I bought the recently released Shuttle XS35GS V3 (also called XS35GTA V3) to use as a mythtv frontend. As usual, nothing works correctly first time round and there were a few things I needed to set up manually to get it working correctly.<\/p>\n
1) I had problems with the onboard wifi - it would apparently connect then as soon as you tried to use the connection various errors messages would appear in the debug log. 2) I connected the shuttle via HDMI cable to the TV, unfortunately no sound was transmitted initially. The shuttle model I chose has an ATI chipset, so I first tried installing ATI binary drivers: 3) Using the latest version of fglrx-updates (2:8.960-0ubuntu1.1) I found that switching the TV (connected via HDMI) off then on again caused the sound to stop working, requiring a system reboot. I downloaded the drivers from the ATI website<\/a> and the issue was solved. The latest version at the time I downloaded was catalyst 12.6, which generated packages with a version of 8.980 (in contrast to the Ubuntu packages which are version 8.960).<\/p>\n 4) The bios version that came with my device (1.00) had two problems. When requesting a restart, the machine would instead shutdown. Secondly the Ubuntu 64-bit installer didn't believe that 64-bit could be installed so I had to install 32-bit. (I'm about 90% certain that you should be able to install 64-bit on the Atom D2700).<\/p>\n
\nJul\u00a0 5 10:37:18 bedroom kernel: [\u00a0 157.712828] rtl8192c_common:rtl92c_firmware_selfreset(): 8051 reset fail.
\nJul\u00a0 5 10:37:23 bedroom kernel: [\u00a0 162.696823] rtl8192ce:_rtl92ce_llt_write():<0-0> Failed to polling write LLT done at address 0!
\nJul\u00a0 5 10:37:23 bedroom kernel: [\u00a0 162.696833] rtl8192ce:rtl92ce_hw_init():<0-0> Init MAC failed<\/code>
\nSo I disabled the wifi in the bios and used a USB wifi stick for the time being. I may end up installing a cable if wifi does not give adequate streaming performance for mythtv.<\/p>\n
\nsudo apt-get install fglrx-updates<\/code>
\nAfter that I listed the drivers and played test sounds on each device with VLC until I found which one worked.
\nfrankster@bedroom:~$ aplay -l
\n**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
\ncard 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
\nSubdevices: 1\/1
\nSubdevice #0: subdevice #0
\ncard 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
\nSubdevices: 1\/1
\nSubdevice #0: subdevice #0
\ncard 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
\nSubdevices: 1\/1
\nSubdevice #0: subdevice #0<\/code>
\nVLC confirmed that the final device \"HD-Audio Generic\" is the correct one so the next step is to apply that setting inside mythtv. Unforunately the list inside mythtv is different to what I saw in the output of \"aplay -l\", but I worked out that mythtv describes it thus:
\nhdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0<\/code><\/p>\n