[pablouchka]

I have been using XBMC4XBOX since many years. Recently, I decided to move to a more powerful hardware and selected a DELL OPTIPLEX 780 with 8GO o RAM and a Dell ATI Radeon HD 3450 256MB Low Profile graphics card (internal INTEL should be disabled by BIOS).

I downloaded XBMCbuntu (latest release : xbmcbuntu-12.2.Intel-AMD.iso) and successfully installed it.

Unfortunately, XBMC doesn't start at all and bring me back to the logon screen. I have been able to enter the desktop of Xbmcbuntu but was not able to start XBMC from it. I tried the live cd and got same "bad" result

by the way, I am quite new to Linux. Here is the log file I found... Any idea ?

log: http://pastebin.com/5zBMfhUH

[Martijn]

Use pastebin.com for log spam

[Kib]

I showed you how to do that next time.

[pablouchka]

Thanks guys !

[nickr]

Isn't that graphics card abandonware by ATI? Get nvidia.

[wsnipex]

it is, latest working driver is fglrx-legacy 12.6, but that is not compatible with the X-server in xbmcbuntu 12.2...

[pablouchka]

True

What do you think about that : http://www.unixmen.com/ubuntu-12-10-and-...em-solved/

Could this work ?

[wsnipex]

imho it does not work, as I said above. Thats why the makson96 ppa downgrades xorg, but this ppa already holds fglrx-legacy 13.1, which (I think) has broken v-sync in xbmc. You can try that and downgrade fglrx to 12.6 manually in case it doesn't work,

[pablouchka]

Wow... Too much information for my humble and newly introduced to Linux brain

I worked with Amiga, PC and MAC systems for many years but I am still very new to Linux. I selected XBMCbuntu because I really would like to get the same XBMC4XBOX feeling : "Turn on and enjoy"

So... I just learnt that :

PPA = Personal Package Archives (kind of setup)
fglrx = ATI driver that supports Xorg

There is a kind of mismatch between ATI drivers and Xorg versions that makes my setup doesn't work, isn't it ?

Is this right ?

[wsnipex]

Yes, AMD just sucks with their drivers on linux . And your card is old enough that they have moreless abandoned support for it.

[pablouchka]

Ok...

Is there an Ubuntu version that could handle with it or should I use the internal Intel GMA X4500 ?

I don't expect a lot... just being able to see 720P H264 videos (1080 ?)" In fact, the most important software I need is XBMC I won't really use the Linux running in background...

[wsnipex]

some reading: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=116996
use ubuntu 12.04 (precise), manually install fglrx-legacy as described in http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1138272

There are still caveats: h264 [email protected] might be choppy or broken due to only 256MB video RAM.