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

spozen Wrote:I have the P5N7A-VM, using the integrated VGA hooked up to my TV. The window appears when ubuntu launches X first i see XBMC start then this window comes up ruining everything when i answer yes to this blue window i get thrown out of tty7 and into Gnome/ubuntu tty9.

Confusing?

Very confusing as there is no gnome installed at all....
Did ou used my xorg.conf or your own?

spozen Wrote:Edit:
About the new Alsa, does this solve my DTS music problem or was this ment to dave?

No, it's a general announcement. It's for everybody
Regerding DTS audio. It's not a soundcard, but seems to be a codec issue, or....

I didn't install your mini iso.... so that might be the problem.. Running the standard Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid system.

Edit: So if i already installed Alsa xxxx xx 18 and download the new alsa will this fuck everything up?

I think i will make a dedicated thread about the DTS music problem.

Thanks!

olympia Wrote:Yes, flashing cursor for 2 seconds, than XBMC come back immedietely. There is no text lines for sure. However I don't have any addon card, even not hdd and any DVD drive. I installed XBMC to flash drive.

What do you have on the top of the board?

I have a 320gb Seagate, Sata DVD-Writer and that;s it. I am really wondering if there is something funky in my SVN build as I am not getting any DVD playback from the server, I get a playlist aborted error, First time for this in a long time.

I just purged the SVN completely and I going to try a ppa version.

Dave

spozen Wrote:I didn't install your mini iso.... so that might be the problem.. Running the standard Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid system.

Surely this is the problem. In this way, GDM and gnome (as a window manager) is installed. So yes, X window system starts twice. One for gnome and one for XBMC. Do you use this computer for other purposes as well? That is the reason you didn't choose mini.iso?

spozen Wrote:Edit: So if i already installed Alsa xxxx xx 18 and download the new alsa will this fuck everything up?

I would say no, your ALSA 1.0.18a should be upgraded to 1.0.19 after you run the script. But I never test that!!!

rodercot Wrote:I have a 320gb Seagate, Sata DVD-Writer and that;s it. I am really wondering if there is something funky in my SVN build as I am not getting any DVD playback from the server, I get a playlist aborted error, First time for this in a long time.

I will add a DVD drive to try. I strongly beleive that there is something weird with ODDs with this board.

rodercot Wrote:I just purged the SVN completely and I going to try a ppa version.

PPA version don't include the auto adjust refresh rate, yet. If you don't need that, you can give it a try. Or compile from older SVN version which you surely know working...

This guide looks like exactly what I have been looking for. I have an Intel DG45FC mini ITX board so I can't use the current XBMC Live built on 8.04.

Your guide includes the download of nVidia drivers and I am wondering if I'll need to find Intel drivers for my board or if they will be installed automatically from the Mini CD. Ubuntu 8.10 supports my motherboard from a full install without needing to download additional drivers but, being the linux newbie that I am, I'm not sure that will happen automatically using the mini cd.

Anyone know?

Thanks again for a well documented guide... I'm hoping it'll get my HTPC going

rodercot Wrote:Olympia,

Have you tried to build a MythTV backend on this setup yet.

I guess it would just be to dwnld myth and setup the backend and then create the video source in XBMC with local host 127.0.0.1 or the like.

I have not done it this way so any ideas would be great.

is there a sudo apt-get install for myth or do we have to dwnld and build from source.

Thanks,

Dave

For just the backend:
For client and server:
This is for version 0.21+fixes.

I'm considering building 0.22 SVN and launching the frontend from XBMC for playing live tv / recordings so I can take advantage of VDPAU. The mythtv wiki page showing how to build from source is here --> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ubuntu-8.10_Source_Install. Be sure to add "--enable-vdpau --enable-opengl-vsync" to "./configure" in the mythtv directory if you plan to use it.

mythmaster Wrote:For just the backend:

Code:

sudo apt-get install mythtv-backend

For client and server:

Code:

sudo apt-get install mythtv

This is for version 0.21+fixes.

I'm considering building 0.22 SVN and launching the frontend from XBMC for playing live tv / recordings so I can take advantage of VDPAU. The mythtv wiki page showing how to build from source is here --> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ubuntu-8.10_Source_Install. Be sure to add "--enable-vdpau --enable-opengl-vsync" to "./configure" in the mythtv directory if you plan to use it.

Does it matter which version we build for using XBMC as the frontend.

Dave

Thanks for another great guide! You are really helping a lot of people with your excellent guides.
No wait! #¤%&/&% you i mean! Now I have to reinstall my perfectly good setup just to gain another feature I dont need ;-)
Best regards
Oscar

When I use the mini CD to install Linux to a usb flash drive, it won't boot afterwards... I have used this flash drive to boot Ubuntu Live and XBMC Live so I know it isn't a problem with the stick. I'm wondering if I need to setup the partitions in a special way during install...