Working at last
After a break in Hungary, I came back to this project.
To cut a tale of trying out the PSU from my windows desktop in the new box and from the new box in my windows PC short, after a bit of boshing about it finally works. To a point. I cannot, for the life of me, get the front panel power button working. I'm still messing about turning it on by shorting the power pins with a screwdriver.
On to installing linux.
In the end I decided to try out Ubuntu 7.04 as a first foray into Linux. I don't know who makes up the version code names for Ubuntu, but Feisty Fawn? Oh please.
Installing it is an absolute breeze though, even for a complete linux novice. Download an ISO from their website, burn it to a cd, make sure the optical drive is first boot device and let it boot.
I could write a poorly-informed installation guide, but there's a very comprehensive and knowledgeable one written here.
The only trouble I had was with screen resolutions. Initially, when I ran it with the default option from the CD, the bottom of the install wizard, with the Forward/Back buttons on it, was below the bottom of the screen. Evidently not designed for widescreen resolutions. After that it was plain sailing to install. After installation it took a little bit of reading and messing about to get more screen resolutions added that weren't the standard 4:3 ratios. It all came down to adding a bit to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Once it had all installed, I could go and select which packages to install or uninstall from the repositories.
That's as far as I got. Next stage is to get the case switch working, and to add the TV card.
2 comments:
The power switch problem sounds strange - mine went together without any such problems...
What have you got connected up inside? There were a whole bunch of things that I struggled with for a while:
There's a hdd-molex (blue/white), a small purple/red (IIRC) connector under the CDRom bay, and the separate black/red power header connectors. Perhaps one of these has been missed and is necessary? Also, don't know if it makes much difference whether the switch pins are connected around one way or the other?
I can pop open my case to check what I did if you like...
Hi Mark,
Yeah, the power switch thing is odd. I tested it by connecting the reset switch cables to the power switch header on the motherboard. Now the reset switch functions as a power button, so I got in touch with antec who are sending me a new power switch.
Should be fun trying to take apart the front panel to install it :)
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