Linux HOW-TO make XBMC for Linux auto start on Ubuntu

This is excellent work. Thanks!

I am running ubuntu hardy 8.04.1

I would like to be able to select at grub to either autostart and run xbmc as an appliance (as detailed here) or to use ubuntu and run gdm (as normal).

Is this possible?....currently doing my own research, but any help would be appreciated.

One way, is to have XBMC Live on a USB thumbdrive and run a reconfigure of grub so it detects XBMC Live then it should be selectable.
Otherwise you would have to do it yourself via another ubuntu install on same HDD or another.

Cheers,
Tobias

Thank you guys for these excellent guides.
Anyone has a solution to powedown or suspend the system when quit from xbmc standalone?

twood Wrote:Thank you guys for these excellent guides.
Anyone has a solution to powedown or suspend the system when quit from xbmc standalone?

Just choose which action you want to trigger in Settings -> System
XBMC Live (xbmc --standalone) will default to Shutdown of system.

Usually Suspend is rather hard to get going if you have a Nvidia or ATI due to bad drivers. Intel works rather good for me.

Cheers,
Tobias

Hi there

Topfs2 Wrote:Just choose which action you want to trigger in Settings -> System
XBMC Live (xbmc --standalone) will default to Shutdown of system.

Usually Suspend is rather hard to get going if you have a Nvidia or ATI due to bad drivers. Intel works rather good for me.

Cheers,
Tobias

Guess twood is not using XBMC Live.
He ran into the same problem i mentioned above.

Hopefully someone has a solution for that, as it is nearly the last annoying thing on my HTPC

THX
Chaos

Chaos_666 Wrote:Hi there


Guess twood is not using XBMC Live.
He ran into the same problem i mentioned above.

Hopefully someone has a solution for that, as it is nearly the last annoying thing on my HTPC

THX
Chaos

Yes I'm not running Live, I have ubuntu 8.04 installed and I followed the guide to make it start directly to XBMC standalone.
Unfortunatelly when choosing the option to shutdown, the system will not do anything no matter what my settings are (shutdown/suspend). If i choose to restart XBMC it will just drop to the console.
There is a away to perform a normal restart as already decribed here in this thread, but the thing is that I would love to be able to shutdown XBMC running in standalone mode.

twood Wrote:Yes I'm not running Live, I have ubuntu 8.04 installed and I followed the guide to make it start directly to XBMC standalone.
Unfortunatelly when choosing the option to shutdown, the system will not do anything no matter what my settings are (shutdown/suspend). If i choose to restart XBMC it will just drop to the console.
There is a away to perform a normal restart as already decribed here in this thread, but the thing is that I would love to be able to shutdown XBMC running in standalone mode.

Sounds like dbus is failing for you. Could you provide a debug log.
If you start with xbmc --standalone (as the guide suggest?)
Then it should shutdown, do you have anything printed to console?

Cheers,
Tobias.

Hi there,

I am a very new linux user but have been using OS X for some time so have a brief insight to using terminal etc.

MrCerulean instructions are fantastic and work like a treat however I am trying to use a Belkin pci wireless card to network this machine and the only way I seem to be able to get this running is by using the ndiswrapper to utilize the windows drivers under gnome.

Is anybody aware of a way to use the standalone method of booting into XBMC without gnome running and still be able to use wireless networking?

Any help is much appreciated!

Cheers
Olly

Topfs2 Wrote:Sounds like dbus is failing for you. Could you provide a debug log.
If you start with xbmc --standalone (as the guide suggest?)
Then it should shutdown, do you have anything printed to console?

Cheers,
Tobias.

Well here is my debug log.
http://pastebin.com/mc61aae3
There is indeed an error message coming from dbus.
00:08:34 T:3053426560 M:1750196224 ERROR: DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied - A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement" member "Suspend" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

My xbmc version is atlantis beta 2 installed from PPA.
Any ideas? Thank you

Hi there,
same problem here:

THX 4 your help
Chaos