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quasifilmie

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Registered: 2011-10-27

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Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

My dad just bought a the Zotac Zbox Plus Nano AD10 and wants to install linux on it. Just wondering  and hoping that anyone has had any luck installing linux on it -- specifically arch linux. Would like some input before we actually open the thing up.

Here at the specs

AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 1.6 GHZ

AMD M1 Chipset

AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics (HDMI Display Output)

2 GB DDR3 Memory

360 GB HDD

7.1 HD Audio

I want to use Gnome or XFCE with XBMC and MythTV. Other distros that I would consider are Ubuntu, Fedora and Slackware.

I am particularly worried about the graphics card and whether or not the remote will work. I know the reciever is USB Extended IR.

Edit: I am reading through the ArchWiki.

Last edited by quasifilmie (2012-03-11 19:50:12)

karol

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

Have a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136873

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

I do not really know why you would want a DE/WM on that thing, unless it will have to double as a desktop.

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quasifilmie

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

Thanks karol, you have better searching skills than me @ B I do not care about the desktop environment really, I want a simple display manager like lxdm to launch directly into XBMC.

Edit: @ .:B:. looks like you have the same model as me? Any major problems? Remote work well or even at all?

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

I am using my Logitech Harmony with it, works just fine.

If it's only gonna run xbmc, you do not need any login manager (which is what lxdm is ). Nor do you need a DE or a WM. You can just set up autologin and autostart xbmc. That's how I do it, instructions can be found either in the wiki or in threads on this forum. You don't need anything fancy - besides Xbmc with xvba support of course .

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quasifilmie

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

Well I might use some programs like Brasero and Firefox so a simple DE would probably be useful. I want to configure lxdm to go in xbmc and then if I close xbmc, I have a decent plain desktop.

quasifilmie

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

So I have arch insalled and have two issues. I setup my lircd.conf manually using irrecord -d /dev/lirc0 /tmp/my_remote.  It worked. Using irw, all of my buttons work. However, I cannot use the remote with xbmc. I am guessing I have missed a configuration step. I enabled allow remote control to send key presses and still no luck.  Second problem is wireless. Wireless is detected and connects to the wpa2 network but I can access any network location or web address. No errors in dmesg. So when the wireless didn't work after installation (gnome3 for now and networkmanager) I rebooted and wireless still did not work. Left computer for ten minutes and magically wireless worked with normal speed 50 mb down. Rebooted computer and since then wireless will not work.

quasifilmie

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Re: Zotac Zbox Plus Nano Linux Compatibility

Wireless is working fine. The problem is that the wireless says it is connected in networkmanager but it actually takes another 4-6 minutes before I can actually ping google.com or do normal browsing. Anyway I am not worried about that. My remote worked yesterday somewhat. Irw was giving output and irrecord was done successfully -- not anymore.  I have the lircd daemon in rc.conf but lirc_serial module wont load. I am also loading mceusb as the remote is mce. I forget the message at startup, I think it was an address error. But when the computer is fully started and I manually load the module I get ERROR: could not insert 'lirc_serial': Device or resource busy. How do I know if my remote is connected to ttyS0 (COM1).

Here is the output of ls /sys/class/rc/rc0

input7  lirc0  power  protocols  subsystem  uevent

So I took lirc0 and per the wiki did this command: ls -l /dev/input/lirc0 with sudo  and got this

ls: cannot access /dev/input/lirc0: No such file or directory

Would really appreciate any help to get this remote working. Here is my /etc/rc.conf

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#
# See 'man 5 rc.conf' for more details
#

# LOCALIZATION
# ------------
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="America/Toronto"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
LOCALE=
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"
USECOLOR="yes"

# HARDWARE
# --------
MODULES=(mceusb lirc_serial)
USEDMRAID="no"
USEBTRFS="no"
USELVM="no"

# NETWORKING
# ----------
HOSTNAME=zbox

interface=
address=
netmask=
broadcast=
gateway=

NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

# DAEMONS
# -------
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus networkmanager crond bluetooth lircd gdm)

I am using gdm for now until all is working and then I will have the zbox autolaunch xbmc.

Edit: Bluetooth now in rc.conf.

Edit 2: Remote is now somewhat functioning again regardless of reboot. irw always work with every button but xbmc will not work.

Last edited by quasifilmie (2012-03-12 18:48:56)