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as I said: xbmcbuntu pre is using my packages, so xbmc-wise its the same as just using my ppa only.
I suggest the upgrade to ubuntu 12.04, as there are some strange things going on with oneiric and
because there are a couple of fixes in the new xbmcbuntu builds(apart from just ubuntu upgrades), its probably best to reinstall.
When Frodo becomes final, you can just remove my ppa and use the official one.
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I haven't had any time to follow this topic close enough so I have missed a bunch of messages here. What I would like to add is that 12.04 did seem to solve the problems, until some update recently and now XBMC seems to be back to it's old behaviour. I suspect it is kernel related because it appears to have started with me after a kernel upgrade.
The freeze behaviour is a little different now though. Instead of freezing and using the | key to go to windowed mode and back to fullscreen mode again doesn't snap XBMC out anymore. I have to shutdown the PC in order to get out of the crash. So it might not be the same problem, or it might have been worstened by a system update.
To make sure it is not something to do with my NVidia drivers again, I just added the x-swat repo and updated to their latest NVidia package. I will report back when I can and when I have been able to watch some media on the media center.
I don't think it is as simple as upgrading to 12.04 anymore...
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After some trouble with installing the latest NVidia drivers through X-Swat (it appeared I also had nvidia-current-updates installed and this resulted in two nvidia drivers with different versions installed on my system). Anyway, now that I have 304.34 installed I can say that for me the current problems are not nvidia driver related. The system was playing a couple of episodes and after about the 5th episode of some series, XBMC froze. I will have to see if I can make it happen again and extract a logfile. Also, I am going to see if downgrading the kernel helps, just to pinpoint the problem.
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As mentioned earlier in this thread. The issue was identified quite a while ago and is already fixed in OE 2 beta and some other repos mentioned here. There is a pull request to mainline and I am working on getting this merged into mainline.
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2012-11-12, 03:58
(This post was last modified: 2012-11-12, 04:03 by jgme.)
I dont know if anyone else has done this but I have a Acer R1600 and was having the freezing problem also. I logged out of xbmc and logged into xbmcbuntu, opened the terminal and added the x-updates ppa to update to the latest nvidia driver. You will have to do a apt-get dist-upgrade because the apt-get will report that the drivers have been kept back but after the dist-upgrade they will all install. So its
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
No sure if this fixes the freezing, only been testing for a few hours but no freezes yet.
Edit: Nevermind just read the post a few comments back :-P
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Well the problem has followed me along to Frodo. I'm RC2 and I just had the same thing happen.