[fritsch]

All fine - all there.

[Kokos]

Hi guys,

I wonder if this completely normal thing.. I built the system based on E350 sticking to your guidelines. It works fine, however I noticed that CPU utilization for xbmc.bin process is 35-40 % when the system is completely idle..

Please let me know if I should worry about this.

Thanks.
K

[wsnipex]

turn off rss feed and/or very dynamic skins. i.e try confluence on home screen with rss off

[Kokos]

turn off rss feed and/or very dynamic skins. i.e try confluence on home screen with rss off

Thank you, wsnipex..

I use Aeon Nox skin and I have one RSS feed enabled...

So I assume RSS and this skin can consume pretty much 40% of CPU just like that even though the xbmc is idle and nothing but scrolling RSS feed is happening? Sounds little bit crazy to me, is there any reason it needs 40% for practically nothing? Seriously, I'm trying to understand. Thanks.

K

[fritsch]

Aeon Nox - haha - funny your question.

Check /proc/cpuinfo - if the CPU is downclocking itself to 800 Mhz then the CPU usage is not really a lot. Constantly updating an OpenGL GUI is also stressing the CPU.

[MathewCNichols]

Fritsch,

I haven't received any replies on the ALSA thread. Anssi never replied back either. It looks like the 2 channel kernel issue was completely overlooked (probably for bigger bugs.)

Is there any magic you could work to flag this issue?

[fritsch]

Not really, sorry.

You could try the following:
- Try kernel 3.13.0
- Try kernel 3.14.0

And see if that has the same issue - furthermore you can try those kernel here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5572..._amd64.deb

As fglrx is working and radeon is non working - you might want to forward this from the ALSA ML to the drm-devel mailing list as it might be an drm issue.

[xtdv]

I have trouble with shutdown menu in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty). Some variables in polkit-1 have been changed.

The file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla should look like this:

Code:

[Actions for xbmc user]
Identity=unix-user:xbmc
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.reboot;org.freedesktop.login1.reboot-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.power-off;org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.suspend;org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

[Untrusted Upgrade]
Identity=unix-user:xbmc
Action=org.debian.apt.upgrade-packages;org.debian.apt.update-cache
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

More information: http://askubuntu.com/questions/453479/ho...m-in-14-04

[fritsch]

Not really - it seems you are using logind only? with the other packages the howto suggests it should just work as it was before.

[xtdv]

Not really - it seems you are using logind only? with the other packages the howto suggests it should just work as it was before.

I run into this issue when upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 with XBMC 12 to 14.04 with XBMC 13 (clean install everything).
I'm not sure about logind but I don't install or use any desktop management, just only X-11 and xbmc-bin standalone.

[Spartach]

Kernel 3.16 released
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mai...16-utopic/

[fritsch]

Not really - it seems you are using logind only? with the other packages the howto suggests it should just work as it was before.

I run into this issue when upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 with XBMC 12 to 14.04 with XBMC 13 (clean install everything).
I'm not sure about logind but I don't install or use any desktop management, just only X-11 and xbmc-bin standalone.

I verified the howto working from scratch when 14.04 came out - most likely some other package was missing. But will have a look when I setup a new system next time. Thanks for contributing.

[Claudio.Sjo]

Hi,
I have a question on audio for XBMC.
Recently I was forced to install pulseaudio on my desktop, because I use skype and their latest revision 4.3 doesn't support Alsa any longer.
XBMC seems to be happy anyhow.
Is the latest XBMC possible to fully run on pulseaudio as well? I mean with HDMI and SPDIF transparent mode?
If so, would you recommend to install pulseaudio even on an HTPC?

Thanks

[fritsch]

Just read the wiki, all there: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PulseAudio

[Claudio.Sjo]

Just read the wiki, all there: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PulseAudio

Thanks!
What a very well written Wiki!