[LINUX] HOW-TO install XBMC for Linux on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and 8.10 (Intrepid)

olympia Wrote:I am not sure what do you mean by that...

that is the way XBMC is started in XBMCLive, you can find the init.d script in the SVN.

You may want to take a look there since you may find additional inspiration...

Cheers
Luigi

l.capriotti Wrote:that is the way XBMC is started in XBMCLive, you can find the init.d script in the SVN.

You may want to take a look there since you may find additional inspiration...

Cheers
Luigi

Ahhh, OK.
I found it. Thanks!

Bence

olympia Wrote:Ahhh, OK.
I found it. Thanks!

Bence

Bence,

You can actually get it from the tools sections of your svn checkout.

/XBMC/Tools/XBMCLive I think is the path.

Dave

[quote=l.capriotti]
Im sorry, but i dont understand this part? where is that edited? (and kindly could u give me full path - i really dont know anything about the dir structure in linux - trying my best to learn as fast as i can) I know this should hide the 'x' that shows up for like 2 seconds when xbmc boots up (which would be nice to remove if possible) .. did i understand it right?

Sound is back, but i discovered that i only have center and rear L&R working. both front speakers are not working. I have creative SB 5.1 Live which is using SigmaTel STAC9708,11 chip (according to the alsamixer). What can I do for this?

Another thing, is there a way to hide all the echoed stuff that shows during booting up?

Usplash Theme installation.

there are a few ways to do this:

This is how I did it


Now download the xbmc-theme from here or you can use the themes from dudkes blog as well.

xbmc them is here : http://sourceforge.net/project/downloadi...p&31322968

dudkes blog is here: http://du-duke.blogspot.com/

Now once you have dwnlded the above to your pc extract it and copy the folder over to your xbmc machine.

Now we will compile it and make the .so file

do this:


Then change into your theme directory:


This will make an file called XBMC-theme.so
Then copy and rename the XBMC-theme.so file to /usr/lib/usplash.


Now you can reboot and check out your new splash.

This is for the XBMC-theme-so method, if you want to use one of dudukes splashes then the steps are the same to make the .so file you, dudukes splashes create a different named .so file. so when you copy it over to replace the file in /usr/lib you need to make sure the name is the same as listed in the directory for the splash file you downloaded.

IE spinner-blue file = xbmc-splash.so
usplash-xbmc-theme = XBMC-theme.so

Once this is done, if you are using dudukes splashes then you need to force the res.

sudo vim /etc/usplash.conf

press i to insert text then type

xres=xxxx
yres=xxxx

match the xxxx with the supported res for the splash you are running these are listed on the blog link above.

now hit esc to get out of edit mode then :wq to save the file

now update intramfs to make the changes


sudo reboot to enjoy your new splash.

rgds,

Dave

megacrypto Wrote:[quote=l.capriotti]

Code:

startx -- -br

Im sorry, but i dont understand this part? where is that edited? (and kindly could u give me full path - i really dont know anything about the dir structure in linux - trying my best to learn as fast as i can) I know this should hide the 'x' that shows up for like 2 seconds when xbmc boots up (which would be nice to remove if possible) .. did i understand it right?

Sound is back, but i discovered that i only have center and rear L&R working. both front speakers are not working. I have creative SB 5.1 Live which is using SigmaTel STAC9708,11 chip (according to the alsamixer). What can I do for this?

Another thing, is there a way to hide all the echoed stuff that shows during booting up?

The X does not get removed that is Xserver loading what this change does is give you black screen behind the X instead of the normal Grey dithered X window that you will get waiting for xbmc to start.

Dave

ok thanks, i already have a black screen (or it looks black to me)

what about the IMDB for content info? is there something missing there or am i doing something wrong?

megacrypto Wrote:ok thanks, i already have a black screen (or it looks black to me)

what about the IMDB for content info? is there something missing there or am i doing something wrong?

IMDB scraping was removed from XBMC in the SVN about a week ago. IMDB doesn't give permission to scrape their site and XBMC is now honoring that.

It's not good news, but I feel they made the right decision.

xanadu1979 Wrote:IMDB scraping was removed from XBMC in the SVN about a week ago. IMDB doesn't give permission to scrape their site and XBMC is now honoring that.

It's not good news, but I feel they made the right decision.

thats very very very bad news

megacrypto Wrote:thats very very very bad news

if you screen is black then you already had --br in the .bash profile as Olympia appended the changes to the file in the guide.

Dave