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2/6/2010

Vizio VX37L / Revo / Mythbuntu 9.10

Filed under: General,MythTV — taing @ 5:37 pm

The trick is in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, particularly the modeline :

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "nvidia ION"
        Monitor         "Vizio VX37L"
        Defaultdepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes   "1360x768C"  "1024x768@60"   "800x600@60"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "nvidia ION"
        Driver  "nvidia"
        Option  "UseEvents"     "1"
        Option  "DPI"   "100x100"
        Option  "NoLogo"        "1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Vizio VX37L"
        Vendorname      "Vizio"
        Modelname       "Vizio 37L"
        Horizsync       31.5-70
        Vertrefresh     50.0-85.0
        Option          "DPMS"
        Option          "ModeValidation" "NoWidthAlignmentCheck, NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"
        Option          "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE"
        modeline  "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
        modeline  "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
        modeline  "1360x768C" 85.50 1366 1494 1624 1798 768 770 776 795 -hsync +vsync
        Gamma   1.0
EndSection

The modeline for 1360×768 will also work for the SV421XVT. However the auto detected 1920×1200 work very well.

A nice trick is to ssh -Y user@host
xrandr -q --screen :0

This will show the screen info for screen:0 on the remote host.

HVR-1950 with Mythbuntu 9.10

Filed under: General,MythTV — taing @ 5:22 pm

The first thing one needs to do is be sure the firmware is loaded.

The firmware can be extracted from the Drivers folder on the CD shipped with the HVR-1950 using the script found at http://www.isely.net/downloads/fwextract.pl. The firmware gets placed in the /lib/firmware directory. There are four files v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
v4l-cx25840.fw
v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw

More info can be found at http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html

Revo HDMI Audio Mythbuntu 9.10

Filed under: General,MythTV — taing @ 4:56 pm

First we needed to add the user to the audio group:

sudo usermod -a -G audio user

Then you will need alsamixer to be sure all three IEC958 outputs are unmuted.

Then you will need to be sure Myth is set for hdmi in the settings.

We also found http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59877 for further info on multi-channel hdmi sound from the Nvidia ION.

We found the output from aplay -l
aplay -L to be useful.

Upgrade for ALSA under Ubuntu 9.10 can be found at http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/12/17/upgrade-alsa-1-0-22-on-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10/.

1/26/2010

VirtualBox Physical Drive

Filed under: General,Router/PC Config — taing @ 11:38 pm

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename -rawdisk /dev/sda -register

Can use the option below to restrict the access to specific partitions
-partitions #

Use the option below to install an alternate boot record for the vmdk
-mbr ./myBootRecord.mbr

There are several methods of creating the mbr file. One is
apt-get install
install-mbr --force myBootRecord.mbr

Do NOT boot the same partion in the VirtualBox as you are currently running.

You must be a member of the “disk” group for creation and access to the vmdk file.


http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows – VirtualBox’s intsructions on converting a WinXP install to a virtual machine.

http://mesbalivernes.blogspot.com/2008/01/virtual-box-booting-from-existing.html – Blog entry describing Boot a physical WinXP install inside a VBox.

http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=blarts.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.virtualbox.org%2Fattachment%2Fwiki%2FMigrate_Windows%2FMergeIDE.zip – MergeIDE is require to prevent WinXP from halting on boot from hardware differences.

8/31/2005

Free 3D Models of Great Buildings – Great Buildings Online

Filed under: General — taing @ 6:49 pm

Free 3D Models of Great Buildings – Great Buildings Online
Hundreds of free 3D walkthough architectural computer models are included here at the Great Buildings Online web site, linked with free DesignWorkshop Lite architectural 3D walkthrough software for both Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and Power Macintosh.

The models range in detail from very simple formal massing models of just a few blocks, through basic interior/exterior spatial walkthrough models, up to detailed interior/exterior models complete with furnishings and landscaping.

It’s all free for your own personal architectural enjoyment, experience, and understanding.

8/30/2005

Intelligent Design

Filed under: General — taing @ 6:47 pm

Edge 166
“Is ‘intelligent design’ a legitimate school of scientific thought?” asks Dennett? “Is there something to it, or have these people been taken in by one of the most ingenious hoaxes in the history of science? Wouldn’t such a hoax be impossible? No. Here’s how it has been done.” he continues.

7/25/2005

the CSS playground – CSS sliding photo-gallery

Filed under: General — taing @ 6:08 pm

stu2 nicholls 7C the CSS playground 7C CSS sliding photo-gallery
It is just an unordered list of images that are normally compressed vertically 28reduction 83A129. When you hover over one of these compressed images it expands to full size.

5/26/2005

Portable Firefox 1.0.4 (USB Drive-Friendly) :: Mozilla Stuff :: JohnHaller.com

Filed under: General — taing @ 8:29 am

Portable Firefox 1.0.4 (USB Drive-Friendly) :: Mozilla Stuff :: JohnHaller.com
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail / GPG

Filed under: General — taing @ 8:28 am

Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail / GPG
Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail/GPG is a modified version of John Haller’s Portable Thunderbird that includes the Enigmail extension giving Thunderbird OpenPGP functionality and an interface to GnuPG.

4/1/2005

Jeff Moore’s Blog � Blog Archive � rsync to remote server via ssh

Filed under: General — taing @ 10:10 am

Jeff Moore’s Blog � Blog Archive � rsync to remote server via ssh
If you ever need to repeatedly upload to a remote server, here is the command line of the day:

rsync -zrptL –delete-after -e “ssh” –include=core –include=tags –exclude=.DS_Store –cvs-exclude /local/dir user@host:/remote/dir/

3/13/2005

Fiddler HTTP Debugger – Fiddler

Filed under: General — taing @ 9:01 pm

Fiddler HTTP Debugger – Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem.

2/26/2005

Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes & Images

Filed under: General — taing @ 8:07 pm

Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes & Images
If you know the name ofthe cartoon you would like to revisit and you can spell, then click on the letter corresponding to the first letter. If you fail in your attempt to locate your first request, click on the Cartoon Logo to return back here and try another one. Thanks and be sure to spread the word about Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes to the World. Thanks for coming… That’s All Folks!!!

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