DejaVu Wrote:Installing using Oneiric Minimal is not an option for me. My Wifi card is not detected by it (I only have a Wifi card in this device!)

I've since downloaded the full 11.10 Ubuntu CD with the hope of installing a minimal CLI version of Ubuntu from that which does include the driver - but no dice - I couldnt work out or google the correct answer.

Can anyone assist getting a Minimal install on my system so I can attempt to do this please?!

grad Wrote:Hello,

first off, huge thanks for this effort. It made me - finally - seriously consider dumping the MythTV frontend.

However, there's one BIG showstopper: in MythTV, I used to have the player automatically switch the screen to the proper refresh rate, most notably 24p. While XBMC seems to support this, and even actually and properly xrandr's to the correct mode, the display is totally garbled. It's ok when I escape out of fullscreen mode back into the menu. xrandr works just fine on the console, and of course in the MythTV frontend.

Everything else seems to work just fine, including advanced shaders, XvBA, and shared surfaces. When I turn off all XvBA options, the problem persists.

My system: RS 780G Radeon HD 3200 on Mythbuntu 10.04 Natty. Compositing turned off in xfwm4. Catalyst 11.12. Using the xbmc-xvba ppa. I did turn on debugging and analysed the log, no apparent errors. Anything else needed to pinpoint the cause?

Thanks for any help and pointers!

fritsch Wrote:This works fine with us. Could you give the output of xrandr -q?

fritsch Wrote:Does it work, if you switch the mode in xfwm before and just leave it untouched in xbmc?

EmuMannen Wrote:Hi guys and thanks for a fantastic job so far. I finally decided to remove my nVidia card and try this setup with the onboard gfx (I'm on a ASUS E35M1-M mobo). I have followed the guidelines in this thread and it works, sort of but I experience some problems (both with the initial setup yesterday and the new binaries today after an apt-get update).

First of all, is there a python-simplejson dependency? I noticed some error messages in the log initially generated by the weather plugin. It was complaining about an simplejson import error. A "sudo apt-get install python-simplejson" took care of that problem.

The rest is a bit more problematic. It seems like xbmc always crash on boot and then another instance seems to get respawned. I guess this is what happens becuase it takes quite some time before the xbmc ui shows up after a reboot and there is always a new xbmc_crashlog-xxxxxxxx_xxxxxx.log in ~ and the content is the same as in ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.old.log. Some of the errors are also in the running instances ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log, anyone got something similar in their log files? Error lines from the crashlog:

Code:

/home/xbmc# cat xbmc_crashlog-20111218_145406.log | grep ERROR
[color=Red]13:49:41 T:139836123625344   ERROR: GLX: Same window as before, refreshing context
13:49:42 T:139836123625344   ERROR: Keymapping error: no such action 'language' defined
13:49:42 T:139836123625344   ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer
13:49:42 T:139836123625344   ERROR: CZeroconfAvahi::addService(): failed to add service named:XBMC JSONRPC@$(HOSTNAME) type:_xbmc-jsonrpc._tcp port:8080. Error:Invalid Error Code :/ FIXME!
13:49:43 T:139835679405824   ERROR: SetThreadInfo: error Permission denied
14:19:44 T:139835687798528   ERROR: SetThreadInfo: error Permission denied
14:49:45 T:139835687798528   ERROR: SetThreadInfo: error Permission denied[/color]

wsnipex Wrote:can you try this please:
edit /etc/security/limits.conf
add following line at the end of the file:

Code:

xbmc             -       nice            -1

this should get rid of the Permission denied errors.

and thanks for reporting the missing python dependency.

about the crashes @boot. This probably has nothing to do with xvba, but its interesting and probably annoying nonetheless.
Maybe xbmc is being started too soon. Could you pastebin one of those crash logs?