[Springy]

It's the second time now the installation fails on my HTPC. X can't be started. I think it has something to do with my video driver. I installed it like they explain it in the XBMCbuntu wiki. I choosed this because I have a different Nvidia Chipset than you're using in your tutorial.

Can I install nvidia-glx-190 for my nVidia GeForce 9300 chipset (MSI P7NGM-Digital)?

if you post the output for this command on here so I can take a look:

Code:

startx

[M@rtijn]

That should be no problem at all.

I noticed. I just re-installed everything and used nvidia-glx-190. Everything works ok now. Now I'm trying on get my remote to work and to set the output frequency to 24Hz (the manual of my TV claims he can accept 1080p@24Hz)

One thing about the installation. I needed to use the following repositories for "sudo apt-get install usplash libusplash-dev usplash-theme-xbmc-*":

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

The SVN ones couldn't find usplash-theme-xbmc-

[mulder77de]

Hi, I am trying to test this setup.
I am remote right now but the system seems to start up ok and xbmc.bin is running.

When I try to mount my NFS export, I will get this one:

mount.nfs: mount system call failed

nfs-common is installed.

Anybody able to mount manually any NFS exports (I know that there are issues that NFS exports won't get mounted through fstab automatically)?

Update: There was a problem on my server, so no problems with the client.

mulder77de

[M@rtijn]

Everything works now, including 1080p@24Hz. But after I watched a 720p movie, XBMC craches at the end of the movie. This happened with 2 different files. Maybe it has to do with the Alpha version.

[Springy]

Yeah, I was having that problem, was fine when I updated to Alpha 2 just run:

Code:

sudo apt-get upgrade

And this will update to alpha 2.

[davidw]

Thank you for this How-To!

With this and the XBMCbuntu-Howto (http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu) I was able to install Ubuntu Karmic with XBMC. I prefer the XBMC-Live boot from the XBMCbuntu-Howto but you have to change a bit because of Grub2 in Karmic. I will describe in short what I've done:

1) Install Karmic Server with OpenSSH
2) Upgrade the System to the newest Version and install your Graphic Card Driver
3) Install the following packages

Code:

sudo aptitude install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils xbmc xinit x11-xserver-utils fluxbox xterm

4) Try if XBMC starts

Code:

#Start a Windowmanager
startx
#In this windowmanager start a terminal and start xbmc.
#If it works then go ahead.

5) Install XBMC-Live and the Policykit

Code:

sudo aptitude install xbmc-live pm-utils policykit

6) Check the Alsa Preferences and Policykit Preferences (as described in the other How-Tos
7) Configure the Grub2

Code:

#Set the XBMC Options in the Grub Config
sudo vi /etc/default/grub
# Change this line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash xbmc=autostart,noredir"
# Safe the File and test the configuration
sudo grub-mkconfig
# Update Grub2 with the new config
sudo update-grub

Now reboot and it should login into XBMC.
I'm not sure if this GRUB2 Options are 100% correct but for me it worked only with this settings!

I will write this also into the XBMCbuntu Thread.

[M@rtijn]

Running Alpha2 now. Some 1080p mkv movies crashes XBMC after a few minutes. Some just crash XBMC when they start. Alpha2 doesn't seem to be very stable.

[M@rtijn]

When not using VPDAU everythings works fine. Should I report this error?

[pfriederichs]

I had to build a 2nd system using this guide yesterday and for whatever reason it appears that the PPA's being installed are 9.1 Alpha 1? Is there any way to tell in XBMC which version is running or via. command line?

sudo apt-get upgrade tells me everything is up to date but like I said when I did the initial install I saw several lines scroll by that referenced Alpha 1.

Also I noticed a problem in your guide that you may want to change -- some of the initial steps are in the wrong order.

IE: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-190 will not install without 1st doing.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 64234534 40618B66 CEC06767 318C7509

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-190

The splash screen portion of your guide is also not currently working without adding the PPA's from page 4 of this thread (however what I don't know is if this will cause any problems with updating XBMC from SVN in the future -- I assume not?)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

FYI I appreciate this guide its been years since i've used Linux and this helped with a lot to get things running fast -- appreciate the work.

[davidw]

I had a good one yesterday:
I updated from alpha1 to alpha2 and then my /etc/sudoers file hat double XBMC entries. Problem now was that you're not able to use a sudo command again.

Is this a bug?!?!

Solution: boot in the recovery mode and as root delete the second XBMX entries in the /etc/sudoers with the command "visudo".

Cheers,
David

[davidw]

I had to build a 2nd system using this guide yesterday and for whatever reason it appears that the PPA's being installed are 9.1 Alpha 1? Is there any way to tell in XBMC which version is running or via. command line?

Code:

#this will show you the package version
aptitude show xbmc

Alpha2 is not in the SVN PPA. Remove them from your /etc/apt/sources.list and use the stable karmic PPA.

Code:

#read in the new ppa and upgrade to new versions
sudo aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade

[M@rtijn]

After pfriederichs' reaction I checked my version and I found out that I was still using Alpha 1. Now I upgraded to Alpha 2. The 1080p mkv VPDAU playback is even worse in this version. I think I have to wait till a later or the stable version.

[Henry78]

How do i make it to actually shut down the computer?

Iikoo, have you solved this issue yet?

[Bagger]

Silly question. But I`d like to know
What version of XBMC does it install in your guide ? and does this version have the " sync playback to display " option in the video settings ?


Thanks

[sparapanzi]

Thanks for a great tutorial, working great for me!

One thing is kinda broken: when i select shutdown from XBMC, it just closes XBMC and returns to shell (bash). How do i make it to actually shut down the computer? Other buttons like reset works...

Same thing to me.
I have Ubuntu 9.10 and can't shutdown or reboot from xbmc.
I grant the rights to the user "media" that run xbmc:

polkit-auth --user media --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown
polkit-auth --user media --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot

etc...

The user "media" is also a sudoer that can reboot/shutdown without password from
console.

The xbmc log says:

ERROR: DBus: Error org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power.GeneralError - not authorized

If i try to send directly to d-bus from console:

media@mediacenter:~$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --type=method_call --print-reply '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Reboot'

mediacenter reboots without problem..

Someone can help me ? Thanks...