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- prupert - 2011-01-01 Anyone managed to get XBMC on a minimal install of Maverick on the Revo shutting down and restarting via XBMC? It seems Ubuntu in their infinite wisdom have removed polkit-auth and not replaced it with any similiar tool, so there is no obvious way to give xbmc the ability to shutdown the machine. Seems a common thread in ubuntu, make very odd and often stupid decisions..... - Uuaww - 2011-01-02 prupert Wrote:This is happening because XBMC is notproperly installed, so it isn't loading, so you are seeing the standard login screen.im not seeing the standard login screen all i see is a tiny white box that says xbmc something (cant read it) another sentence after it, and then a big grey box in the white box that says quit. i can't click or anything. - prupert - 2011-01-02 hmm, that doesn't sound right....can you use SSH to log in to the box (you can do this from a ubuntu pc using "ssh -l loginyoucreated for XBMCBox IPADDRESSOFXBMCBox" or using Putty on windows. Then run the remaining commands from that login. - Uuaww - 2011-01-02 no can do, only have a mac other than my revo.... I actually wouldn't mind just reloading xbmc 10.0 onto the revo and starting over but I can't create a bootable flash drive with a mac.... oy... - prupert - 2011-01-02 You can use this apparently: http://www.rbrowser.com/ to log in via SSH on a mac. - Uuaww - 2011-01-02 any chance i could get some live help, I am new to this and even what ssh is... - prupert - 2011-01-02 sorry I can't be more help. With regards to creating a bootable flash disk, apparently if you install WINE and unetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ (choose the windows download as WINE allows you to install and run windows programs on a mac) you can use unetbootin to create a bootable flash disk. I got all this from googling though, so I may be wrong. Best of luck. - Uuaww - 2011-01-02 wine and macports are beyond me, im pretty much s.o.l. i need to figure out another way to load xbmc on my revo... - JeremySt - 2011-01-02 I just gave xbmc live a shot. downloaded the latest official release. I get an XBMC screen for about 2 minutes, then I get a prompt asking for password? ?? - Uuaww - 2011-01-02 try xbmc for password - schneidz - 2011-01-02 JeremySt Wrote:I just gave xbmc live a shot. downloaded the latest official release.since i upgraded to xbmc-10-live i get a login prompt that disappears after about 2 minutes... - schneidz - 2011-01-02 Uuaww Wrote:wine and macports are beyond me, im pretty much s.o.l. are you able to ctrl-alt-f2 to another terminal ? does this work to upgrade: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=670784 ? - edbro - 2011-01-02 Uuaww Wrote:wine and macports are beyond me, im pretty much s.o.l. You could get a usb cd drive and load it or install it from that. You can get them for less than $25. - Uuaww - 2011-01-05 schneidz Wrote:are you able to ctrl-alt-f2 to another terminal ? YES! got me to the next step and allowed me to relogin.... champion. oy but still no dice, i get the white box with the quit button still. i think i can make out the word drivers in the text... the first sentence I cant make out... the 2nd sentence says please install an appropriate graphics driver (i think) - Uuaww - 2011-01-05 schneidz Wrote:does this work to upgrade: hi, i was trying to create an xbmc-live-10 usb from the iso but i keep having problems of it not being able to boot: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php...88&page=76#754 so i re-flashed my usb using dd to xbmc-live-9 (good thing i made a backup). i booted up my acer revo using xbmc-live-9. i ssh'd into it from another pc (xbmc/xbmc for login/pass). and i ran: Code: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install xbmc i don't understand "dd" or "ssh'd" plus I can't create a bootable flash (mac only" |