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caselcd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-06-04T19:35:12+00:00

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-	hack	+	====== Case and LCD ======

-	hack1!!!	+	[[ding:intro\|Ding]] resides in a black [[http://iuneed.com/3e.html\|DIGN 3E]] Home Theater Case. It's black, it's beautiful, it has a blue Power LED and Display :-). What else would you want? Front USB and Firewire? It even has that!

-	DELETEME fuckkk

		+	===== Network LED Hack =====

		+	{{ ding:netled.jpg?100}}
		+	I don't use a harddrive in Ding instead everything comes from the network. Unfortunatly this makes a HDD LED pretty much useless. But I wanted some [[http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html\|blinkenlights]] so I had the idea of a network activity LED. Of course 3Com didn't add a Connector for an additional LED on their otherwise great NIC so I had to do some soldering. I soldered a cable to the contact of the onboard LED (see picture). The LEDs on the NIC are very tiny and apparantly do not use much power so I couldn't use the blue HDD LED that comes with the DIGN Case. Instead I used an old red one I had laying around.

		+	I did the soldering at the backside and arranged the cable through a hole in the NIC. I attached two metal pins at the end of the wire and isolateted the solder joint with shrink wrap. Thes pins fit very well in the LED's connector plug.

		+	===== Enabling the LCD =====
		+
		+	{{ ding:display_back.jpg?150}}
		+	The VFD display is a Samsung 16T202DA and is connected via Parallell Port.
		+
		+	To get it work in linux is easy. First make sure you disable all special features of the parallel port like ESP and stuff in your Motherboards Bios. Then get LCDproc - here is the debian way to do it:
		+
		+	#> apt-get install lcdproc
		+
		+	LCDproc is a Client/Server application. The lcdprocd server controls the hardware and the clients deliver the data to display. You need to configure the server by editing /etc/LCDd.conf - here are the options I changed for the Samsung display:
		+
		+	<file>
		+	[server]
		+	Driver=HD44780
		+	Bind=127.0.0.1
		+	Port=13666
		+
		+	[HD44780]
		+	Port=0x378
		+	ConnectionType=winamp
		+	Size=16x2
		+	</file>
		+
		+
		+
		+	==== XMMS LCD plugin ====
		+
		+	For using the display with [[http://www.xmms.org/\|XMMS]] I modified the sourcecode of the XMMS plugin [[http://microlcd.albrechtloh.de/\|MicroLCD]] to work with the 16x2 Character Display of the DIGN case instead of a 16x1 display it was designed for. You can download the binary and the sourcecode right here: {{ding:MicroLCD-0.1.1-16x2.tgz}}.
		+
		+	To install copy ''microlcd.so'' to ''/usr/lib/xmms/Visualization/'' and enable it in XMMS's plugin menu. It scrolls artist and songtitle in the top row and displays time, volume and info about shuffle and repeat state in the second row.
		+
		+	{{ ding:display.jpg?150}}
		+	You can see the display with the XMMS plugin in action on the picture on the right. My digicam is a little bit too slow to catch the scrolling title. In the lower left corner you can see the red network activity LED.
		+
		+	======MANTIS ==========
		+	What does that mean??

intro

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-09-10T18:31:26+00:00

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-	4PKXfg <a href="http://yfdpwsvdxgbc.com/">yfdpwsvdxgbc</a>, [url=http://hlwgfmjatqvs.com/]hlwgfmjatqvs[/url], [link=http://dvquboluyarw.com/]dvquboluyarw[/link], http://pdyvceizknrt.com/	+	====== Ding Multimediaplayer ======
		+
		+
		+	===== Introduction =====
		+
		+	This is a completely revised documentation my "ding" project - my attempt to build a stand alone multimedia player. It was first documented at [[http://bogmog.sourceforge.net/document_show.php3?doc_id=30\|bogmog]] in December 2001. It developed over the years so I decided to redo the documentation for your interest.
		+
		+	The aim of this project is to build a standalone multimedia player. It should be completely remote controllable and able to play various modern multimedia formats including MPEG, DIVX, MP3 and DVD. It should also being used for burning/copying CDs and playing games.
		+
		+	When I decided to build this thing I had no good name or description for it. When I talked about it it was always referred as "you know that thing that will play my video files...". It happens that "Ding" is nothing more than the german word for "thing".
		+
		+	Here are my goals again:
		+
		+	* Completely remote controlled: use of Keyboard and Mouse is optional
		+	* Nearly noiseless: I don't want to hear the PC when watching movies
		+	* Good looking: It has to fit in the living room - so the Woman's Acceptance Factor (WAF) has to be high
		+	* Connectible to my TV set: I don't want to watch movies at a tiny Monitor
		+	* Support for all modern mediafiles
		+	* Running Linux: Because it's always the better choice :-) and more fun anyway
		+
		+	===== Hardware =====
		+
		+	{{ ding:interior.jpg?200}}
		+	Here is the list of hardware currently used
		+
		+	* Intel Celeron 700MHz
		+	* [[http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket370/tuv4x/overview.htm\|Asus TUV4X]] mainboard
		+	* [[http://www.soundblaster.com/products/sblive/specs.asp\|Soundblaster Live Player! 5.1]]
		+	* [[http://www.veraxfans.com/\|Verax]] CPU Fan
		+	* [[http://www.qtechnology.net/main.html\|QTechnology UltraQuiet]] 250 Watt Powersupply
		+	* [[http://www.zapway.de/\|Serial Infrared Receiver]]
		+	* Gainward GeForce 2 Ti
		+	* ~380 MB SD-RAM
		+	* [[http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=support&pathtype=support&sku=3C905C-TX-M\|3Com 3C905C-TX-M]] 10/100Mbit NIC
		+	* [[http://www.lgeus.com/Product/CD/GSA_4040b.asp\|LG GSA-4040B]] DVD Multiformat Recorder
		+	* Sony Universal Remote Control
		+	* [[http://iuneed.com/3e.html\|DIGN 3E]] HTPC Case
		+	* MiroPCTV TV card
		+
		+	===== Setup =====
		+
		+	All the different parts of the setup have their own pages:
		+
		+	* [[ding:netboot\|Diskless System]]
		+	* [[ding:caselcd\|Case & LCD]]
		+	* [[ding:sound\|Soundsetup]]
		+	* [[ding:xserver\|XServer using TV-Out]]
		+	* [[ding:tvrecording\|TV recording]]

netboot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-06-04T19:40:33+00:00

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smixer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-06-04T19:35:45+00:00

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sound

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-06-04T19:40:45+00:00

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tvrecording

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-06-04T19:39:53+00:00

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xserver

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-06-21T18:09:35+00:00

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	===== Automating everything =====		===== Automating everything =====

-	I'm using mythtv as frontend and want to hav it start autmatically after booting the server.	+	I'm using mythtv as frontend and want to have it start autmatically after booting the server.

	For automatic X starting and login just install [[man>gdm]] give the default user in the "Security" tab of the configuration screen. Or when this doesn't work for you (it didn't for me) put the following in your ''/etc/gdm/gdm.conf'':		For automatic X starting and login just install [[man>gdm]] give the default user in the "Security" tab of the configuration screen. Or when this doesn't work for you (it didn't for me) put the following in your ''/etc/gdm/gdm.conf'':