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

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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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Nick, I'm glad you replied to this thread again as I couldn't remember
what the thread was titled.

I'd like everyone to know, that I finally just received mine (signed
for it about 15 minutes ago). I ordered this the day it hit the list,
maybe a few hours after Nick ordered his. Apparently it was sent back
from Chinese customs, but I'm just going to mark this as never order
from this seller again (and warn others not to do so either).
Basically I had to open a dispute and the seller threw in free DHL
shipping. Over two months (almost three months) after I ordered it,
going back and forth with the seller, I finally received the item.

TL;DR: Ordered Oct 29th, supposedly shipped multiple times and sent
back from customs. Opened a dispute with the seller. Item ships Jan
14th. Arrived Jan 19th. Never ordering from this guy again.

-- 
Thanks,

Thomas Mashos