2010-03-22, 20:18
I have been running XBMClive for a while OK, recently tried to get it to talk to my Sony reciever at 1080P instead for 1080I. gave up after a few hours, too hard!
Looking at other posts suggestion was to upgrade the nvidia drivers. The latest drivers installed fine and XBMC boots fine. However using VDPAU as the render method (was set to this under the previous Nvida driver) results in blank or garbled screeen although HDMI Audio (DTS/DD) etc. play perfect against the HD movies in my lan library. Just no video. grabled screen or blank screen randomly. Running any render method other than VDPAU works fine but on 1080P movies impossibel to watch because of how slow they go without the hardware rendering of the ION.
Could not downgrade nvidia driver to the one from ZOTAC as it fails to compile the kernel module when told to do so from the installer and reverts to the currently installed driver. Sytem then restarts fine.
Currently installed driver is Linux-x86/195.36.15/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.15-pkg1.run direclty from the nvidia site.
This installed perfectly compiled its own kernel module etc. and reading the release notes says it has fixed many VDPAU issues...clearly not for XBMC.
Can anyone advise as to how I might rescue my XBMC installation, or is it a matter of installing from scratch. If so how do I preserve my library information etc. I run XBMC live from a 4GB USB stick and do not use the internal HDD on theZOTAC at all. If I can get this working reliably I will probably remove HDD and re-use elsewhere.
If I use XBMC from windows 7 installed on the HDD, I get 1080P but of couse I have to put up with WINDOZE!!! Really want to use linux if poss, all otehr machines on my lan are Ubuntu.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. Spent many hours scouring forums and ended up here.
Thank you in advance to anyone helping.
Cheers
Spart
Looking at other posts suggestion was to upgrade the nvidia drivers. The latest drivers installed fine and XBMC boots fine. However using VDPAU as the render method (was set to this under the previous Nvida driver) results in blank or garbled screeen although HDMI Audio (DTS/DD) etc. play perfect against the HD movies in my lan library. Just no video. grabled screen or blank screen randomly. Running any render method other than VDPAU works fine but on 1080P movies impossibel to watch because of how slow they go without the hardware rendering of the ION.
Could not downgrade nvidia driver to the one from ZOTAC as it fails to compile the kernel module when told to do so from the installer and reverts to the currently installed driver. Sytem then restarts fine.
Currently installed driver is Linux-x86/195.36.15/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.15-pkg1.run direclty from the nvidia site.
This installed perfectly compiled its own kernel module etc. and reading the release notes says it has fixed many VDPAU issues...clearly not for XBMC.
Can anyone advise as to how I might rescue my XBMC installation, or is it a matter of installing from scratch. If so how do I preserve my library information etc. I run XBMC live from a 4GB USB stick and do not use the internal HDD on theZOTAC at all. If I can get this working reliably I will probably remove HDD and re-use elsewhere.
If I use XBMC from windows 7 installed on the HDD, I get 1080P but of couse I have to put up with WINDOZE!!! Really want to use linux if poss, all otehr machines on my lan are Ubuntu.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. Spent many hours scouring forums and ended up here.
Thank you in advance to anyone helping.
Cheers
Spart