[0.6.0] Installation of yaVdr 0.6 in Intel NUC6?

jbjbjb · February 16, 2016 at 1:19 PM

Hi.

I have tried to install yaVdr 0.6 in the las version of intel NUC (NUC6i5SYK), but the bootable usb of yaVdr 0.6 can not go on since the keyboard selecction.

I had to record yaVdr 0.6 iso in a DVD, and connect an external DVD reader in order to go on with installation.

The problem is that the installation software is not able to detect the wired network, so installation is not able to finish.

I want to try Ubuntu 15.10 64bits, but I do not know if yaVdr 0.6 can be installed from a ppa repository. Is that possible?, what should I do?.

Regards.
Javier B.

mini73 · February 16, 2016 at 1:38 PM

You can't install the yavdr packages on an Ubuntu 15.10 installation. I'm not even sure, if 15.10 uses Upstart (when was the switch to systemd?) and also some dependencies might have changed.

Lars.

Frodo · February 16, 2016 at 1:49 PM

Ubuntu 15.10 use systemd.

seahawk1986 · February 16, 2016 at 4:56 PM

You could try if the ethernet card works with Kernel 4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 Server - if it does, you could try a network installation installation using a preseed for yaVDR.

jbjbjb · February 16, 2016 at 6:52 PM

Hi.

Even without finishing installation, yaVdr starts in Tty1 screen and I can login.

I think that no sofware has been downloaded from internet and neither post-installation scripts of yaVdr have been executed.

I found a page with some info about how to install intel wired network driver in ubuntu 14.04.03, I guess I will be able to do the same in yaVdr 0.6 and activate network.

But, I do not know if I will be able to run the post-intallation scripts after installing the network.

Tomorrow I will try to activate the network, if it works I will let you know and we will decide next steps.

Regards.
Javier B.

jbjbjb · February 17, 2016 at 9:50 AM

Hi.

Too hard for me

Booting with Ubuntu 15.10 in order to know the model of wired network, it seems to be: Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-V. So I go to Intel drivers web page to download the right driver: em-7.6.1.tar.gz.

The way for installing seems to be easy:

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1. Move the base driver tar file to the directory of your choice. For
   example, use /home/username/em or /usr/local/src/em.


2. Untar/unzip the archive:


   tar xzf em-x.x.x.tar.gz


This will create the em-x.x.x directory.


3. To install man page:


   cd em-x.x.x
   gzip -c em.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/em.4.gz


4. To load the driver onto a running system:


   cd em-x.x.x/src
   make load


5. To assign an IP address to the interface, enter the following:


   ifconfig em<interface_num> <IP_address>


6. Verify that the interface works. Enter the following, where <IP_address>
   is the IP address for another machine on the same subnet as the interface
   that is being tested:


   ping <IP_address>


7. If you want the driver to load automatically when the system is booted:


   cd em-x.x.x/src
   make
   make install


Edit /boot/loader.conf, and add the following line:
   if_em_load="YES"


Edit /etc/rc.conf, and create the appropriate ifconfig_em<interface_num> entry:


   ifconfig_em<interface_num>="<ifconfig_settings>"


Example usage:
   ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"

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But... I can not run make command, it seems not to be installed, and I have no network to do it... Is there an esay way to install make command without network connection?.

[Edited]: The exit of "dpkg --get-selections" command is here: http://pastebin.com/k9ND6Ugh

Regards.
Javier B.

jbjbjb · February 17, 2016 at 12:07 PM

I am going to try Ubuntu 14.04.03 server in order to try the proposal of seahawk1986.

Regards.
Javier B.

jbjbjb · February 17, 2016 at 12:37 PM

Ubuntu server 14.04.03 installed and working properly. Network works also fine.

What should I do to install Yavdr 0.6 by means a network preseed?.

Regards.
Javier B.

seahawk1986 · February 17, 2016 at 1:13 PM

Quote from jbjbjb

What should I do to install Yavdr 0.6 by means a network preseed?.

There are two ways you could try:
1) Adding the yaVDR PPAs to your existing installation, installing the packages and forcing the post-install event

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/main
sudo add-apt-repository -s ppa:yavdr/stable-vdr
sudo add-apt-repository -s ppa:yavdr/stable-xmbc
sudo add-apt-repository -s ppa:yavdr/stable-yavdr
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommend yavdr-esential
sudo yavdr-post-install

Because yavdr-post-install will add the yaVDR PPAs as well, you should delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yavdr.list afterwards.
You will probably need to add "i915.preliminary_hw_support=1" to your kernel command line in order to use the intel driver with Kernel 4.2 - see https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-SKL-Prelim-Support
So create a custom template for /etc/default/grub:

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sudo mkdir -p /etc/yavdr/templates_custom/etc/default/grub
sudo cp /usr/share/yavdr/templates/etc/default/grub/10_main /etc/yavdr/templates_custom/etc/default/grub/

insert the Option into the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable(s) in the file /etc/yavdr/templates_custom/etc/default/grub/10_main
and run this command to update the actual grub files:

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sudo process-template /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

Now you perform all the steps necessary for the intel graphics drivers and softhddevice to support vaapi. After that you reboot.

2) The second way would be installing from the ubuntu server cd with modified boot parameters to include a preseed file from the network.
So on your second yaVDR you would save this as yavdr.seed:

yavdr.seed

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# Only ask the UTC question if there are other operating systems installed.
d-i     clock-setup/utc-auto    boolean true
# Configure APT to not install recommended packages by default. Use of this
# option can result in an incomplete system and should only be used by very
# experienced users.
d-i tasksel/first multiselect 
d-i     preseed/early_command   string . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; db_get debconf/priority; case $RET in low|medium) db_fset tasksel/first seen false; echo 'tasksel tasksel/first seen false' >>/var/lib/preseed/log ;; esac
# Only install basic language packs. Let tasksel ask about tasks.
d-i     pkgsel/language-pack-patterns   string
# No language support packages.
d-i     pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false


d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none
#d-i pkgsel/install-recommends boolean false
#d-i pkgsel/upgrade select full-upgrade
d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i pkgsel/updatedb boolean false
popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false


# Enable extras.ubuntu.com.
d-i     apt-setup/extras        boolean true


# yaVDR main PPA
d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string \
       deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/main/ubuntu trusty main
d-i apt-setup/local0/comment string yaVDR main
# Enable deb-src lines
d-i apt-setup/local0/source boolean true
# URL to the public key of the local repository
d-i apt-setup/local0/key string http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x272A2CE18103B360


# yaVDR testing-vdr PPA
d-i apt-setup/local1/repository string \
       deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/testing-vdr/ubuntu trusty main
d-i apt-setup/local1/comment string yaVDR testing-vdr
# Enable deb-src lines
d-i apt-setup/local1/source boolean true
# URL to the public key of the local repository
d-i apt-setup/local1/key string http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x272A2CE18103B360


# yaVDR testing-yavdr PPA
d-i apt-setup/local2/repository string \
       deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/testing-yavdr/ubuntu trusty main
d-i apt-setup/local2/comment string yaVDR testing-yavdr
# Enable deb-src lines
d-i apt-setup/local2/source boolean true
# URL to the public key of the local repository
d-i apt-setup/local2/key string http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x272A2CE18103B360


# yaVDR testing-xbmc PPA
d-i apt-setup/local3/repository string \
       deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/testing-xbmc/ubuntu trusty main
d-i apt-setup/local3/comment string yaVDR testing-xbmc
# Enable deb-src lines
d-i apt-setup/local3/source boolean true
# URL to the public key of the local repository
d-i apt-setup/local3/key string http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x272A2CE18103B360


# Enable deb-src lines
d-i apt-setup/local4/source boolean true
# URL to the public key of the local repository
d-i apt-setup/local4/key string http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x272A2CE18103B360


d-i pkgsel/include string yavdr-essential devscripts build-essential vim man mlocate cifs-utils samba samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient ntfs-3g v86d python-software-properties lsb-invalid-mta


d-i lirc/remote select Custom
d-i lirc/transmitter select None


user-setup-udeb user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false


# The user account will be added to some standard initial groups. To
# override that, use this.
d-i passwd/user-default-groups string audio cdrom video adm
# postinstall
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target yavdr-post-install; sed -i '/yavdr/d' /target/etc/apt/sources.list; sed -i '/yaVDR/d' /target/etc/apt/sources.list;

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And set up a rudimentary http server by running this command in the same directory as yavdr.seed:

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python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Then you boot from the Ubuntu 14.04.3 Server install meihtdium and choose the extended boot options with F6, hit the Escape key and replace

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file=/cdrom/preseed/yavdr.seed

w

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url=http://<IP of VDR with python http server>:8000/yavdr.seed

. Then install, reboot and add the needed drivers and grub options.

Edit: updated PPA handling in first approach.
Edit2: do not install optional packages

jbjbjb · February 17, 2016 at 4:17 PM

Thanks.

Done the firs option.

Solfthdevice plugin do not work by now. I have compiled and installed the plugin with the right options (I think), but nothing shown.

With mouse I can activate the left menu to launch firefox, kodi, etc...

Some buttons of my remote contro do not work neither.

This is the output of syslog after a reboot:

http://pastebin.com/tGpJaDss

Regards.
Javier B.

mini73 · February 17, 2016 at 5:04 PM

You should add some valid channels to your channels.conf, the IPTV channels may not work reliable.

And I don't see any vaapi or similar messages from softhddevice, are you sure you have compiled and installed it in the right way?

Lars.

seahawk1986 · February 17, 2016 at 5:51 PM

Are you sure your self-compiled package has vaapi support?

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Feb 17 16:10:43 yaVdr06 vdr: video/vaapi: Can't inititialize VA-API on ':1.0'
Feb 17 16:10:43 yaVdr06 vdr: video: 'va-api' output module isn't supported

Can you build it again and post the buildlog?

jbjbjb · February 17, 2016 at 6:01 PM

Well, I think I did right but tomorrow I will try again.

Regards
Javier B.

jbjbjb · February 18, 2016 at 9:34 AM

Hi.

Here you have the whole process:

http://pastebin.com/dPEZMHU6

[Edited] Errors remains:

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Feb 18 09:44:58 yaVdr06 vdr: video: 'va-api' output module isn't supported
Feb 18 09:44:58 yaVdr06 vdr: audio: 'alsa' output module used

Regards.
Javier B.

seahawk1986 · February 18, 2016 at 12:06 PM

According to the description in https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archiv…raphics-drivers the packages are supposed to work with Ubuntu 14.04.1 or lower -
maybe they need to be recompiled against the headers of the newer *-lts-wiley packages if Ubuntu 14.04.3 is used.

jbjbjb · February 18, 2016 at 4:35 PM

Quote from seahawk1986

maybe they need to be recompiled against the headers of the newer *-lts-wiley packages

Ok.

Someone can tell me how can I compile the drivers in the 14.04.3 version? Is it the same procedure that compiling softhdevice?

Regards.
Javier B.

jbjbjb · February 21, 2016 at 11:18 AM

Hi.

As I do not know how to go on ahead, and I have a second SSD M2 hard disk, I will give a try to easyVdr, just to know if it can work properly with NUC6.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards.
Javier B.

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