<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Thomas Mashos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank">thomas@mashos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Fry <<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com">joe@thefrys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Paul Kendall <<a href="mailto:pkendall64@gmail.com">pkendall64@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Mashos <<a href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com">thomas@mashos.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> I've still not received mine. How has your testing been going?<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> --<br>
>>> >> Thanks,<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> Thomas Mashos<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> > I've got linux (ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10) installed and had mythtv<br>
>>> > frontend<br>
>>> > running fine.<br>
>>> > I used a powered hub to power the meegopad and to provide keyboard and<br>
>>> > mouse<br>
>>> > and the USB to install from.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > The EFI on the system is only 32bit EFI so you have to build a<br>
>>> > bootia32.efi<br>
>>> > and pop that on the USB then it boots fine.<br>
>>> > You have to keep pressing "Del" to get to the firmware (bios) then go to<br>
>>> > the<br>
>>> > "Save & Exit" and choose the USB device to boot from.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Make sure that you don't disable USB while fiddling as some others have<br>
>>> > done<br>
>>> > as you will be a bit stuffed! And have to wait for<br>
>>> > an update from the seller.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > The only problem I have is that the sound does not work yet. I'm putting<br>
>>> > windows back on it (I backed up the MMC before installing linux)<br>
>>> > so I can get the ACPI device ids for the audio sub system so hopefully I<br>
>>> > can<br>
>>> > hack up a driver fro linux.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I am the aforesaid idiot who changed some bios setting, and now cannot<br>
>>> do anything because the only control is via a usb keyboard and/or<br>
>>> mouse. Unplugging the bios battery for over 12 hours changed nothing.<br>
>>> I am hoping someone is going to send me a new bios, which can<br>
>>> apparently be flashed from a usb stick. Fingers crossed.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Before I screwed up so royally I was running windows 8.1 with Kodi<br>
>>> (the media centre previously known as prin^h^h^h^h xbmc) running fine.<br>
>>> Didn't have time to test the PVR functionality.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Many (most/all?) bios chips have a reset pin... manufacturers sometimes put<br>
>> a reset jumper on the board, but they don't have to... but you can still do<br>
>> the reset by shorting the pins together. You can often find the pinout<br>
>> information from the chip manufacturer or sometimes the bios maker.<br>
>><br>
>> I did a little research on the processor<br>
>> (<a href="https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/atom/atom-z36xxx-z37xxx-datasheet-vol-1.html" target="_blank">https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/atom/atom-z36xxx-z37xxx-datasheet-vol-1.html</a>).<br>
>> And while it appears that putting a jumper on ILB_RTC_RST# is what you need<br>
>> to do, I couldn't find a pinout for the socket this processor uses, and even<br>
>> if I could, I am not so confident that you could safely short the pin even<br>
>> if I could.... but it may be worth more research.<br>
>><br>
>> One thing I did read is that a low/dead battery alarm can trigger a reset<br>
>> during post (see the comments for ILB_RTC_TEST# on page 225. Did you try<br>
>> booting with the battery removed? Also on that page they do mention a<br>
>> capacitor connection for the RTC... I suspect that your reset may have<br>
>> failed due to this capacitor holding power. You can try to power on the<br>
>> device several times with the power supply disconnected to discharge the<br>
>> capacitors. With the battery removed and capacitors discharged, it should<br>
>> force the RTC to lose the time, and hopefully force a bios reset. If you<br>
>> power it on after pulling the battery and trying to discharge the caps the<br>
>> easy way, and the time is still accurate... then you may have to manually<br>
>> discharge the capacitors on the board by shorting the two pins. Once they<br>
>> are all discharged there is no way the system could maintain its time.<br>
>><br>
>> Good luck!<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Thank you I will look into these ideas.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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</div></div>Nick, I'm glad you replied to this thread again as I couldn't remember<br>
what the thread was titled.<br>
<br>
I'd like everyone to know, that I finally just received mine (signed<br>
for it about 15 minutes ago). I ordered this the day it hit the list,<br>
maybe a few hours after Nick ordered his. Apparently it was sent back<br>
from Chinese customs, but I'm just going to mark this as never order<br>
from this seller again (and warn others not to do so either).<br>
Basically I had to open a dispute and the seller threw in free DHL<br>
shipping. Over two months (almost three months) after I ordered it,<br>
going back and forth with the seller, I finally received the item.<br>
<br>
TL;DR: Ordered Oct 29th, supposedly shipped multiple times and sent<br>
back from customs. Opened a dispute with the seller. Item ships Jan<br>
14th. Arrived Jan 19th. Never ordering from this guy again.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Was there ever a verdict from the early adopters of these? Are they usable as MythTV frontends?</div><div><br></div><div>- Does audio work in Linux?</div><div>- Any video acceleration support with VAAPI?</div></div></div></div>