[mythtv-users] Time to move to an HDMI stick for FEs?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Paul Kendall <pkendall64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
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>> >> I've still not received mine. How has your testing been going?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Thomas Mashos
>> >>
>> > I've got linux (ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10) installed and had mythtv
>> > frontend
>> > running fine.
>> > I used a powered hub to power the meegopad and to provide keyboard and
>> > mouse
>> > and the USB to install from.
>> >
>> > The EFI on the system is only 32bit EFI so you have to build a
>> > bootia32.efi
>> > and pop that on the USB then it boots fine.
>> > You have to keep pressing "Del" to get to the firmware (bios) then go to
>> > the
>> > "Save & Exit" and choose the USB device to boot from.
>> >
>> > Make sure that you don't disable USB while fiddling as some others have
>> > done
>> > as you will be a bit stuffed! And have to wait for
>> > an update from the seller.
>> >
>> > The only problem I have is that the sound does not work yet. I'm putting
>> > windows back on it (I backed up the MMC before installing linux)
>> > so I can get the ACPI device ids for the audio sub system so hopefully I
>> > can
>> > hack up a driver fro linux.
>>
>> I am the aforesaid idiot who changed some bios setting, and now cannot
>> do anything because the only control is via a usb keyboard and/or
>> mouse. Unplugging the bios battery for over 12 hours changed nothing.
>> I am hoping someone is going to send me a new bios, which can
>> apparently be flashed from a usb stick. Fingers crossed.
>>
>> Before I screwed up so royally I was running windows 8.1 with Kodi
>> (the media centre previously known as prin^h^h^h^h xbmc) running fine.
>> Didn't have time to test the PVR functionality.
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> Many (most/all?) bios chips have a reset pin... manufacturers sometimes put
> a reset jumper on the board, but they don't have to... but you can still do
> the reset by shorting the pins together.  You can often find the pinout
> information from the chip manufacturer or sometimes the bios maker.
>
> I did a little research on the processor
> (https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/atom/atom-z36xxx-z37xxx-datasheet-vol-1.html).
> And while it appears that putting a jumper on ILB_RTC_RST# is what you need
> to do, I couldn't find a pinout for the socket this processor uses, and even
> if I could, I am not so confident that you could safely short the pin even
> if I could.... but it may be worth more research.
>
> One thing I did read is that a low/dead battery alarm can trigger a reset
> during post (see the comments for ILB_RTC_TEST# on page 225.  Did you try
> booting with the battery removed?  Also on that page they do mention a
> capacitor connection for the RTC... I suspect that your reset may have
> failed due to this capacitor holding power.  You can try to power on the
> device several times with the power supply disconnected to discharge the
> capacitors.  With the battery removed and capacitors discharged, it should
> force the RTC to lose the time, and hopefully force a bios reset.  If you
> power it on after pulling the battery and trying to discharge the caps the
> easy way, and the time is still accurate... then you may have to manually
> discharge the capacitors on the board by shorting the two pins.  Once they
> are all discharged there is no way the system could maintain its time.
>
> Good luck!
>

Thank you I will look into these ideas.

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