Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/home\:arfoll.repo, and set gpgcheck to 0. (The Maemo community OBS seems to enable this but it doesn't sign the packages it builds!)
sudo yum install xbmc
Can't really make it easier than that now can I?
Note: I've only tested this on meego 1.0 netbook with all the latest updates as of 14th august. Please tell me if anything goes wrong in your install.
Thanks to the people on the #meego channel and to the maemo community for making their very nice community OBS available to all meego x86 people.
XBMC r33163 is now available in the repositories!
The current XBMC build is SVN (dharma branch) r32806, which isn't the latest but it's fairly stable. I will move to newer ones eventually but my aim is not to update this every day. The dependancies will probably not be updated so long as the OBS keeps compiling them fine If you have a newer package that works and compiles in meego i'd be glad to replace one of my older ones though!
There is no MythTV support in this XBMC version, as I remove all mysql dependancies using a patch. If anyone really wants to do this, I can probably renenable my mysql/perl packages. I also have a small patch to add some meego specific stuff and fix a libfaad error - see this forum post.
This howto should be very simple to follow. All rpms have been made specifically for meego this time unlike my previous howtos.
This should work for a stock meego 1.0 netbook image. I tested it on a Samsung NC10 with 2GB of ram.
A few optional things that could be nice
An openssh server might be useful, full vim, wget and synergy (keyboard sharing client/server)
sudo yum install -y vim openssh-server wget synergy
My howto will use wget.
Installing dependancies from Meego repos
Here goes the big part. The last 15 or so dependancies may not all be required. However I didn't want to go all the way through them again. If you do it please send me an email
Installing dependancies from here You don't need to install the HAL package since revision 29991. Meego provides udisks and udisks-devel. Thanks openelec.tv for pointing this out! Warning : my mysql package is probably a little different as I got rid of some dependancies Warning : my lame package does not include mp3x as it needed gtk+-devel and I have better things to do
If you want to save some space the debuginfo and doc packages are not needed. Also only the main mysql package and it's dependancies are needed.
My webserver is getting hammered so please be nice and use this google docs link to download the dependancies. Below are the sha1sum and md5sum for the file.
wget http://www.madeo.co.uk/files/XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
tar xzvf XBMC_deps_rpms.tar.gz
cd i586
rm hal-*
sudo rpm -ivh *
Getting XBMC and compiling/installing Feel free to use a different version, the latest wouldn't compile for me so I took what my Acer Revo was currently running... This will take a few hours on an Atom 270 without distcc. Warning: You'll need to use another computer to grab the xbmc sources since SVN isn't in the meego repos and I havent built an RPM for it. Maybe later!
svn co -r30739 https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/ xbmc
cd xbmc/
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-vdpau --disable-dvdcss --disable-hal
make -j2
make install
That's all! Hopefully it works for you. Notice the windowmanager will mess things up if your mouse is in the top part of the screen. Disable the mouse in XBMC or just run a different WM like openbox.
The Tyan S3115 is an Atom board made by Tyan for small servers. I bought one for just that and thought I'd share since I couldn't find much information on it. There are many cheap Atom boards out there in the mini-itx form factor. Most are between £60-£110, maybe a little more for the Nvidia ION boards with Wifi. So why the hell would you want to pay £150 for one? The S3115 board comes in 4 versions. The S3115GN is useless, buy a cheap Intel D510 board - it only has 2 sata, the 945 graphics and no iKVM. The S3115GMN doesn't have a entry on the tyan site, but from the product number it should the same but with one network card missing. The last version is the S3115GM2N-B which just seems to lack the PCI/PCI-E x1 combo favoring a PCI only approach. However a cookie for the first person to find anything but the S3115GM2N on sale in the UK... I bought mine from Ballicom, who I'd never used before but where very good.
The S3115GM2N has a measly 8MB for the tiny Aspeed AST2050 graphics card, 4 usb ports (two at the back, two on the board), 4 sata ports (although one is so stupidly placed I don't know how you would use it...). The only downside of the board seems to be the maximum of 2GB of RAM, using SODIMM sticks, unlike the D510 board from intel which takes one stick of up to 4GB of normal DDR2. The board is cerified to work on RHEL5.2 and RHEL5.4 in both 64bit and 32bit.
The board comes in the typical tyan box, along with a driver CD, 2 sata cables, a backpanel and a manual with a page saying 'china only'. Great! Also they forget to tell you that the 'iKVM' password for root is 'superuser'.
So far all seems pretty good, be carefull the board turns num lock on at boot, so on laptop keyboards watch out!
These are not official builds. Nor are they official instructions. Follow at your own risk ! Download link : (647MB). Alternate link here . If you're even lazier here are some pictures and videos of it running!
Part 1 : Build environment Skip to part2 if you allready have MIC2 or if you have no intention of using fedora
I used Fedora 10, simply because there was a repo for the MIC2 (tool to make images for moblin). For a quick install download a vmware image off thoughtpolice. (the root password is thoughtpolice!).
I'm not sure this is needed but selinux complains during the build and it's notoriously annoying so I disabled it.
system-config-selinux
Add this as moblin_tools.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/:
You'll find your root user has the following property in the live USB image:
user : root
Password : moblin
Notes :
- I've found my clutter interface usually crashes on the first load. Doing an init 3 and then init 5 in a tty terminal as root usually fixes it.
Here are a few pictures of the upcoming Meego release (Moblin 2.2). Go try it out for yourself! USB image can be downloaded here
Bootup is about as fast as Moblin 2.1, syslinux menu has not changed but due to using MIC2 this is not a surprise. Kernel 2.6.33-rc8 is used.
Graphically menus have changed very slightly. It now has a meego graphic as it starts clutter/mutter.
The biggest changes I could spot where Chromium for web browsing and Mozilla nowhere to be found... Thunderbird was being used for email. When halting (which apparently having no icon to do that means it's more user friendly...) it gives you a cute little backdrop of one of those creature like blocks waving at you!
Right now, Meego looks like a clone of Moblin and the only reason for the name change seems to be to appease the Maemo community which still seems to be up in arms about the move to an RPM based distro.
Today I give you some nice pictures of the £99.99 flop that is the O2 joggler by OpenPeak Inc sold by O2 in the UK.
The product in itself is terrible. If you can get it connected to your network, it refuses to do anything before it updates itself. It uses some weird ports to do it's updates on, and once you have it running, you'll discover most features that are planned - well aren't there at all. Luckily O2 will be happy to just refund the thing entirely without questions! Possibly due to the fact the thing is just wholly broken.
Either way, the hardware in it is quite impressive for the money. It is based around the "Poulsbo" Intel System Controller Hub US15W. Itself and the atom Z520 CPU should take around 4.5W of power.
On the Joggler there are 512MB of DDR2 (4 x 1 Gbit chips). The wifi is simply a wifi dongle without a case plugged in to the USB port. Anyways enjoy the pictures.
If you have a newer package that works and compiles in meego i'd be glad to replace one of my older ones though!
