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tonymuka
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Hi Martian, thanks for writing up the guide!
I figured after striking out with firefox 2, 3, and 3.1 i'd give iceweasel a try. It installed fine, but I have the same issue with flash video fullscreen just showing a black screen with audio. I'm thinking maybe it's a driver issue or something. Now to read up on nvidia driver updates!
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tonymuka
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:27 pm |
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Aha! it must be an issue with the legacy nvidia driver i was using. Even the latest recomended one from nvidia had the problem, but it was fixed by installing a dev version of the driver. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.09-pkg1.run
I guessed the url of the driver, so i hope nothing explodes, but for now it seems to be working better! 
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knappster
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:25 pm |
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Hey Martian,
What version of KM are you running? I'm always hesitant to use apt to install anything when it's going to upgrade or remove packages. I am using R5F27 btw.
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Martian
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:33 am |
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knappster wrote: Hey Martian,
What version of KM are you running? I'm always hesitant to use apt to install anything when it's going to upgrade or remove packages. I am using R5F27 btw.
Sorry about that. I thought I had mentioned it.
Presently I'm running KnoppMyth R5.5. I also added that info to my original post.
Cheers,
Martian
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Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)
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knappster
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:00 pm |
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Thanks for the update. I guess I'll be waiting for the moment, then. Have you looked into boxee at all?
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Martian
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:54 pm |
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knappster wrote: Thanks for the update. I guess I'll be waiting for the moment, then. Have you looked into boxee at all?
I'd never heard of Boxee (wiki to the rescue). Looks interesting but the alpha status is more than enough to scare me away.
Martian
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Bob
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:30 pm |
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Hi,
Don't be scared with the Alpha status. It's really stable and there is very often update.
It's a great Knoppmyth extension.
Bob
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Too Many Secrets
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:45 pm |
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Don't want to take this thread too far OT, but could someone familiar with boxee create a thread (or link one). I'm interesting in it's usefulness on a KM setup. Seems like it could bring a lot of online content to my TV. It also seems like it could step on what mythtv already accomplishes too.
TIA
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knappster
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:05 pm |
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Too Many Secrets
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:49 am |
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anyone have a km test box to try this on? I've got it running on my windows laptop. it has potential.
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marc.aronson
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:33 am |
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Martin, I'm running R5.5 and I started to give you instructions a try but I noticed that the apt-get of iceweasel causes quite a few packages to get upgraded. Before I go forward I wanted to double-check that this list looks reasonable / consistent with your experience -- I don't want to run the risk of hosing my installation. Thanks for your help!
Marc
Code: root@mythhd:/etc/apt# apt-get install -s iceweasel | more
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
apt apt-utils aptitude dpkg libcairo2 libcairo2-dev libcwidget3
libdirectfb-1.0-0 libept0 libhunspell-1.2-0 libmozjs1d libnspr4-0d
libnss3-1d libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev libpixman-1-0
libpixman-1-dev libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev libsqlite3-0
libsqlite3-dev libts-0.0-0 libxapian15 libxcb-render-util0
libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0 libxcb-render0-dev libxcb1
libxcb1-dev libxul-common libxul0d tasksel xulrunner-1.9
Suggested packages:
apt-doc python-apt debtags xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts
xfonts-mathml ttf-mathematica4.1 xprint mozplugger libcairo2-doc
libcwidget-dev ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp libpango1.0-doc sqlite3-doc xapian-tools
Recommended packages:
aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc libparse-debianchangelog-perl myspell-en-us
myspell-dictionary hunspell-dictionary x-ttcidfont-conf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libnss3-0d
The following NEW packages will be installed:
iceweasel libcwidget3 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libept0 libhunspell-1.2-0 libmozjs1d
libnss3-1d libpixman-1-dev libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev
libts-0.0-0 libxapian15 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render-util0-dev
libxcb-render0 libxcb-render0-dev libxcb1-dev xulrunner-1.9
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-utils aptitude dpkg libcairo2 libcairo2-dev libnspr4-0d
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev libpixman-1-0 libsqlite3-0
libsqlite3-dev libxcb1 libxul-common libxul0d tasksel
17 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 1 to remove and 876 not upgraded.
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tjc
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:52 pm |
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Most of those packages look safe enough to me, but as always, make sure that you've got a current backup in case you need to revert the hard way...
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marc.aronson
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:54 pm |
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Subsequent to my previous post I downloaded the latest firefox tarball. I successfully untar'ed it in a directory I created, downloaded the latest flash player and installed that with its installation script. I can play shows from Hulu, but when I go to full screen mode, things freeze up and I need to "kill -9" the firefox processes. Suggestions / ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
Marc
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brfransen
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:55 pm |
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marc.aronson wrote: but when I go to full screen mode, things freeze up and I need to "kill -9" the firefox processes. Suggestions / ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
Marc I saw the same thing until I disabled hardware acceleration. Go to a page with a flash video and right click on the video. Look through the options to disable hardware acceleration.
Britney
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marc.aronson
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:19 pm |
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brfransen wrote: marc.aronson wrote: but when I go to full screen mode, things freeze up and I need to "kill -9" the firefox processes. Suggestions / ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
Marc I saw the same thing until I disabled hardware acceleration. Go to a page with a flash video and right click on the video. Look through the options to disable hardware acceleration. Britney Britney, thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to make any changes to the settings. While a flash video is playing I right-click and choose "settings". A dialogue box pops up that includes the "hardware acceleration" option, but the dialogue box will not respond to any of my mouse clicks. I also cannot get that dialogue box to go close or go away -- it sits there on top of the video no matter what I do until I kill the firefox browser windows and restart it.
Any thoughts?
Marc
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