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

The GUIDE HAS BEEN REMOVED!

Some explanation:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=333...tcount=601

New official guide can be found here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_insta...Step_Guide

Old removed unofficial guide has been archived here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_insta...Step_Guide

great work, thank you i will test it soon

Very nice I will try this later tonight, I was going to go for the server install, but this looks much smaller than the server one.

How long does it take to boot into xbmc?

Thanks for this great guide !

The only problem now with Intrepid is still that it's using only one core of a dual (or multi) core processor. This way it has a very degraded performance with 720p or 1080p videos.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=43075

It would be great to solve this problem. Than Intrepid could be the best soulution.

alanwww1 Wrote:Thanks for this great guide !

The only problem now with Intrepid is still that it's using only one core of a dual (or multi) core processor. This way it has a very degraded performance with 720p or 1080p videos.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=43075

It would be great to solve this problem. Than Intrepid could be the best soulution.

Yes, I am aware about that, this is a big pain at this moment.
I will include aron's patch as a workaround later into the guide.

olympia Wrote:How to avoid the gray dithered background of X, which pops up for a second before XBMC starts? We would need to change this to black, but how?

XBMCLive docet...

l.capriotti Wrote:

Code:

startx -- -br

Thank you very much Luigi, you're my man

l.capriotti Wrote:XBMCLive docet...

I am not sure what do you mean by that...

Thanks again!

Awesome XBMC is up and running!
But i have some minor problems:

When i boot up there is a blue window: "There seems to be another X running on this display to you want GDM to run on another display or do you want to try again"

NOTE: This is not the original text it's just a crappy translation from Swedish, but you get the point.

Then XBMC runs in tty 2(if i remember correctly) and Gnome runs in tty 7.

XBMC works like a charm but i do have one problem:
Playing DTS SACD .wav files the only thing i hear is noise. I tried Movies with DTS they work without any problems.

Thanks for all the work you put down making this guide, it's guys like you who makes this community so great!

Great work .. it took some time to finish setup, but amazingly one of the few guides that went through exactly like they were written. Very nice work

I do though have a problem with the sound.. im not getting any I have a creative soundblaster installed... i will do some research on this issue (im new to linux).

btw, im using one of my rather old pc's for this which has an ati rv280 radeon 9200, so i skipped the nvidia part of the guide and did the follwoing:

# sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dr

which i will have to do with for now until i get my new htpc next month

thanks and great job .. and btw the system on my P4 2.6GHz w/ 512MB RAM boots into xbmc in approx. 20 seconds )

edit 1: movies info are not working (was just trying to get info from imdb but its not getting any data back) ?!

edit 2: got sound back by reinstalling alsa:
#wget http://217.20.138.65/AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.15-Ben.sh
#chmod 777 AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.15-Ben.sh
#sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.15-Ben.sh -di
#sudo nano /etc/group
[actually i found xbmc still added to user from first install]
#sudo reboot

and that's it, i skipped the remaining part concerning alsa since im not using any HD out or anything.

First thing I'd check is to make sure your channels aren't muted.

From a terminal:
Type in alsamixer
turn up the channels you need and unmute them by pressing the m key. Once you're done, press escape, and type in
to save the settings.

Edit: didn't see your edits =)