[fubofo]

I have a screen size of 1920x1080 .. weird oO

Your screen is set to that, but is XBMC set to that? (check setting when launched)

Just found this on:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/tvs/26244...0x720.html

..1366 can be a real pain in the rear for a video card to deal with as the horizontal resolution has to be divisible by 8, therefore you end up with video cards that comfortably do 1360 or 1368 (former more than the later) When I was looking for a LCD TV, no 1 priority was the ability to 1:1 pixel mapping to a PC, I would have liked to get a 1280x720 LCD screen but they are not that many and surprisingly when you do find one they dont support that resolution over VGA or DVI...

Perhaps this might lead to finding the problem?

[CryNickSystems]

Still no solution
@fubofo:
No, this was not the problem .. didn't help at all.

[fubofo]

Maybe your issue is something else.
I can confirm and reproduce the 1366x768 non standard display issue time and again

[CryNickSystems]

XBMC is (in my case) set to 1920x1080 ..

[guizmo124]

Hi guys.

I think i have the same issue as you.
I have a sandy bridge i3
When xbmc is started from within gnome, I get the splash screen then X crash and restart with GDM.
I reproduced it with Archlinux + Dharma and Fedora16 + Eden.

It happens only if sandy bridge integrated GPU is activated. I tried to switch it off and put a Nvidia card instead => XBMC starts fine.
As other said, if started directly from X (not inside Gnome) or with another resolution, then this issue is not seen.

So to sum up the issue seems to happen only with the following condition:
- Intel Sandy bridge (Ivy Bridge ??) with Integrated graphics ON
- Gnome 3 set to the same resolution as XBMC

[guizmo124]

Hi again !

After searching a bit, i think the issue can be solved with the latest versions of mesa.
The following patch seems to address our problem : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/co...3d6a865b80

I tried with the beta of fedora 17 and it's working like a charm !

cheers

[CryNickSystems]

I can confirm this, it's finally fixed now

[CryNickSystems]

Great! I upgraded to the latest driver version for my iGPU and guess what?
It happens again

[CryNickSystems]

Ok, sry to bump this topic again but I found out the reason:
The commit from above is no longer applied in my newest installed version of mesa-common-dev (xorg-edgers-ppa).
I will try to compile mesa by myself.

[janvantonder]

This issue has been bugging me for ages, but I found a fix, Hallelujah!!!

Installing the Intel drivers according to this howto fixed the problem for me:

http://www.techlw.com/2012/08/install-la...rs-in.html

Summary:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:glasen/intel-driver
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

gksudo gedit

Add this to the file:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0″
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection

Save file as /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Hirs]

janvantonder, Thank you for the tip!! I was getting crashes also on pantheon-shell (elementary OS). It seems fixed now!!