XBMC Live with ATI/AMD graphics controller boots to black screen?

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- linko - 2008-10-02 11:57

Has anyone got it to run with 780G (HD3200) ?

- linko - 2008-10-04 17:37

Nevermind, it's working now. Ran:
aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Btw, you cant run aticonfig in safe mode.
Only problem now is that I have no sound =)

- Mojonba - 2008-10-05 20:48

I got it working with a Radeon 9550 but Im getting video corruption while playing a movie. Corruption is sort of weird beacuse the screen like divided in 4 parts (think playing multiplayer first person shooter) and the upper right quadrant is not corrupted the other three are. Any help will be appreaciated.

- cloud79 - 2008-10-06 08:53

Mojonba Wrote:I got it working with a Radeon 9550 but Im getting video corruption while playing a movie. Corruption is sort of weird beacuse the screen like divided in 4 parts (think playing multiplayer first person shooter) and the upper right quadrant is not corrupted the other three are. Any help will be appreaciated.

You'll need to do this:
Under /usr/share/xbmc/userdata i had to create advancedsettings.xml with this content

Code:

<advancedsettings>

  <glrectanglehack>1</glrectanglehack>

</advancedsettings>

- jochenz - 2008-10-06 12:41

jochenz Wrote:I made a brand new xorg.conf and the systems boots just fine now.

Ati mobility X2300 works just fine now.

thanks man!

I have to get back on that comment. Everything works fine, untill I end the movie using "X" on my keyboard. Or by stopping it using te mouse pressing "STOP" in de controls.

The screen turns black. I still hear the controls in tha background, but there is no screen. When I kill the X using ALT-CTRL-BACKSPACE I get into the Windowmanager. I then start xbmc again using a Xterm.

- cloud79 - 2008-10-06 17:28

jochenz Wrote:I have to get back on that comment. Everything works fine, untill I end the movie using "X" on my keyboard. Or by stopping it using te mouse pressing "STOP" in de controls.

The screen turns black. I still hear the controls in tha background, but there is no screen. When I kill the X using ALT-CTRL-BACKSPACE I get into the Windowmanager. I then start xbmc again using a Xterm.

Seems to be a bug. You can get back to the "home" screen by pressing tab on the keyboard while you play, then press stop. Else you got the black screen problem.

(Think i have found every bug in the livecd). The stop playback bug, wrong playbackspeed cause of improper audio output device, networking sometimes doesn't come up and the glrectanglebug and the xorg.conf problem with ATI graphics.

- jochenz - 2008-10-06 22:04

cloud79 Wrote:Seems to be a bug. You can get back to the "home" screen by pressing tab on the keyboard while you play, then press stop. Else you got the black screen problem.

(Think i have found every bug in the livecd). The stop playback bug, wrong playbackspeed cause of improper audio output device, networking sometimes doesn't come up and the glrectanglebug and the xorg.conf problem with ATI graphics.

thanks, using first TAB and then X fixed the "black screen" after stopping playback.

I tried it also on my Asus M2A-VM HDMI with onboard X1250. It boots just fine into XBMC. But in playback I get the playback in 4 parts. I killed XBMC, tried the < glrectanglehack> , then restarted XBMC using an Xterm. But it still played back in 4 parts. please advise some more. thank you!

- cloud79 - 2008-10-06 22:46

jochenz Wrote:thanks, using first TAB and then X fixed the "black screen" after stopping playback.

I tried it also on my Asus M2A-VM HDMI with onboard X1250. It boots just fine into XBMC. But in playback I get the playback in 4 parts. I killed XBMC, tried the < glrectanglehack> , then restarted XBMC using an Xterm. But it still played back in 4 parts. please advise some more. thank you!

have you tripplechecked that you spelled everything right? Filename + content in file?

You can also try to create the advancedsettings.xml under /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata

- idioteque - 2008-10-09 15:35

same thing here.

ATI HD3850 boots fine till spash, than stays there. console says loading

- afail - 2008-10-09 16:56

ok heres my issue (i know little to nothing about linux so hopefully this can be a learning experience):

Seems to install fine and likewise I get a blank screen (no signal) when booting

on a windows machine I copy and pasted the xorg.conf file into the config folder on the drive. When I do this, it boots and prompts me for the username and password. After I login, I dont know how to launch xbmc.

I have an ATI Radeon 9600. I am guessing that the default configuration is trying to use a resolution I cannot support but have no idea how to get a command prompt without placing that conf file on the drive.

I tried CTRL + ALT + F2 and can see everything booting up but then it goes to a blank screen.

Thank you ahead of time!