[LINUX] HOW-TO achieve XBMC nirvana with an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 and Ubuntu

pyite · 2012-06-01 03:13

So I just bought one of these a few days ago, and am struggling a bit to eliminate the tearing... specifically at the top of the screen.

Below is my xorg. I am running Eden.

Code:

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier     "Monitor0"

    HorizSync      31 - 82

    VertRefresh    57 - 63

    Option         "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE"

#    Modeline       "1920x1080" 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125

EndSection

Section "Device"

        Identifier "nvidia"

        Driver  "nvidia"

        Option  "NoLogo"              "true"

        Option  "DynamicTwinView"     "false"

        # Option  "NoFlip"              "false"

        Option  "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"

        Option  "ModeValidation"      "NoVesaModes, NoXServerModes"

        Option  "UseDisplayDevice"    "DFP-1"

        Option  "ModeDebug"           "true"

        Option  "HWCursor"            "false"

        Option  "ModeValidation"      "NoEdidModes"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

        Identifier      "screen"

        Device          "nvidia"

        Monitor         "Monitor0"

        DefaultDepth    24

        Option  "NoLogo" "True"

        Option "TripleBuffer" "false"

        SubSection      "Display"

                Modes "1920x1080_60"

        EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

        Option  "Composite"           "Disable"

EndSection

I am sort of at a loss as to what I can do additionally to solve this problem. The videos I am using to test are 720p.

xbmcliveuser · 2012-06-01 08:07

(2012-06-01 03:13)pyite Wrote: So I just bought one of these a few days ago, and am struggling a bit to eliminate the tearing... specifically at the top of the screen.

Don't know how you found this very old thread, but anyway, see:

Howto achieve judder free perfectly synced playback at 23.97/59.94 Hz

Also I suggest you see:

xbmc cannot set resolution/refresh properly with nvidia cards in 12.04

and note the comments underneath that report. To use the Nathan Rennie-Waldock PPA instead of the default Ubuntu repositories, do this:

1. Remove the xbmc and xbmc-bin packages using Synaptic or your favorite package manager (you can install Synaptic using apt-get install synaptic if you don't already have a package manager installed).
2. From a terminal prompt do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable
sudo apt-get update
3. Go back into Synaptic or your package manager of choice and (re)install xbmc and xbmc-bin.

Note your existing XBMC settings should not be affected as long as you don't delete the .xbmc directory in your user directory (so, don't do that unless you want to start over completely from scratch).

For more information on problems with the version of XBMC offered in Ubuntu's repository see Linux HTML Entities being used such as &

pyite · 2012-06-01 14:21

I searched... alot haha

Thanks for your suggestions, I will check them out.

pyite Junior Member Posts: 49 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-06-01 14:21 Post: #143 I searched... alot haha Thanks for your suggestions, I will check them out.
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