Boxee on Ubuntu Lucid Minimal on Asrock ION 330

// juni 30th, 2010 // Boxee, Bugs, Cuvedev, Linux, Ubuntu

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Yesterday I performed a clean install from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Minimal on my Asrock Ion 330.
I followed this guide like I did last time (for an earlier version of Ubuntu Minimal) but I encountered some problems.

Here’s how I solved them.

In chapter “Updating the computer”, change in the sources.list hardy or intreprid or jaunty by “lucid”.
No problems in “Install sound”.

The real problems came in “Installing the graphical environment”.
When I wanted to install the latest driver for my ION graphics card I always got this error:

ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module ‘nvidia.ko’. This is most likely
because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
‘kernel-source’ rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
‘–kernel-source-path’ commandline option.

It took me a while before I found this solution:
Make the file (or edit the file if it already exists)  /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
and add this content:

DISABLED_MODULES=”nv nvidia_new”

Now you should be able to run the installer without problems.

Another small problem was, logging in automatically. In earlier releases of Ubuntu you had to change some commands in /etc/event.d/tty1 (according to the guide mentioned earlier), but in Ubuntu Lucid, the event.d folder doesn’t exist anymore, and you have to put it in /etc/init/ instead.

Good Luck!

7 Responses to “Boxee on Ubuntu Lucid Minimal on Asrock ION 330”

  1. Diego Mendonça zegt:
    augustus 11, 2010 om 20:43

    Hello
    I’ve been trying to install fallowing the tutorial that you indicated, but i got problems at this part

    sudo vi /etc/event.d/tty1

    I’m using Lucid but the problem is that there isn’t this folder ‘event.d’ or even this file tty1, could you give me some help?

  2. Klaas Cuvelier zegt:
    augustus 12, 2010 om 00:36

    Ow, that’s right. I forgot to mention it in my post.
    In Ubuntu Lucid, /etc/event.d doesn’t exist anymore, you have to put your files in /etc/init.
    So, create (or edit, if already exists) the file tty1 in /etc/init.

    This is what mine says:

    boxee@mediacenter:/etc/init$ cat tty1.conf

    # tty1 – getty
    #
    # This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
    # started until it is shut down again.

    start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
    stop on runlevel [!2345]

    respawn
    #exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
    exec /bin/login -f boxee /dev/tty1 2>&1

  3. Diego Mendonça zegt:
    augustus 12, 2010 om 06:19

    Thanks for your reply! i’ll try to do it and later on i’ll be answer here!

  4. Diego Mendonça zegt:
    augustus 12, 2010 om 08:39

    I’ve tried the tip that you told on your comment, and it did work i have a different hardware than yours, but its a nvidia graphics in my case GF 7050 onboard, so i did change the driver to my graphic card version, after i reboot i get a black screen with a blinking underline (“_”), i can only access my installation over SSH now, do you think that you can help me out?
    I almost givin up linux as far as i’m trying to make it work for a month with no success

  5. Diego Mendonça zegt:
    augustus 12, 2010 om 08:46

    adicionally if i hit /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop to try to run boxee manually i get this error http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5537/screenshot20100812at336.png
    been honest i dont really know much about linux but i cannot understand this error :(

  6. Klaas Cuvelier zegt:
    augustus 13, 2010 om 00:10

    I don’t know if I will be able to help you with your problems, but I’ll try.

    So for the first problem, the graphics card,
    it’s probably a bad driver (or conflicting stuff) or bad configuration, maybe you’ll find something useful in error logs (/var/log)?
    I’ve had a similar problem when I was messing around with the drivers for my Ion, I just reinstalled Ubuntu (it’s minimal it doesn’t take long), and reinstalled the latest drivers, which in that case worked.
    If that doesn’t work, I suggest you try google, see if there are similar cases like yours (with same card and such), or you just try the default driver?

    Second problem, my guess is, it’s because X-server isn’t started?
    If so, fix it by fixing your graphical problem first, and then make sure boxee start when x-server starts (like described in the guide).

    I hope this helps you a bit further.
    Good luck!

  7. Diego Mendonça zegt:
    augustus 14, 2010 om 01:52

    Hi there!

    Thanks for yours answers, i’ve been a little busy this days, but on the weekend i’ll try it! after this i would post something in here!

    Thanks a lot for help me out!

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