sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/evo230
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I hope this is more stable!

• Graphics (Intel GMA HD Graphics)
• Wlan
• Lan
• Webcam, tested in Skype
• Touchpad and trackpoint

Works with some tweaking

• USB was not working out of the box, but after an kernel update (to 2.6.32-22 64 bit) it started working
• There was not sound out of the box, but a work-around is found at launchpad.net

Not tested

• Fingerprint reader
• Card reader
• CD/DVD writer
• e-SATA

Updated 13 June
USB do not work, unless some device is attached when the computer i booting :(

Uninstall the repository version of flash

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer nspluginwrapper

Get the Adobes Linux version from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html and install it:

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Restart Firefox

Update: June 6th
I have switched back to the "Ubuntu" Flash, because I was unable to use pages from ipapercms.dk:

sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

The flickering seems to disappear when all the fancy visual effects are disabled.

Start by finding you current kernel

uname -r

which will give something like

2.6.24-25-server

Now, find all installed kernels

aptitude search linux|grep linux-image | grep "i   "

which will give something like

i linux-image-2.6.24-12-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-14-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-15-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-16-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-17-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-18-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-19-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-21-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-22-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-23-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-24-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-2.6.24-25-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x
i linux-image-server - Linux kernel image on Server Equipment.

Purge all of these, except the one found with uname -r and linux-image-server, which is a meta package

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.24-14-server linux-image-2.6.24-15-server linux-image-2.6.24-16-server linux-image-2.6.24-17-server linux-image-2.6.24-18-server linux-image-2.6.24-19-server linux-image-2.6.24-21-server linux-image-2.6.24-22-server linux-image-2.6.24-23-server linux-image-2.6.24-24-server

The above freed 250 MB from /boot and 550 MB from / at my system.

• Xilinx XC3S400A-4FTG256C Spartan-3A FPGA
• Four LEDs
• Four CapSense™ switches
• I2C temperature sensor
• Two 6-pin expansion headers
• 20 x 2, 0.1-inch user I/O header
• 32 Mb Spansion® MirrorBit® NOR GL Parallel Flash
• 128 Mb Spansion MirrorBit SPI FL Serial Flash
• USB-UART bridge
• I2C port
• SPI and BPI configuration
• Xilinx JTAG interface
• FPGA configuration via PSoC®

The flash is not updated through a JTAG, but through the USB interface. On Windows the AVprog is used, which can run in Wine and therefore usable on Linux. It is however easier to use the tool called ASTriAEKiPro 1.2.1.

Download a newest .deb file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgalibre/files/ASTriAEKiPro/ and install it with:
sudo dpkg -i astriaekipro_1.2.1-2_i386.deb

Using ASTriAEKiPro
Get a bit file for the kit, either from the CD in the package or from the Avnet Design Resource Center, go to the Avnet Spartan-3A page and click on "Support files and downloads", login and get the "Default Serial Flash Factory Image" file.

To write to the SPI flash use:
astriaekipro -w Spartan3AEval_FPGA_Firmware_V10.bit

To verify:
astriaekipro -y Spartan3AEval_FPGA_Firmware_V10.bit

ASTriAEKiPro can furthermore be used as a terminal, which makes it possible to use the USB as serial interface for a MicroBlace etc.:
astriaekipro -t

Which will give you something like:

*******************************************************************
*                    _____                                        *
*                   /     \                                       *
*                  /____   \____                                  *
*                 / \===\   \==/                                  *
*                /___\===\___\/  AVNET                            *
*                     \======/   ENGINEERING                      *
*                      \====/    SERVICES                         *
*                                                                 *
*******************************************************************
*              Spartan 3A Eval Demo V1.0 5/2008                   *
*******************************************************************
* Current Device Status:                                          *
*                                                                 *
*   EF1:  DEACTIVATED                                             *
*   EF2:  DEACTIVATED                                             *
*   EF3:  DEACTIVATED                                             *
*   EF4:  Connected To FPGA System Reset                          *
*   TMP:   29.1250 C                                              *
*   U22:  S29GL032N DETECTED                                      *
*******************************************************************
Type  for command options. 

ADS>

and install
sudo mkdir /home/Xilinx/
sudo chmod 777 /home/Xilinx/
cd Xilinx_11.1_WebPack_SFD
./xsetup

Set the installation path to /home/Xilinx/, and follow the installation process.

When the installation is done, you will be asked for a license. Select "Start ISE WebPack" and click next and follow the instructions on the website. When the license is installed, close the browser window and the Xilinx License Configuration Manager.

The installer will ask for installation of updates. This is advisable, but it is imo easier to download the update files from Xilinx homepage. Go to download and "Software Updates".

Untar the file
tar -xf Xilinx_11.4_ISE_DS_lin.tar

and install
cd Xilinx_11.4_ISE_DS_lin
./xsetup

You are now ready to go, by running
/home/Xilinx/11.1/ISE/bin/lin/ise

If have been injured for some month now, but hoping to be ready for Copenhagen Marathon 2010, and would therefore like to examine my last marathon using Pytrainer. I therefore installed it, and hoped it would work out of the box - but no :)

Enabling the Garmin HR plugin, restarting Pytrainer and clicking "Import from Garmin" did nothing, not even a warning or error in the terminal. Looking at my old post from 8.10, I opened /usr/share/pytrainer/plugins/garmin-hr/main.py to see what was going on.

Pytrainer is using gpsbabel like gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f %s -o gtrnctr -F /tmp/file.gtrnctr, where %s is the device, usb:. But running

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gtrnctr -F /tmp/file.gtrnctr

in a terminal give this result:

Claim interfaced failed: could not claim interface 0: Operation not permitted

It is therefore still required to make a udev rule for the device.

How to get it working
Make the rule file

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules

add the below and close:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"

restart udev:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Now Pytrainer can start gpsbabel, and retrieve data from the watch, which unfortunately just leads to another problem:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pytrainer/main.py", line 166, in runPlugin
self.record.importFromGTRNCTR(gtrnctrFile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pytrainer/record.py", line 410, in importFromGTRNCTR
listTracksGPS = xmlParser.shortFromGPS(gtrnctrFile, True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pytrainer/lib/xmlUtils.py", line 127, in shortFromGPS
tree = xml.etree.cElementTree.parse(gtrnctrFile).getroot()
File "", line 45, in parse
File "", line 32, in parse
SyntaxError: unbound prefix: line 13, column 8

According to this bug report, it is a problem between Pytrainer and gpsbabel 1.3.6. Luckily it is still possible to get gpsbabel 1.3.5 at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/gpsbabel/download, which I downloaded and installed, and it worked with Pytrainer.

However, Pytrainer imports all data from today back to 24 May 2009, the date of the marathon, and stops without any error. It might be because this record has 43 laps, but I do not know. Anyway, it is quite useless if it is not possible to retrieve all data from the watch.

tar -zcvf nm.tgz ~/.gconf/system/networking/ ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring

Caution: This will also backup your keyring!

Restore with:

sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
pkill nm-applet
gconftool-2 --shutdown
cd ~/
tar -zxvf nm.tgz
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
gconftool-2 --shutdown

Caution: This will overwrite your keyring!

Press Alt & F2 to start "Run program" and enter "nm-applet"

Install the needed software packages:

sudo apt-get install bluez bluez-utils wvdial

Enable bluetooth on your phone, scan for it and copy the address for your phone.

hcitool scan

The next step is to find the channel for the phone's dialup service. Run

sdptool browse xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the address found in the previous step. Look for "Service Name: Dial-Up Networking", and note the channel number.

The phone now has to be bound as a rfcomm device, which is configured in /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf. Add

rfcomm4 { bind yes; device xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; channel 2; comment "Serial Port"; }

to the file with the numbers found above.

Now make a configuration file for wvdial

sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf

with this content:

[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm4
Baud = 115200
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = ATM0
Init5 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet"
ISDN = 0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = *99***1#
Username = foo
Password = bar

Thats it. I use the commands below to start the connection. First shut down wlan0, which should not be necessary, but sometimes DNS won't work if wlan0 is searching for access points. I restart bluetooth in order to make sure the phone is bound, and finally, I run wvdial to start the connection.

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
sudo wvdial

Start by capturing data from the watch, using

gpsbabel -t -r -w -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F data.gpx

which will get all data from the watch, and a XML file.

GPScorrelate can be used both in console and GUI mode, using the console tool on a collection of images is done like

gpscorrelate -g data.gpx *.jpg

Using the GUI looks like this

Opening one of the images with for instance eog, it can be seen that the GPS data has been added to the EXIF info.

The result can be shown in various programs and web application, for instance PicasaWeb
http://picasaweb.google.com/ostehamster/Fotosafari

NB: Remember to select the correct time zone!

A standard Ubuntu installation with encrypted hard drive will give you a boot partition and a LVM partition with two logical volumes. If your computer name is “Ubuntu”, the volume group will typically be called Ubuntu, with two volumes: root and swap.

In order to make a logical volume for /home and for /, do the following:

Start by booting onto the alternative version of the Ubuntu cd - the one without LiveCD - and select rescue. The system will automatically find you encrypted and ask for the password. When starting the terminal, you will have to mount a partition - select your boot partition, on my computer /dev/sda1

Make all volume groups active:

sudo lvm vgchange -a y

Run disk check on the volume:

sudo e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root

Resize the file system to 10G

sudo resize2fs -f /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 10G

Wait... make some coffee... maybe even bake a cake, there is time enough :)

Resize the volume to 10G

sudo lvreduce -L10G /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 10G

Important: you have to shrink the file system before the logical volume!

Display how much free space the LVM group has, the first number is free "extents" and the second is in GB, MB etc.

sudo vgdisplay | grep Free

Create the new volume, -l specify the size in extens, -L in GB, MB etc.

sudo lvcreate -l 50 -n home ubuntu

Make the file system

sudo mke2fs -j /dev/ubuntu/home

sudo vol_id /dev/mapper/ubuntu-home | grep ID_FS_UUID=

will give the UUID for the "device", which can be used in /etc/fstab like:

# /dev/mapper/ubuntu-home
UUID=37563b54-50e5-486c-8796-2df55598fb63 /home ext3 relatime 0 2

Of cause you will have to move all data from /home to the new volume, before mounting it at home!

Now put the SIM back in the modem, and connect it to your computer. The below pop up will show up, and you just have to click Config. (If it do not show up, right click on the Network Manager and select Edit Connections.)

Click Next, and select TDC as Service Provider (Fullrate uses TDCs net), click Next again, and give the connection a name and then click Apply.

Now the system should connect you, if you have coverage, and this pop up will appear

Very simple!!! :)

The connection is quite good, and the speed is as promised. Fullrates speedtest at http://speedtest.fullrate.dk/ gives 1.15Mps, while the upload is at 0.25Mps.

The ftp servertest at http://www.fullrate.dk/support/hastighed/ do not work, which might be because the server only allow Fullrate connections, while this is basically a TDC connection.

Downloading a part of an Ubuntu image from HEAnet Ireland gives an average of 115K/s, which is the normal, according to http://www.fullrate.dk/support/hastighed/

Update:
22 jan 2008, 22:18
Maybe a little to early to say anything works. After 40 minutes the modem lost connection for 5 min, before getting on-line again.

echo "deb http://www.e-oss.net/ubuntu/gutsy/ ./" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pytrainer
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2-extras

To get the Garmin kernel driver working in user space, make an udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules with this content

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"

Pytrainer is made to use path like /dev/ttyUSBX to connect to the Garmin watch. I believe the right way is to use Garmin usb driver directly, hence usb: in the config. Therefore you have to open /usr/share/pytrainer/plugins/garmin-hr/main.py and change

if not os.path.exists(options.device):

to

if (not os.path.exists(options.device) and not options.device == "usb:"):

In Tools -> GPS Device Plugins -> Garmin* ->Preferences change device to [usb:] and status to [Enable].

Thats it, have fun :)

Updated: 11 January 2009:
- Quotes in code-blocks is now "copy/paste enabled"
- Pauls comment from December 31st, 2008 at 14:22 added to the text


sudo mkdir /var/lib/svn/NAME
sudo trac-admin /var/lib/trac/NAME initenv
sudo trac-admin /var/lib/trac/NAME permission add USERNAME TRAC_ADMIN
sudo chown -R www-data /var/lib/trac/
sudo chown -R www-data /var/lib/svn/


Use the admin tool on the webpage to setup rights.

Apache2 setup:

# Trac support
<location /trac>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Trac"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user

SetHandler mod_python
PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /var/lib/trac
PythonOption TracUriRoot "/trac"
</location>

'echo -e 'cd /path/to/the/backup/directory
ls -1' | sftp -b - user@some.serer.com'

It seems that duplicity doesn't work with Python 2.5, which is the version shipped with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. But this bugreport says that it will work, if compiled with Python 2.4.

Here is how you do
Start by installing the necessary tools:

sudo apt-get install python2.4 librsync-dev python-dev python2.4-dev

download the duplicity source and untar it:

wget http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/duplicity/duplicity-0.4.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf duplicity-0.4.2.tar.gz

Now simply build and install it, using Python 2.4

cd duplicity-0.4.2
sudo python2.4 setup.py install

That's it, everything should work now. Ready to backup files to rsync.net :)

noapic nolapic

The only think that doesn't work, is the fan control. Which by the way, doesn't work in Windows either. I uses the tp-fancontrol script from thinkwiki.org

Save tp-fancontrol as /usr/bin/tp-fancontrol and tp-fancontrol.init as /etc/init.d/tp-fancontrol and run

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/tp-fancontrol
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/tp-fancontrol
sudo update-rc.d tp-fancontrol defaults

Warning! Remember that it can be dangerous to control the fan in this way!!!

Time synchronization
Left-click on the clock, and select Adjust date and time. Under Configuration select Keep synchronized with Internet servers, and accept to install NTP-support.

NFS
In order to use NFS, install "nfs-common"

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

Latex

sudo apt-get install lmodern texmaker tetex-base tetex-extra tetex-doc

Network diagnostic tools

sudo apt-get install iptraf wireshark

Gaim plugins

sudo apt-get install gaim-encryption gaim-thinklight

SUN Java

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Moving evolution files
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/875

C/C++ development, Build essential and glade

sudo apt-get install build-essential glade-gnome-2 libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev

Flash
Download version 9.x.x from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer, untar and run

sudo ./flashplayer-installer

Mediaplays

sudo apt-get install amarok helix-player mplayer mplayerplug-in

and codecs

sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse libxine-extracodecs w32codecs

Servers

sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 mysql-client-5.0 apache2 php5 php5-gd php5-mysql phpmyadmin phpsysinfo websvn php5-cgi libapache2-mod-php5 subversion

Bluetooth

sudo apt-get install bluez-gnome gnome-bluetooth

Sound editing

sudo apt-get install audacity

Firewall

sudo apt-get install firestarter

When using nm-applet and wireless, my eth0 isn't ready when firestarter tries to start. To make firestarter start, when the connection is ready, do this:

cd /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
sudo gedit my_script

Into this file, set

#!/bin/sh -e
# Script to dispatch NetworkManager events
#
# Runs commands when NetworkManager fiddles with interfaces.

# Run the right scripts
case "$2" in
    up)
        /etc/init.d/firestarter start
        ;;
    down)

        ;;
    pre-up)

        ;;
    post-down)
        /etc/init.d/firestarter stop
        ;;
    *)
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

and finally

sudo chmod +x my_script

Now firestarter should start, when you connection is ready

Backup

sudo apt-get install duplicity

Diverse

sudo apt-get install dia

Things from ubuntuguide.org
Insert "deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free" and "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main" in /etc/apt/source.list

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread

Preparation
Start by installing the software needed:

sudo apt-get install libpam-mount cryptsetup

Add these line to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

dm_mod
dm_crypt
sha256
aes_i586

and update the initrd-image with

sudo update-initramfs -u all

Making the encrypted partition
Remember to take BACKUP, because all data at /dev/sda6 will be lost!!!

Now we have to make the encrypted partition, in this example the devices name is /dev/sda6. First we load the needed modules

sudo modprobe dm_crypt
sudo modprobe sha256
sudo modprobe aes_i586

and the make the LUKS-partiton (use your log-in password):

sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda6

Now /dev/sda6 has the LUKS format, and can be attached to /dev/mapper:

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 encrypted_home

And then we can make a file system on it, here ext3

sudo mkfs.ext3 -j -O dir_index -m 0 -v /dev/mapper/encrypted_home

Finally we can mount the partition, to see if it works

sudo mount /dev/mapper/encrypted_home /mnt

Unmount and close the LUKS partition:

sudo umount /mnt
sudo cryptsetup luksClose encrypted_home

Setting up pam_mount
Insert

auth optional /lib/security/pam_mount.so use_first_pass

into /etc/pam.d/common-auth

and

session optional /lib/security/pam_mount.so

into /etc/pam.d/common-session

Now create a mount point for the LUKS partition

sudo mkdir /encrypted_home
sudo chmod 777 /encrypted_home

And add

volume foo crypt - /dev/sda6 /encrypted_home cipher=aes - -

into /etc/security/pam_mount.conf

This means that every time the user foo logs in, the LUKS partition will be mounted on /encrypted_home, using the password foo entered. Therefor the LUKS password has to be the same as the log in password.

Log out, log in and see if it works :)

This is inspirited by:
http://thomasdamgaard.dk/blog/article/krypteret-swap-og-root-filsystem-med-luks-og-ubuntu

sudo apt-get install lmodern texmaker tetex-base tetex-extra tetex-doc

sudo apt-get install manpages-dev

The installation of Ubuntu Dapper is fairly easy, insert the CD, boot and follow the instructions.

When the installation is done, boot up the system and log in. The first thing I do, is to install a SSH server

sudo apt-get install ssh

After this I make GDM log my mythtv user automatically:

System -> Administration -> Login-screen

then chose Security and inter an user in the first field.

Update / Upgrade

I always use the Ubuntuguide, and therefore also the extrea repositories. Do like described here: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#Repositories

Now upgrade the system

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

After something that fells like a day, the upgrade is done, and you can restart the computer.

Xorg for a PAL television

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
wget http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/xorg.conf.txt
sudo mv xorg.conf.txt /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I have used this pages, http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html, as a reference, because I have absolutely no idear have Xorg works :) The config file i used, was the first one (http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/xorg.conf.txt)

And on my television the images is bigger than the screen, so mythtv, mplayer and Xine has to scale the output to fit!

CPU Temperature monitoring asdaasd

Start by installing lm sensors

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

For some reason, some files in the /dev directory won't be created automaticly, I have no idea why. But there is a script called mkdev.sh, this is the code:

#!/bin/bash

# Here you can set several defaults.

# The number of devices to create (max: 256)
NUMBER=32

# The owner and group of the devices
OUSER=root
OGROUP=root
# The mode of the devices
MODE=600

# This script doesn't need to be run if devfs is used
if [ -r /proc/mounts ] ; then
if grep -q "/dev devfs" /proc/mounts ; then
echo "You do not need to run this script as your system uses devfs."
exit;
fi
fi

i=0;

while [ $i -lt $NUMBER ] ; do
echo /dev/i2c-$i
mknod -m $MODE /dev/i2c-$i c 89 $i || exit
chown "$OUSER:$OGROUP" /dev/i2c-$i || exit
i=$[$i + 1]
done
#end of file

Insert this code into mkdev.sh, and do this

chmod 755 mkdev.sh
sudo ./mkdev.sh

Now run

sudo sensors-detect

and say yes when it ask, to save changes to /etc/modules

To test this run

sudo modprobe i2c-viapro i2c-isa vt1211 eeprom
sensors

This should give something like

vt1211-isa-6000
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore1:    +1.39 V  (min =  -0.03 V, max =  +2.63 V)
+5V:       +5.03 V  (min =  -0.08 V, max =  +6.74 V)
+12V:     +12.28 V  (min =  -0.18 V, max = +15.47 V)
+3.3V:     +3.32 V  (min =  -0.05 V, max =  +4.18 V)
System:      0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 2)
CPU:         0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 2)
CPU:       +56.8°C  (high =  +196°C, hyst =   -67°C)
vid:      +0.000 V  (VRM Version 0.0)

Unfortunally, this don't work for me anymore, after the vt1211 module is added to the kernel. http://hem.bredband.net/ekmlar/vt1211.html

Mediaplayers and codecs

I use mplayer and xine the most of the time, and again I use ubuntuguide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_Multimedia_Codecs

I use the first to steps to install codecs and DVD support. Then I install xine and mplayer, furthermore I need VLC in order to use streamtv.dk.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse w32codecs
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
sudo apt-get install xine-ui libxine-extracodecs
sudo apt-get install vlc
sudo apt-get install mplayer

Remember to enable lirc support in VLC

Xine and XXMC

To make Xine use the MPEG2 decoder on the moterboard, use this option

xine -V xxmc

Or enable it in the ~/.xine/config file. With this option, I can see DVD using only 5% of the CPU

Haupaung PVR-250 IVTV Driver

On the official Ubuntu homepage, there is an excellent guide for installing IVTV:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_IVTV_Dapper

But start installing build-essential

sudo apt-get install build-essential

LIRC

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Lirc_on_Ubuntu_Dapper

Use the lirc_i2c module

Apache, MySQL

In order to make mythtv run, MySQL is required. I also use MythWeb on apache, and some other apache stuff

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-gd mysql-server php5-mysql php5-mysqli
sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn libapache-mod-dav wordpress 

To change mysql password for root:

mysql -u root
mysql> USE mysql;
mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE user='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MythTV

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation

Start by installing SVN and checkout the latest source from the SVN server

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/myththemes

Now install all the dependencies

sudo apt-get build-dep mythtv
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt-mysql

This will install support for the MPEG decoder and some header files, in order to compile MythTV

sudo apt-get install libxvmc1 libxvmc-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libviaXvMC.so.1 /usr/lib/libviaXvMC.so.1.0

Start by running configure

cd ~/mythtv
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-joystick-menu --disable-firewire --disable-dbox2 --disable-hdhomerun --enable-xvmc

--enable-xvmc is the important here, because it makes it possible to use the MPEG decoder at the Via Epia board. The output from ./configure should look like this:

# Video Output Support 	...
XvMC support     yes
XvMC VLD support yes
XvMC pro support no
XvMC libs        -lXvMCW

The rest I have disabled, is just stuff I don't have.

qmake mythtv.pro
make
sudo make install

MythPlugins

Use ./configure --help to figure out which plugins is available, I use this configuration

cd ../mythplugins
sudo apt-get install libmad0-dev libflac-dev libcdaudio-dev libid3tag0-dev libcdparanoia0-dev
./configure --prefix=/usr/ --disable-mythphone --disable-mythgame --disable-mythflix --disable-mythbrowser
qmake mythplugins.pro
make
sudo make install

Copy mythweb to the webserver directory

sudo cp mythweb/ /var/www/ -R MythThemes
cd ../myththemes
./configure --prefix=/usr
qmake myththemes.pro
sudo make install

MythThemes

cd ../myththemes
./configure --prefix=/usr
qmake myththemes.pro
sudo make install