I have always been able to watch a movie using kodi, downloading big files and ripping BD on the same time.

No problems, copy 6-8 movies at the same time over to my Synology box while watching tv with Kodi.

After I upgrade to Kubuntu 15.04 this was not possible anymore.
I was crushed by the fact I could only do 1 thing at the time.

First it was Kubuntu fault, tried all kinds of settings but no luck. No lost network packages.

It was until my daugther came to me and said: “Dad, Harry Potter, is chops and will not run smooth”. This was while I was downloading some big files.

Well, then it can’t be Kubuntu!!!

After moving wires around a bit I found out it was a switch make troubles.
A restart of the switch solved the problem.

So the next time I have network problems, the first thing I will be doing is:

RESTART the network hardware!!!

I really had some problems installing Kubuntu on my new computer.

When I tried to boot up the LiveCD I was presented a black screen with a lot of output from the Nouveau display driver (you might a complete black screen with a blinking cursor).

After some investigation I found out Grub had a option called nomodeset to prevent the Nouveau driver to start.

But HOW do I set this option when there is no menu or anyway to stop the boot up?

The only way I could figure out was to booth my LiveCD USB stick in UEFI mode and pressing F8 just after the computer bios was loaded.

There I was presented with option to

*Start Kubuntu
OEM install (for manufactorers)
Check disc for defects.

By pressing the ‘e’ key on the keyboard each menu item is editable.

Edit the line starting with "linux /casper..." and add the nomodeset somewhere, press F10 will start the LiveCD (see above gallery picture number 3).

After this change would the LiveCD boot up and I could install Kubuntu.

I had was the same problem with the Nouveau driver during boot up after the installation.
To solve this I had to install the Nvidia driver (I use the one from Xorg Edgers).

Press F8 just after the computer bios has loaded during bootup.

In the boot menu select the Start Kubuntu recover.
The will startup the recover menu.

In the recovery menu select: network.

This make sure you can download the new driver for the Nvidia GPU but it also make the hard disc writable. When starting up in recovery mode is the hard disc mounted as read only and nothing can be installed or modified.

Next start a shell as root select: root.

This startup a shell is where drivers and other configuration can be executed.
In the shell type:

$ apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

You will have to agree all kind of dangerous stuff that you are playing with (Its really not, its only a driver).

Next you can install the driver. At the moment is the nvidia-349 the latest so type:

$ apt-get install nvidia-349

The driver installs and when finished type

$ exit

This will return you to the recovery menu where you can continue the starting Kubuntu.

Select Continue booting Kubuntu.

When Kubuntu have started successful, reboot Kubuntu to make sure the system starts up normally. It would be a waste of time configuring everything and finding out the system will not start.

Have fun!

Source:

• http://askubuntu.com (can’t remember where, sorry)
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

The old dreamer

Install ipkg on a ds414 DSM 5

Actually there is no xsh bootstrap for the ds414 (Marvell Armada XP armv7l) although the existing Marvell Kirkwood mv6281 binaries “are ~ compatible” (http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/). So this is a small guide to setup manually the optware environment, which based partly on trepmag’s guide – many thanks.

Create optware root directory

$ mkdir /volume1/@optware
$ mkdir /opt
$ mount -o bind /volume1/@optware /opt

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/stable/syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh
chmod 700 syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh
sh syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh

Edit the bootstrap.sh file

vi bootstrap.sh

disable these lines by adding the # as line prefix

#if [ -e "$REAL_OPT_DIR" ] ; then
#    echo "Backup your configuration settings, then type:"
#    echo "  rm -rf $REAL_OPT_DIR"
#    echo "  rm -rf /usr/lib/ipkg"
#    echo "This will remove all existing optware packages."
#    echo
#    echo "You must *reboot* and then restart the bootstrap script."
#    exit 1
#fi

#if ! grep Feroceon-KW /proc/cpuinfo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
#    echo "Error: CPU not Marvell Kirkwood, probably wrong bootstrap.xsh"
#    exit 3
#fi

Run bootstrap

sh bootstrap.sh

Reboot your diskstation

/opt/bin/ipkg update

/opt/bin/ipkg list

/opt/bin/ipkg install pkg


Set PATH

Add the following line to /etc/profile:

PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH

Create init scripts

The following steps will allow to automatically bind the /volume1/@optware directory to /opt and trigger the /opt/etc/init.d/* scripts.

Create the /etc/rc.local file (chmod 755) and insert:

#!/bin/sh

# Optware setup
[ -x /etc/rc.optware ] && /etc/rc.optware start

Create the /etc/rc.optware file (chmod 755) and insert:

#! /bin/sh

if test -z "${REAL_OPT_DIR}"; then
# next line to be replaced according to OPTWARE_TARGET
REAL_OPT_DIR=/volume1/@optware
fi

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Starting Optware."
        if test -n "${REAL_OPT_DIR}"; then
            if ! grep ' /opt ' /proc/mounts >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
                mkdir -p /opt
                mount -o bind ${REAL_OPT_DIR} /opt
            fi  
        fi
    [ -x /opt/etc/rc.optware ] && /opt/etc/rc.optware
    ;;
    reconfig)
    true
    ;;
    stop)
        echo "Shutting down Optware."
    true
    ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reconfig}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0

(source: a working optware env)

Just bought my self a Asus GTX 970 and happily installed it.

Everything worked fine but I couldn’t get audio from the HDMI port to my receiver.
The only option I had was stereo and no sound from my speakers.

My previous card was an Asus 650 Ti Boost and it had no problems with 5.1 surround audio to my receiver. Actually there where the option of either sending it to the Display port or the HDMI port.

I also was using the latest 346.22 Nvidia driver from “xorg crack pushers” team.

So I was scratching my head for half a day until I remembered that there were some updates for Nvidia in the latest Linux kernels.

I checked the kernel version on my system and it was 3.13 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

At kernel.org I found the latest kernel to be 18.1 and packages could be downloaded from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.18.1-vivid

The new kernel was easy to install just follow the instructions at http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-kernel-3-18-1-on-ubuntu-15-04-ubuntu-14-10-ubuntu-14-04-and-derivatives

After a reboot was I able to set-up audio to use the HDMI port again.