[wookietv]

so i did the upgrade from 9.04 and it gets to a screen that says:

Code:

*Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [OK]
*Checking battery state...  [OK]
/dev/sda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 9xfe (254)  [OK]

and then it just keeps refreshing this screen every 10-15 seconds or so...

what do i do now? it's obviously not working, do i downgrade back, if so, how? do i try to do the upgrade again?

thanks for any assistance.

[MattDX]

When I do an update via apt-get - I simply end up with beta 1.

Any ideas - I don't want to have to do a reinstall!

[greed]

I've got exactly the same board, rev 3 - I waited eons for it! I'm getting a slight jerkiness too on some 1080p's - maybe I aught to upgrade from scratch too. Only just got it all how I like it as well!

OK, running from the LiveCD for testing would be too hard, I'd actually have to plug a USB cable in, the horrors.... So I brought my machine up via diskless NFS boot instead. (Until I figure why unetbootin is a C++ program instead of a shell script, I'm not running it. Anyway, I already have a PXE infrastructure for testing.)

1920x800 (a 1080p Blu-Ray after cropping) is playing beautifully from the 9.11 Live media. So you don't just want the new XBMC, you really want the new Ubuntu package choices under the covers, too.

At the very least, you want the new nVidia drivers. 180 is the latest I could get to install with apt and friends after upgrading 9.04.1. 190 is what's on the LiveCD.

[smoose]

How do I start XBMC from a the command line---

Edit- the subject should say I upgraded NOW it boots to command line

(T: XBMCLive)xbmc@XBMCLive:~$

[Grippen]

Ok managed to find a solution on how to install 9.11

I was running 9.04.1 on a ION Revo 3600. The normal update -> upgrade was not working. Even the solution for aptitude update -> aptitude upgrade was bringing problems so here is the sequence of commands which put it to work.

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot

sudo apt-get install xbmc
sudo apt-get -f install

Finally follow the instructions on how to update the nvidia drivers
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=442452

PS: the sudo apt-get -f install might not be necessary but I run all of these and since I'm no unix expert not sure if that was really necessary

[vandal]

Ok managed to find a solution on how to install 9.11

I was running 9.04.1 on a ION Revo 3600. The normal update -> upgrade was not working. Even the solution for aptitude update -> aptitude upgrade was bringing problems so here is the sequence of commands which put it to work.

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot

sudo apt-get install xbmc
sudo apt-get -f install

Finally follow the instructions on how to update the nvidia drivers
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=442452

PS: the sudo apt-get -f install might not be necessary but I run all of these and since I'm no unix expert not sure if that was really necessary

I had the exact same problem as WOOKIETV on my Revo 1600. I did the steps above and it fixed it! I hope this helps someone.

[darknessgp]

I had the exact same problem as WOOKIETV on my Revo 1600. I did the steps above and it fixed it! I hope this helps someone.

I actually just registered to reply to this. I recently bought a Revo 1600 and installed XBMC live on it... and have had a pain trying to update it to the latest version. I must say that those instructions worked perfectly. Thank you!

[spencers]

I actually just registered to reply to this. I recently bought a Revo 1600 and installed XBMC live on it... and have had a pain trying to update it to the latest version. I must say that those instructions worked perfectly. Thank you!

Good to hear! Every time I tried upgrading from 9.04 to 9.11 in the past week or two, I got that same error on my Revo 1600. I will definitely be trying this soon.

[spencers]

Just providing an update: Grippen's post was SUCCESSFUL!

On my Revo 1600, I had 9.04 live installed. Following his post, I now have 9.11 live with the 190 nvidia drivers installed. Thanks!

[mdfast1]

I had to send my Revo 1600 back to Acer for repair. They ended up replacing the Mainboard and it now has what appears to be a new Bios on it (P01-A3). They left everything intact on the hard drive, but now when I boot my XBMC live 9.04 the network card is not detected. I have installed a USB Live version of 9.11 onto the USB stick and the network card shows up in that version of XBMC.

How can I update to XBMC 9.11 from 9.04 without having to format the drive and loose the music/pictures/videos on it? I don't care if I loose my xbmc 9.04 settings though. If I install via the USB live 9.11 copy over the existing 9.04 will there be problems and will it just format the entire drive to install it?

Since the network card isn't being detected I cant SSH or use apt-get update in order to update. What are my options here?

[Grippen]

Just go to the console CTRL+ALT+F2 and do the same commands described on the previous page.

[mdfast1]

Going to the Console using that method still does't work. I think the network is still not accessible. It fails on every attempt at downloading from a site using apt-get update or upgrade. Is there a good way to re initialize the ethernet card in linux?

[nick999]

Thanks Grippen, your steps seemed to work fine on my Revo - but the Nvidia drivers didn't, so XBMC no longer boots (says there is no OpenGL driver)

Can anyone help me?

I've added
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

to my sources.list successfully, and added the relevant key. This seemed to work - when I run the command again, it says.

I then run sudo apt-get update, and get a long list of successful updates. At the end though, it says:

Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/pp...ackages.gz 404 Not Found

Can anyone suggest where the problem might lie?

[jhabers]

Thanks Grippen, your steps seemed to work fine on my Revo - but the Nvidia drivers didn't, so XBMC no longer boots (says there is no OpenGL driver)

Can anyone help me?

I've added
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

to my sources.list successfully, and added the relevant key. This seemed to work - when I run the command again, it says.

I then run sudo apt-get update, and get a long list of successful updates. At the end though, it says:

Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/pp...ackages.gz 404 Not Found

Can anyone suggest where the problem might lie?

run sudo nvidia-installer --update

[ghislain]

I ended up with the same problem (OpenGL error).
Upgrading did not solve the problem, I had to remove the Nvidia driver (do a search in the forum) and then reinstalled it from scratch.
That solved it