console fonts are actually set
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg .
# Modified for Debian
# by Ian Murdock .
#
# Version: @(#)skeleton 1.9 26-Feb-2001 miquels@cistron.nl
#

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/sbin/usplash
NAME=usplash
DESC="Userspace bootsplash utility"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

usplash_down() {
# first some sanity checks if we actually have usplash on the system
#
# check if usplash is runing and if it does, exit it
# then re-run console-screen.sh because it can't set console-fonts
# properly while the screen is in graphics mode
#
# also check if we are ended up in console 8. This means that
# no gdm/kdm/xdm was started (otherwise we would be on vt7).
# It happens when e.g. usplash timed out
if type setupcon >/dev/null 2>&1; then
CONSOLE_SCREEN=
elif [ -x /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh ]; then
CONSOLE_SCREEN="/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh start"
else
CONSOLE_SCREEN=
fi
if type usplash >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
( pidof usplash > /dev/null || [ "$(fgconsole 2>/dev/null)" = "8" ] ); then
# Clear VT 8 of any console messages
clear >/dev/tty8

#ask usplash to go away
usplash_write quit

#wait until it is really gone or kill it if it dosn't exit
i=0
while pidof usplash > /dev/null; do
i=$(($i + 1))
if [ $i -gt 100 ]; then
kill -9 `pidof usplash`
break
fi
sleep 0.1
done

# reset all our virtual consoles, yay!
if [ "$CONSOLE_SCREEN" ]; then
$CONSOLE_SCREEN
fi
if [ "$(fgconsole 2>/dev/null)" = "8" ] && [ "$DO_NOT_SWITCH_VT" != "yes" ]; then
chvt 1
fi
fi
}

case "$1" in
start)
#usplash_down
;;
stop)
SPLASH=true
if [ -f /proc/cmdline ] ; then
for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
case $x in
nosplash*)
SPLASH=false
;;
splash*)
SPLASH=true
;;
esac
done
fi

if [ "$SPLASH" = "true" ] ; then
pidof usplash > /dev/null || usplash_down
usplash_write "TIMEOUT 15"
fi
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

Help!!! Want Usplash to stay up until Login!!!

locs4dayz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:26:26 GMT

I have searched everywhere without success. I want my usplash to keep running start up sequence until X server login starts and to start shut down sequence when X server exits for shut down. How do I accomplish this? My system is fine other than this annoyance!

How Do I Install Sopcast???

locs4dayz — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:12:10 GMT

I'm trying to install Sopcast to my instalation so I can watch internet Tv on my carpc. I need to know how to do this with it also having the TV guide...Help???

Google Earth not working correctly!!!

locs4dayz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:53:42 GMT

How do I get google earth to work correctly in LinuxICE2? Not showing the whole screen in the window!!!

Usplash dropping to shell!

locs4dayz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:51:49 GMT

My usplash is back to dropping to a shell after kernel upgrade...How do I resolve this issue?

Video files not detected!!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:55:52 GMT

I edited the nghost.conf file the same way I did the Music file...pointed it to the Videos folder. But my file is not detected(put just one video in just to see if I can get this all setup before I bring more over). Video files are bigger than mp3 files, so I thought I'd start small(1 file...lol!). Any way, how do I fix this issue?

How do I get mplayer to keep my setings on startup?

locs4dayz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:14:15 GMT

Think I may have solved my playlist problem....Just one thing...

Every time a new song starts I have to turn up the mplayer in my pulse audio volume controls, How do I remedy this issue?

Thanks in advance!!!

LinuxICE 2.0.1.0 preview [with Video]

tripzero — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:23:08 GMT

A couple weeks after the 2.0 release and we've pushed over 400Gigs of data! Thanks to everyone who is seeding the torrent. There have been many reports of some issues in the 2.0 image. Some are fixable via update, but some aren't as automatic. For this reason, I will push out a bugfix version of 2.0 that contains all the updates and bug fixes that have gone over the past month. This will be called 2.0.1. What'll be new:

* New kernel: linux-image-linuxice2

If you've updated since installing 2.0, your awesome tuxonice enabled kernel was likely replaced with ubuntu's non-awesome kernel. This breaks hibernation and sleep functionality. To fix this, we will release a new *-linuxice2 kernel. This new kernel has the latest tuxonice with LZO compression enabled by default for super fast resume times. It should just work.

* No more iceinstall

We will be adding several linuxice2 specific versions of ubuntu packages to the repo to replace iceinstall. You will still have to login once, but after you have successfully done that, it'll autologin from then onward. You don't have to run any post-install app to "make things work" anymore.

* Smarter shutdown.

LinuxICE, if it can't hibernate, will just shutdown. Simple as that. This all happens automatically when it traps the powerbutton signal from your smart powersupply.

For existing users:

All of these updates will be available to you before we produce any images. The worst you'll have to do is install the linuxice2 kernel by hand -which is trivial.

This will be a new installation image (DVD) for everyone else.

Preview Video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfaPfyKges[/media]
?wmode=Opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Ribs skin

tripzero — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:15:24 GMT

Ribs did a great job of creating a new skin for nGhost. I'll package this up and put it in the repo, but for now, here's a teaser:

possible nweather issue

govee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:01:28 GMT

The icons are now there but I just noticed no weather data is there (It does reflect the correct location). I thought for sure there was before but I may be mistaken. I took a look at nwether.py at it appears it stores the xml dump from weather.com at in /tmp/weather.xml. I looked at the file and there is a current dump with the corect time stamp, location, and forecast data. It would appear then the data is not being dropped into the weather screen. Anything I can check or do at my end? I hate always being a taker!!!:peace:

pulseaudio defaults to mute at startup

govee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:45:37 GMT

I am not sure why but pulseaudio is always muted at startup. Any way to get the default changed to "unmuted"?

LinuxICE2 Background Images

locs4dayz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:30:34 GMT

Here are some background images i made for my system.....Get them here!!!!

Here is what they look like....

Attached Images

Attached Files

Importing Music and Video Files!!!

locs4dayz — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:33:44 GMT

My LinuxICE2 install does'nt see my Windows partitions(I'm Tri-Booting), so I can't mount them and import my music and videos from them. How do I remedy this issue Kev000???Govee???Anyone???:ranger:

LinuxICE2 ICEPanel Icons Updated Versions !!!

locs4dayz — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:37:12 GMT

Here are the ICEPanel icons I made for my system. Just needed to add some color to the panel!!!

You can get them here!!!!!

The Black-N-Gold versions are now available(see post down below)

Here Is a screenshot of what the Blue buttons look like.....

Attached Images

Attached Files

LinuxICE2_ICEPanel-Icons.tar.gz (55.8 KB)

Weather Icons missing

govee — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:19:24 GMT

I noticed when running the weather plugin that there were no icons. The nweather.py calls out for the weather icons to be in "usr/local/share/nghost/vistique/screens/images/weather/". There is no folder "weather" in "images".

playlist support?

govee — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:17:01 GMT

Does LinuxICE support importing playlists from other sources. If so what format m3u, asx,....?

LinuxICE2 Menu Icons

locs4dayz — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:37:21 GMT

Thanks to my contact Govee who provided me with directions...I was able to edit my menu icons. I came up with some pretty nice ones to go with my theme. So good that I felt it would only be right to make icon packages to share with whomever would like to spice up their install also. Hopefully Kev000 will like them also enough to include them in an updated iso image of LinuxICE2 along with the Usplash!!!

You can get them here(6 per package)...and don't forget to get the Usplash theme also(In case you missed it)!!!!!

Here is a screenshot of what they look like( they only look rough in this image because I had to use Windows paint to create this screenshot, and it doesn't handle the images format well)...

Comments are welcome!!!!

Attached Images

Attached Files

LinuxICE2-Menu-Icons.1.tar.gz (150.9 KB)
LinuxICE2-Menu-Icons.2.tar.gz (157.4 KB)

LinuxICE2 Usplash

locs4dayz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:36:08 GMT

I tried installing the usplash Kev000 made for linixice, but the image was too small to see(at least on my machine). So I have been trying to make a new one!

It includes a thin line progress bar like ubuntu 9.04 except it is blue(can't show it in action cause I haven't gotten it to install yet). Can't figure out why its not working(still a newbee)????

Any help will be appreciated...Thanks in advance!!!!
Here is a Screenshot of the image and a copy of the file I made...

Attached Images

Attached Files

LinuxICE2_Usplash-Theme.tar.gz (108.5 KB)

Now I know you dont sleep

govee — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:30:46 GMT

I just read some of the threads on OSDASH. I have now confirmed you do not sleep. :ranger:

nweather.py bug,,,maybe

govee — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:16:55 GMT

I noticed the zip was incorrect for the weather pull so I went to /etc/nghost/weather.conf and changed it there. I performed a restart and still the zip was wrong. I then opened /usr/bin/nweather.py and noticed on line 54 that the config file is listed as below:

Code:

CONFIG FILE = "weather.conf"

I changed it to:

Code:

CONFIG FILE = "/etc/nghost/weather.conf"

This brought up the correct zip code.

I said maybe on the "bug" as I am not sure if a complete run of "nghost" in term would get the correct zip enetered. Whenever I run "nghost" I get a boat load of failures and it never completes and I have to close the terminal window.

connect to a network server

govee — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:07:01 GMT

I have all my media on a server in my house and I am using LinuxICE to provide a media portal in my master bath. Why not something like Mythbuntu you ask... The touchscreen UI that folks that are trying to get this kind of capability in a car is waaaaaaaay ahead of those that only think in terms of nothing less the 24" of screen.

I have been watching the maturization of LinuxICE for at least a year and i love what you are doing, from the UI to the efficient code work. This has everything from a app perspective that I need. :hail:

Commercial over.

By the way I saw your worklog and I was wondering when you sleep?

can I change resolution?

govee — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:42:53 GMT

I have a 15" touchscreen and would like to change the resolution to 1024 x 768. Is there dependencies that would cause things to get borked?

Darn Usplash!!!!!Help!!!!!!!!!!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:50:45 GMT

The linuxice usplash is too small to see...How do I fix it? Ready to say F@#$ it and use the regular ubuntu usplash...At least it works!!!!

LinuxICE Usplash issue!!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:34:03 GMT

I just installed the linuxice usplash theme without any problems. Now my system no longer drops to a shell. But the image is really small...so small I can barely see it. How do I enlarge it. Do I need to use gimp or something? Thanks in advance!!!:confused:

How to install Splashy...Help!!!

locs4dayz — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:41:40 GMT

I have finally gotten LinuxICE2 to boot up without having to type "exit" to get it to resume booting on my machine(using a via m10000 mobo with sata hard drive) after it drops to a shell by permanently adding "rootdelay=60" at the end of my kernal line using gedit. The problem I still have and need to solve is how do I get splashy to install? I keep getting an error 1(whatever that means...new to linux). Any help will be greatly appreciated...Thanks in advance!!!:confused::confused:

messing with ice.. and getting frozen?

chronoglass — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:33:17 GMT

These are probably all nghost issues, would i be correct?

Tales from a N00b:
so i've tried this on a few different laptops i have lieing around, because honestly i just assumed i was doing something wrong. But i seem to always get the same result.

Situation #1: *worked around*
linuxice loads up fine from the livecd
I select an option (we'll say gps)
then when i try to go "home" nothing happens
when i close the window i get a screen that looks like the "network connection" icon really blown up.. and i lose the option to do anything except open the on screen keyboard, and the file manager. but no matter what when i close that window it goes back to this network configuration screen.

This behavior stopped once I installed it, AND ran the configuration.

After configuration the screen stays blank for a moment or two then reverts to the home screen.

Situation #2 *still looking for workaround*
after installing and running the config some screens will get hung in a state where you seem to be unable to return to the home screen.
I've had this happen on the gpsd plugin
as well as the apps section

in SOME cases you can open another app that has an "x" to close the window (navit/explorer) from the bottom bar and after closing the screen will auto refresh to the home screen. Other times I've noticed that I can then click the back button after closing the screen but it will not go "home" on it's own

If i click (what im guessing is the) next window button, you get back to that happy network window from above. with no way out that I've found as of yet.

Skype for LinuxICE

tripzero — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:07:01 GMT

Download/Installation instructions here:

https://developer.skype.com/MidSkype...5617c6afe93ede

ELO Touchscreen

govee — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:27:21 GMT

I have installed LinuxIce2 on a system with w 15" ELO Touchscreen and when I ran ICETouch I was prompted to input which type of input the screen was using and I entered "3" for usb. When the terminal closed nothing really changed and I get a warning during restart that there is "no usb event touch controller found". Also if I rerun ICETouch I see a properties screen for egalax which has usb with a big red "X" strike through. The touchscreen does work when I touch the screen it responds. unfortunately when I touch the lower left, the mouse is moved to the upper right!:lol:

Running "gksudo calibrator" resulted in an awkward 30 second silence then a return to the the prompt?

Is the egaglax appropriate for the ELO? I am making this with a 15" screen and the ELO screens can be had for a song on ebay.

Thanks

Can you guys take an in car video of LinuxICE2?

Tengis — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:06 GMT

Im waiting for my second ESATA case and hard drive to come in the mail so I can play around with other front ends without removing the carputer from the car. Im wanting to test this out. Can you guys throw up a video of it working in your car? Just want to see what it looks like in motion.

LinuxICE feature requests

locs4dayz — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:16:35 GMT

First and foremost...great job on the LinuxICE project so far. At this rate it will be one of the top frontends...Excuse me...The top CarPC OS out there by this time next year.

I do however have a few ideas on what LinuxICE3 should have:
1)More support for VIA based systems!!!!!!!!!!!
2)The ability to change the background image to suit individual preferences
3)An optional bootsplash screen that can be chosen to install in the advanced
option tab of step 7 of the install process
4)The ability to enable transparency for the buttons(so you can see your chosen
background image...that would be sooo sweet)
5)The ability to change your screen resolution for selected windows like Carbon
and Navit
Just a few ideas to think about on the next release...Keep up the good work Kev000 and crew!!!!!!!

RC 1 issues

jswalls110 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:29:39 GMT

I have reinstalled RC1 several times, and have found the following issues:

1. During install, about 82% through I get the system message "An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the CD have failed" I only have the Ok (the only choice) button available. The INstalling box says Configuring apt, then the percentage, then Scanning the CD-ROM at the bottom of the box. This CD was burned at 8X. After clicking ok, it goes to scanning the mirror. I have logged on to my network before I started install.

2. I always have to enter my WEP or WAP password (depending on which network I am on) when starting up. I never get a prompt for a keyring to enter a blank to stop this.

3. Still the problem with the screen being over sized, on both the install and installed Linuxice. I understand this is fixed.

4. NSCAN seems to not work. In ps -ef I have a nscan [defunct], which means I think that it died. I also have an active nscan. Or at least it looks active. Nothing in DMESG or /var/log/messages to indicate what is happening. Anyplace else I can look, or debugging I can run? Upon a reboot, it again picks up the first Directory, the first album and the songs in the album. Nothing else on subsequent reboots.

5. ICEconfigure seems to hang. It gets to (the line is only 1/2 visible like superscript) so it's hard to read) "[box]1.24f[box]l4i[box]l0" and just stops. there may be more, but it's cut off on the right side also. I let it sit for 10 minutes with no change the second time. If I go back in try to do it again, it tells me Activating tuxc. Nothing different if I do it again. I have to login via command line everytime also.

6. The system does not detect my Lilliput 8" touchscreen. The video portion appears to work correctly, however the touchscreen will not calibrate. I have reversed axes, and when I touch the calibration targets, it ignores it. There is much out there about how to configure, but nothing that appears to work in 9.04 Ubuntu. I have the internal video screen off, only working on external output.

My machine is a Dell Inspiron 2500 P3 900MHz, 512 MB RAM, 60GB IDE drive, DVDROM, Intel chipset (e81X? series).

I hope these are helpful and what you are looking for in testing.

Jeff

Upgrade Issue

jswalls110 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:38:53 GMT

Did you do an upgrade in the past 2 hours or so (it's now 2:35 PM 12/7/09)?

I did an upgrade and a dpkg-reconfigure, and now I lost the top of the main panel (icepanel?), the part that shows the network connection.

The network icon is now on another page and HUGE, takes almost the full page.

Did I do something wrong?

Jeff

First questions

jswalls110 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:30:21 GMT

First, using the RC1 distro installed on my hard drive, are the 3 plugins there? nCarInfo.py, nWeather.py and nGpsd.py? I did a find, and found nothing. Are they on the CD, or do I need to wait for LI2 next week?

Second, how do I update the Audio Library? I have 4 directories with albums in each. The Library only finds the first directory, and the first album in that directory.

Third, is there a way to stop the audio?

I am an Ubuntu noob, coming from XP and Fedora, so excuse some obvious questions. A link would be as helpful, to save typing.

Thanks.

Jeff

Kernel perimeters

jswalls110 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:01:08 GMT

Kev,

I am trying to test Linuxice on an old Dell Inspiron 2500. I need to add pci=noapci to the kernel loading.

Is there a way to do this? As far as I can tell, Linuxice loads and doesn't pause at all to add any parameters to the loading kernel.

I have tried to compile ng3 on Ubuntu 9.10, and can't. No matter what I do, it can't find QTPhonon.

This is not optimal, but money for a p4 or better just isn't there with 2 kids in college.

Any way to do this?

Jeff

LinuxICE 2.0 Final Release

tripzero — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:47:36 GMT

It's coming...

http://wiki.openice.org/index.php?ti...xICE_2.0_Final

OpenICE in the news.

tripzero — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:45:19 GMT

My wife pointed this out to me: http://www.computerworlduk.com/commu...1242&blogid=14

LinuxICE2 RC1

tripzero — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:14:51 GMT

Special thanks to those who filed bugs and posted input on the forums.

New stuff:

- improved notification UI
- new notification during system updates

Fixed stuff:

- fixed icetouch script (see "known issues").
- fixed navit config
- fixed a bazillion other minor/major bugs.

icetouch update notification:

Original Release announcement:
http://forums.openice.org/viewtopic....8&p=3767#p3767

Known issues:

Running icetouch after installation will always report "no controller found". bug 58

Testing out NG3

nasa — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:20:50 GMT

Hi,

I have downloaded NG3 (downloaded the tar.gz for sourceforge -- as I couldn't get svn to work) after installing clutter (all of it) and compiling the source (fixing one compile bug, to be mentioned later) I have things installed on my system in my /opt folder. I was wondering, how do you start the application? I haven't played with clutter before - so if I have to start something there I am unaware.

Also, what is the correct svn command to download nghost?

The compile error I ran into was with NClutterActor.cpp --
it has #include (or something similar)
is should be as the configure script has -I /usr/local/lib/qt4/include/QtCore/

Nasa