XMBC 11 on FreeBSD 9 - X11 configuration
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Intro : I am new to both FreeBSD and XBMC.
Yes, I do want this combination because of my NAS needs.
I have not configured an X environment before.

Setup : XBMC 11 on FreeBSD 9 connected to Samsung PN51D7000 plasma TV (1080p /51") via HDMI
Graphics card - NVidia 550 Ti (PCIe)

While I get my videos to play, I don't believe I am getting a good resolution( or what I should be getting with all the hardware I have behind this setup). I have had no luck configuring Xorg - failed miserably with customizing DPI. No luck in finding specs for my TV, either.

Anyone with a similar setup ? Or, any hints on how to approach this ?

Thanks

------------------XBMC log(no errors)----------------------
22:50:10 T:34670146560 M:11954085888 NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: FreeBSD (9.0-RELEASE amd64). Built on Dec 6 2011 (Git:Unknown
)
:22:50:11 T:34670146560 M:11940610048 NOTICE: GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation
22:50:11 T:34670146560 M:11940610048 NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
22:50:11 T:34670146560 M:11940610048 NOTICE: GL_VERSION = 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.49
22:50:11 T:34670146560 M:11940610048 NOTICE: GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION = 4.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
22:50:11 T:34670146560 M:11940610048 NOTICE: GL_EXTENSIONS = .........

---------------xorg.conf------------------------------
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti]"
EndSection
:
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection
:
------------------------Xorg.log-----------------------------
(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:1244:1043:83bc nVidia Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] rev 161, Mem @ 0xf4000000/33554432, 0xe0000000/
134217728, 0xe8000000/67108864, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
(II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "record" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
(II) "dri2" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
:
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) May 22 20:02:00 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
(II) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 550 Ti (GF116) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 1048576 kBytes
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.26.20.00.00
(II) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce GTX 550 Ti at
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): PCI:1:0:0
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): SAMSUNG (DFP-1)
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): SAMSUNG (DFP-1): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): SAMSUNG (DFP-1): Internal Single Link TMDS
(**) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for display
(**) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): device SAMSUNG (DFP-1) (Using EDID frequencies has been
(**) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): enabled on all display devices.)
(II) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-1
(==) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0):
(==) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(==) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode.
(==) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0):
(II) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1080
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (43, 43); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) May 22 20:02:01 NVIDIA(0): option













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I am pretty sure you did try

/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-xconfig

but if you have not give that a go


I have created an account just for XBMC so it auto starts

/home/XBMC/.xinitrc


#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/local/bin/xbmc --standalone





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