I have my SR2 folding away in the family room. But I am going to give up on using it as an HTPC. I only have so much time to get it working, and I think that I could use some other boxen resources to accomplish my goals.
First of all, these are my problem areas:
* overscan
* no sound
The overscan is pretty horrendous. Since I am not familiar with Ubuntu, I have no idea how to correct the overscan. The top of the page ("applications, places, system) are way off of the screen. I installed nVidia drives for the 460 GPU, but I don't see any way to correct the massive overscan.
For sound, I need digital output from the motherboard. (I need sound to go directly to my Denon receiver. No HDMI sound is possible with my old audio equipment.) There is no optical or spdif from the SR2. I installed an ASUS sound card, the Mio Audio 888, but I cannot figure out how to get drivers installed for this. Someone suggested ALSA, "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project" link, and I downloaded the software, but I have no idea how to install it.
Instead of using my SR2 as an HTPC, I have some spare quad-core systems laying around in a case ready to go. The motherboard even has digital spdif output ready to go. I think that one of my old quad cores has a Windows OS still installed.
I'm trying to get some 3 TB drives formatted to use on my SR2. I was hoping to use it as a file server with movies and games. Since it is always "on" I am hoping to use it to serve data to other boxen in the house.
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. As always, thanks for your help.
This guide is amazing! Got me up and folding in native Linux. Thanks, musky!
First of all, these are my problem areas:
* overscan
* no sound
The overscan is pretty horrendous. Since I am not familiar with Ubuntu, I have no idea how to correct the overscan. The top of the page ("applications, places, system) are way off of the screen. I installed nVidia drives for the 460 GPU, but I don't see any way to correct the massive overscan.
For sound, I need digital output from the motherboard. (I need sound to go directly to my Denon receiver. No HDMI sound is possible with my old audio equipment.) There is no optical or spdif from the SR2. I installed an ASUS sound card, the Mio Audio 888, but I cannot figure out how to get drivers installed for this. Someone suggested ALSA, "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project" link, and I downloaded the software, but I have no idea how to install it.
Instead of using my SR2 as an HTPC, I have some spare quad-core systems laying around in a case ready to go. The motherboard even has digital spdif output ready to go. I think that one of my old quad cores has a Windows OS still installed.
I'm trying to get some 3 TB drives formatted to use on my SR2. I was hoping to use it as a file server with movies and games. Since it is always "on" I am hoping to use it to serve data to other boxen in the house.
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. As always, thanks for your help.
This guide is amazing! Got me up and folding in native Linux. Thanks, musky!