2012-02-10, 23:56
Hi
I'm almost afraid to post this, but I feel that I have no other option, so here goes...
I am using an old laptop for mu XBMCbuntu-install. It features an Intel chipset and along with that an Intel GMA X4500 graphics chip. Not much us for anything but SD movies and such, but for the bedroom, it will suffice.
The install of XBMCbuntu was rather painless, Some minor issues with pink-colored install windows, but it seemed OK anyway.
OK, I'm not much good with Linux file systems and architecture, but I do know how to Google stuff up, but I'm at a total loss here...
Upon reboot after finished install I connected my laptop through the HDMI-interface to my fullHD tv. an operation that use to work on Windows-based XBMC installations, but this is when the fun start...
Upon connecting the HDMI and the computer booted up, the initial XBMC-splah seemed to display at high(est) resolution, but when the video driver was loaded, the screen just went crazy an any setting above 1024x768 just broke off and crammed that resolution onto the top-left corner of the screen. 1920x1080 wasn't even close to rendering properly, and getting a readable screen back was quite a pain...
I've tried various solutions to this problem, but the thing is that most of the fixes adheres to nVidia cards and/or older versions of *buntu or XBMC-Live...
For instance, I have no xorg.conf file. Trying to create a new one through the command;
That one gives a series of errors. I also tried to shut down gdm/lightgdm services beforehand, but that brought other problems. None of which has solved my problem...
Where do I even begin to solve this issue!
I'm almost afraid to post this, but I feel that I have no other option, so here goes...
I am using an old laptop for mu XBMCbuntu-install. It features an Intel chipset and along with that an Intel GMA X4500 graphics chip. Not much us for anything but SD movies and such, but for the bedroom, it will suffice.
The install of XBMCbuntu was rather painless, Some minor issues with pink-colored install windows, but it seemed OK anyway.
OK, I'm not much good with Linux file systems and architecture, but I do know how to Google stuff up, but I'm at a total loss here...
Upon reboot after finished install I connected my laptop through the HDMI-interface to my fullHD tv. an operation that use to work on Windows-based XBMC installations, but this is when the fun start...
Upon connecting the HDMI and the computer booted up, the initial XBMC-splah seemed to display at high(est) resolution, but when the video driver was loaded, the screen just went crazy an any setting above 1024x768 just broke off and crammed that resolution onto the top-left corner of the screen. 1920x1080 wasn't even close to rendering properly, and getting a readable screen back was quite a pain...
I've tried various solutions to this problem, but the thing is that most of the fixes adheres to nVidia cards and/or older versions of *buntu or XBMC-Live...
For instance, I have no xorg.conf file. Trying to create a new one through the command;
Code:
sudo Xorg -configure
That one gives a series of errors. I also tried to shut down gdm/lightgdm services beforehand, but that brought other problems. None of which has solved my problem...
Where do I even begin to solve this issue!