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XCI 1.0960 beta released - X3lectric - 2010-07-15

@ Fireman

Backup first I havent tested it yet, though its should be ok.

andy is MIA so its been only me for few months, this is why I am asking for peoples help, I need a ppa packager to help out with delivery systems and drivers, utilities etc...


- ppic - 2010-07-15

since i reinstalled my htpc and use svn with the tips you've provide, my htpc just can't shutdown, even with shutdown command, the system stop, but doesn't stop the computer, just have a black screen. any idea why ?

also, i didn't manage to login on xci forum, login link does not appear to be clickable.


- therealwakka - 2010-07-15

Now i used the 1.08 script(made a reset audio at the 1.09 script before) and now i have sound with hdmi AND optical!!!

Keep the good work guys!!!


- FireMan - 2010-07-15

Hi X3lectric,

Just reporting:

I've just tested the 1.960 in Lucid (fresh minimal install). I notice problems with NVidia drivers.
When installing the XBMC, I've selected NVidia 256 (actual stable, according with NVidia web site). Didn't install any driver... Run the script again and select 195. Again, didn't install any driver. Then my option was the oldest: 185. It didn't install the 185, but 195.36.24 according with XBMC's system info. Buth dpkg shows a mixed bag:

Code:
ii  nvidia-185-libvdpau                  195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04                        Transitional package for nvidia-185-libvdpau
ii  nvidia-current                       195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04                        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU libr
ii  nvidia-current-dev                   195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04                        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
ii  nvidia-glx-185                       195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04                        Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185
ii  nvidia-glx-185-dev                   195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04                        Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185-dev
ii  nvidia-settings                      195.36.24-0ubuntu0~lucid~pgquiles1              Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

The problem(s): I don't have image outside XBMC. No boot screen and no console trough CTL+ALT+[F1-F6]. Also, XBMC doen't work every boot (restarted the asrock about 10x and only work 4 to 5 times after install 185/195.36.24 drivers).
Then I tried 190. Again, just black screen after boot and it removed all nvidia drivers:

Code:
xbmc@ASRock:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
ii  libvdpau-dev                         0.4-3~lucid~nvidiavdpauppa1                     Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (development
ii  libvdpau1                            0.4-3~lucid~nvidiavdpauppa1                     Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (libraries)
ii  vdpauinfo                            0.0.6-1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa1

So, no luck with 256, 185, 190 or 195 trough xci 1.0960 @ lucid 10.04 LTS.

Cheers.


- X3lectric - 2010-07-16

@ Fireman

well I havent tested at all, hence why it says untested, but you offer no logs and without logs I cant fix it or attempt to. It is likely the 185 are restricted to karmic only. but 195 up should be lucid OK

I wont be able to determine anything, that is until I have time and patience to test it myself, looking at code there is no reason why drivers wouldn't install. Again no logs for anything were presented.

pls submit sum Smile

@ ppic

dont know what instructions you refer to, also forums are only available via login to sourceforge, they are not independent of.


- FireMan - 2010-07-16

My bad Wink

Here are the logs:

Code:
xci-installer.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901465
xci-video-change.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901466
xci-sound.log =
xci-remote.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901468
xci-temp.log =
xci-bluetooth.log =
xci-bootscreen.log =
xci-svn-ppa-setup.log =
xci-bluray-playback.log =
xci-svn-build.log =
xci-svn-update.log =
xci-system-update.log =
xci-system-upgrade.log =
xci-debug.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901470
aptitude.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901471
dpkg.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901472
messages.log = http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/1901475
xci-addons.log =

I'll test again tomorrow, from scratch.

Cheers.


- X3lectric - 2010-07-16

well the nvidia svn ppa doesnt have drivers for lucid so this could be why your getting this, problem is finding and adding both a decent drivers with vdpau and adding a variable for lucid...

As for xbmc I don't recommend sticking at SVN:26018 which is what it installs by default and upgrading to svn ppa is broken due to xbmc bug (see xci forums), needing to add svn ppa repo, purge old xbmc and installl new svn ppa xbmc by hand.

Some reason I dont think xbmc-live is getting installed either.

also idk whats going on with freaking remote.

I hate this, no wonder andy bailed out.

not sure what to do about that, dont expect anything in a rush anytime soon, I don't have so much time.


- nitr8 - 2010-07-16

FireMan

For lucid use sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates for 256.35


- burritoboy9984 - 2010-07-16

You could just stop xbmc, install the drivers found here for 32 bit or here for 64 bit, and restart xbmc. That is what I did.

-Erik


Broken HDMI audio issue... related to GRUB?? - phire - 2010-07-16

Installed XBMC via instructions on the first page using XCI on a Acer Aspire Revo last night. I installed it to a 4GB SD card with the following partition table:

/boot 100MB ext2
/var 250MB ext2
/ 3.x GB XFS

no swap partition. Now so far so good, everything runs as it should, am able to use the system and hdmi audio works by default (after running that part of the XCI script).

Upon bootup, I have a couple of aesthetic concerns that Ive attempted to resolve with no luck.

First, after the Acer splash, grub prints "Grub Loading." Guh. silent is being passed, not so silent.

Next it prints a warning that vga=788 modeline is deprecated, use setgfxpayload-800x600x16,800x600. fair enough, seems fine, i go into the grub configuration source files, make the change, re-run update-grub, and i see the changes in grub.cfg. Great! Reboot. The depricated command message is gone! At this point im happy, one small annoyance gone.

HOWEVER, once booted back into XBMC HDMI audio no longer works! Oo

The video mode is being set appropriately, everything else seems to work normally, just no audio via HDMI. Changing this setting back to the deprecated setting works great, audio magically fixes itself, but of course i still get that ugly alert Eek

Any ideas?


- X3lectric - 2010-07-17

@ phire

Grub loading cannot be removed, silent or not, if there is a way, I would like to know.

the vga=788 is done on purpose so that it fixes issues with dropping into terminal, it should be left alone, up to you., the alert flashes for a half second, it wouldn't be needed unless to workaround grub2 problems. However this shouldn't affect the audio, unless the option needs to be re-run.

So ideas yes, if it isn't broke don't fix it.Smile

@ everyone else regarding drivers

it would be great if you all emailed the nvidia vdpau ppa guy to kindly include lucid drivers as well, installing via pkg.run is not a good solution cause whenever a kernel upgrade happens, you have to do it all over again.

I am also looking for a ppa repository packager, to help out in project, pls pass word around.

greatly appreciated.


- phire - 2010-07-18

X3 i think the only way to stop the grub boot messages and make them completely silent is to download and modify the source to remove any print statements for its output. Something a bit out of reach for me at the moment, but would love to see a patch to accomplish this. I found someone who did this for grub, but not grub2.

As far as that message loading for half a second.. on my system it stays on screen for at least 2 seconds! Iits quite annoying. I suppose this could be due to my system booting from SD, but its just a PITA that setting the GFXmode in the new way breaks the HDMI audio, yet it does remove the message. it most certainly is this that is causing the issue, i can replicate it every single time.
SadSad


- sb206 - 2010-07-19

I have a Mainbord Asrock330Ion with a case from Antec with Display. Ist this script possible for this Hardware. I prefer a full install of Ubuntu 10.4. Is this possible with this script ?


- pletopia - 2010-07-19

well first .. script is designed to be run after a "minimal" ubuntu .. but i don't see why it wouldn't run after a full ubuntu install

however, lucid (10.4) support is beta so .. proceed at your own peril


- X3lectric - 2010-07-24

script runs on full ubuntu, however, not for xbmc 9.11 setup as this will break the install.

Other options are full desktop safe but I cant give list as I haven't tested or have interest in doing it). (not video drivers either).

Like pletopia says xbmc support in lucid is beta and a decent lucid script will be long coming, I have slowly started working on this, but again there is little reason to push for it.