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I know what the FAQ says about posting,but, since at the end of boot all I get is a blank black screen, there is little to show or control. system is an old HP Pavillion, AMD 3400+ gig and a half of ram nvidia GF FX5500, plugged into a 40" Samsung via hdmi. its a multiboot with an uncooperative windoze xp, and mint 17 XFCE, so I can search for files from there but thats about it, Oh, one of the few resposes to searches was about editing the xorg.conf to include the opt 120 x 120 fix, tried that. no diference, well, still a black screen, no cursor, just black, initially I thought the TV had switched off. The DVD was produced from a download I did from the xbmc site a couple of weeks ago, it did what I have just described, thought there was a corruption, downloaded and checked the checksum, verified the disk reinstalled, same result.
any ideas?
I have been using xbmc variations for a while, two of the 4xbox versions, a version on a flash drive and verisions on android and one on the tiny little notebook I am currently typing on.
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no, that GFX card is very old and is not supported by the current nvidia drivers anymore. You need the legacy driver.
try switching to the console and installing nvidia-173
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2014-09-04, 13:51
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-04, 14:00 by un1versal.)
You simply have the wrong drivers installed, 331 will not support this card, also xbmc/kodi Suggest a 6 series as minimum and or a 8 series or newer. But your card still supports gl2.0 which is minimum for xbmc/kodi, install correct drivers then. But dont expect any video hardware acceleration or a fast anything on there.
At some stage in the hardware life you will have to either accept technology cant be held back by old outdated hardware even though it may still work or just refuse to use newer software that requires newer tech. You know these companies "they" conspire and "they" out to get your money!
* un1versal hears greedy CEO go muwahahaha
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2014-09-04, 21:19
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-04, 21:19 by wsnipex.)
just make sure no other, newer drivers are installed. (Which they are by default). Its possible that the wrong one gets loaded in that case
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nope, still ongoing. tried Zabalkz suggestion, replacing the driver, still nothing. Tho I think that it's just not connecting to it, Purged the others. Currently considering digging out an older version to see if that handles it better, tho another system I have I am trrying to use an even older driver on. The trick will be to work out why the drivers arn't being used and how to encourage them in the needed direction