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XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - GBouerat - 2014-01-11

Hello,

I have a Mac Mini 2012 on OS X Mavericks‎ with two display : a dell monitor on displayport and my TV Sony on HDMI.

XBMC 12.3 is set two start fullscreen on my tv, and I often have a black screen on my two displays and I can't do anything so I restart my mac.

Any ideas to fix that ? What can I do instead of reboot ?

thnaks


RE: XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - wgstarks - 2014-01-11

You should post a Debug log (wiki). That may show the cause of the problem.


RE: XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - Ned Scott - 2014-01-11

For starters, command+tab will switch you back to the Finder so you don't have to force reboot.

Then debug log (wiki).


RE: XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - GBouerat - 2014-01-12

command+tab has no effect,
All I can do is connect to my mac mini via SSH en reboot ...

after killall XBMC and killall Dock my two screens stray black.


RE: XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - The_MjW - 2014-01-30

(2014-01-11, 17:12)GBouerat Wrote: Hello,

I have a Mac Mini 2012 on OS X Mavericks‎ with two display : a dell monitor on displayport and my TV Sony on HDMI.

XBMC 12.3 is set two start fullscreen on my tv, and I often have a black screen on my two displays and I can't do anything so I restart my mac.

Any ideas to fix that ? What can I do instead of reboot ?

thnaks

How does one set XBMC to start in the second display?


RE: XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - wgstarks - 2014-01-30

Set Video Output to Full Screen #2.


RE: XBMC 12.3 black screens at startup on Mavericks‎ - The_MjW - 2014-01-31

(2014-01-30, 22:54)wgstarks Wrote: Set Video Output to Full Screen #2.

Thank you. I spent the last couple of moths switching mirroring on and off. lol