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+--- Thread: [LIVE] HOW-TO install XBMC Live on Acer Aspire Revo - The Complete Guide for Newbies (/showthread.php?tid=53888)
- Scott R - 2010-01-28 17:03
Have you been powering off/on completely, using Standby mode, or leaving it on all the time? If one of the latter two, I would try rebooting it, if you haven't already. If that doesn't help, your problem sounds more like a networking issue.
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 01:50
First of all, thanks for the detailed instructions on installing XBMC on Acer Aspire Revo!
I purchased the Acer Aspire Revo AR1600-U910H model and managed to get XBMC installed easily enough on it. I set up the BIOS as instructed, however I'm gonna do a swap with RAM because I am noticing a bit of lag here and there with full resolution 1080p video... and also with the menus, especially in cover flow... I am hoping to get it running silky smooth in the near future but my question is: will more RAM actually fix these issues? Or is this have to do with the CPU/GPU? (Note: I did purchase the low-end Aspire Revo)
My other question is, how do I set permission for me to upload skins into /usr/share/xbmc/skin ? I see the skins in there, but I cannot upload. I would like to get Aeon running (and I understand it's an intensive skin, so hopefully 2GB of DDR3 RAM will fix this?) Anyways, I've tried setting the permissions to the folder in Cyberduck to be 777 but it's telling me I don't have the permissions to do so. Also, please note that I am not a Mac expert by any means with Terminal, so if Terminal is the only way to do this please be as specific as possible.
Thanks!
- gabbott - 2010-01-29 01:57
revlimiter Wrote:My other question is, how do I set permission for me to upload skins into /usr/share/xbmc/skin ? I see the skins in there, but I cannot upload. I would like to get Aeon running (and I understand it's an intensive skin, so hopefully 2GB of DDR3 RAM will fix this?) Anyways, I've tried setting the permissions to the folder in Cyberduck to be 777 but it's telling me I don't have the permissions to do so. Also, please note that I am not a Mac expert by any means with Terminal, so if Terminal is the only way to do this please be as specific as possible.
Thanks!
Put the skins in your home directory instead. It is something like .xbmc/skins from the home directory. Then you dont have to worry about permissions.
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 02:00
I am also hearing static noise (very loud!) with some movies when I set my audio to Digital. When I set it to Analogue the noise seems to work, but the noise in some TV shows seems to be a little bit distorted (high pitch). Any ideas?
And one more thing: It won't let me mark the entire TV show as watched when I right click on the show "mark as watched", I need mark each show as watched individually. Is this an issue with XBMC Live? It works on XBMC for Mac.
Thanks!
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 02:00
gabbott Wrote:Put the skins in your home directory instead. It is something like .xbmc/skins from the home directory. Then you dont have to worry about permissions.
Thanks, Gabbot. How do I navigate to the .xbmc directory? I am not seeing it anywhere in Cyberduck
Edit: oops, nevermind - I had to View Hidden Files
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 02:27
OK, now I've ran into another problem.. And it wasn't doing this before
But every time I launch a video, it shows 1 second of the film and then goes back to the home screen. What could have caused this? Pretty sure I didn't mess with any of the settings..
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 02:28
OK, now I've ran into another problem.. And it wasn't doing this before
But every time I launch a video, it shows 1 second of the film and then goes back to the home screen. What could have caused this? Pretty sure I didn't mess with any of the settings..
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 02:32
Hmm, sorry about the repost - not too sure why that happened either lol
I'm gonna try installing XBMC Live 9.11 with updated ION drivers to see if this fixes it
- jas722 - 2010-01-29 03:04
I just got my Revo and installed xbmc Live on to the Main Hard Drive, I got everything just about working including Sound through HDMI, SMB Shares etc.
One thing I just can't seem to figure out thou, how do I get 1080P resolution out of this thing?
The highest resolution available is 720 x 480. I changed the line in xorg.conf to "DynamicTwinView" "False" but the only thing that did was make 60 hz available and not 50 hz. The highest resolution is still only 720 x 480 :-(
I have the xbmc going through my Yamaha RX-V3900, I don't see why that would be an issue but might hook it directly to the TV to see if that solves anything.
Any help would be great
- revlimiter - 2010-01-29 03:05
Ok in the first post it says
Quote:3) Addings Nvidia Drivers to the XBMC-Live Installer:But I'm looking at the release for XBMC Live 9.11 Camelot http://xbmc.org/team-xbmc/2009/12/24/xbmc-9-11-camelot/ and it says "NVIDIA drivers: 190.53 (VDPAU included on supported GPUs)"
First you need to download XBMC-Live and then add the Nvidia drivers to the ISO. You can either do this yourself with an iso editer (UltraISO) or download this ISO of XBMC Live 9.04.1 with the updated NVIDIA.185_18_14 drivers allready added: http://www.fusedimages.com/xbmc.zip (thanks Duplo)
Does that mean I won't need to add the ION driver to the Camelot distro?