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And btw. can't you try OpenELEC 5.0.8 from USB stick?
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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Well, just tried ubuntu 15.04 x64 server edition and got all messed up screen again.
Now I'll try x86 to see if that works.
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x86 won't change a thing.
Try OpenELEC from an usb stick.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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I had some problems getting the USB to boot, but now it did.
There was no live boot option so I had to overwrite the already existing linux mint installation and grub menu (that'll give me some trouble later this day when I want to revert back to windows + mediaportal)
Like I said, I got the USB booting and installed OpenElec 5.0.8-EFI.
After that I rebooted and hoped for the best.
I cheered when the OpenElec logo showed up but got dissapointed to see all the messed up screen again.
One thing however went better than all previous linux attempts, I got my mouse cursor to work, but that's it.
I also tried to put my Asus F1A75-m bios to default values but it did not made any difference.
For the record, my bios forces the APU graphics on HDM with 1GB ram.
Any other ideas or do I have to give up?
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I just realized that I had a passive low profile HD5450 card in my desktop system upstairs. I switched with another and took the card downstairs to my HTPC.
I put it in and booted.
Voila, screen without problems.
I think I have to go this route because forcing to do everything with the a4-3400 never gave good results and this actually works out of the box.
Thanks for all your effort and help.
I'm going to experiment a bit with kodi now.