Lenovo Ideacentre Q150 with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
My system:
- Q150 + Nvidia Ion + Ubuntu 10.10 + HDMI + Lan
Wired Network:
- There are random eth0 errors which cable power is not detected. Simply, shut the system down for 5-10 seconds and reboot.
Nvidia Ion, HDMI:
- Most of the major issues are related to the Nvidia driver, and the opensource driver does not work in my case (overscanned). This could be fixed by using proprietary drivers:
- System -> Administration -> Additional Drivers -> Enable restricted drivers
Sound over HDMI, Wifi, XBMC (a nice home-theatre system):
- This article already covers the issues. I would suggest using XBMC for home entertainment than other media players for better performance.
Google Chromium with Nvidia Ion (fast and energy-wise):
- The updated version should support the hardware acceleration automatically. In order to get the most updated version read this article.
MPlayer/SMPlayer with Nvidia Ion:
- I prefer playing TV series on SMPlayer. To enable hardware acceleration and the ability to play HD movies, just do the following:
- Open SMPlayer
- Options -> Preferences -> General -> Video -> Output driver-> vdpau
- Performance -> Performance (bad naming, by the way) -> Allow hard frame drop
- Performance -> Performance -> H.256 -> Loop filter -> Skip (always)
- I can play up to 720p-h.264 movies on SMPlayer. In this case VDPAU is not as fast as I expected because you can still notice the video distortion from the hard frame drop. This could be a bug in MPlayer?. In the mean time, I would suggest XBMC for all media.
I’m having still having problems with eth0 detection on ubuntu 10.10 netbook , Lenovo Ideacentre Q150.
Tried waiting between power-cycling the system – that didn’t help.
Evgeni
15 Nov 10 at 05:51
After reboot have you tried “sudo ifconfig eth0 up”?
FYI, my /etc/network/interface contains the following:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
poomk
22 Nov 10 at 13:26
For what it’s worth, I have to physically disconnect the power supply between boots to get the NIC to work.
ffarmer
5 Apr 11 at 08:19
@ffarmer thanks for the comment. I still wonder what causes that NIC failure. If it is network booting feature, probably if it is switched off in the configuration we don’t really need to de-energize the circuit. Anyway, I don’t really want to set the whole thing up again just to be realised
poomk
8 Apr 11 at 12:50