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I just recently installed XBMCbuntu to dual boot on one of my kids PC's, the idea being that when Windows 7 parental control kicked in, they could still reboot the computer into XBMC to watch TV Shows, etc.
The computer runs windows 7 fine, has 2 gigs of ram, a ATI x1900, and AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor.
System info in XBMC always has one of the cores at 95-100% and the other at 1-3%, 1927MB free of ram, and the FPS between .5-.9
Obviously with that low of a FPS, its pretty much unusable. Am I missing something? Some kind of incompatibility?
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What I did so far was just re-install XBMCbuntu from scratch with the 4650 HD in it. Do you still suggest I do the whole fglrx thing? It seems to be running fine so far.
Also, as this is primarily for the kids (oldest one 8) I was trying to make grub a little more friendly. I managed to default the selection to Windows 7 (as that's what they will be primarily using), but is there a way to make it, I dunno...look pretty? Maybe a GUI type grub? Ideally I would like It two boot, and there be two options Windows 7 and XBMC. Maybe with just there logos. One giant Windows Logo and One giant XBMC logo, and the kids can easily distinguish what is what (the youngest doesn't read well yet).
It's a minor thing tho.
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I'd advise to update the fglrx(-updates) driver and use the Xvba build of xbmc instead of the normal one. The topic I linked to is quite detailed on how to do this.
For the grub menu you might take a look at BURG.
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Hello,
I'm having the same issue on my setup... I use the boot pen as my only bootable option with the hard drive only storing videos (I previously used Geexbox)
My computer setup includes an AMD X2 3800+, ATI X1900XTX, 2GB RAM. I'm experiencing the same issue when XBMC loads the whole system drops to 1FPS and if you open the system info you can see the CPU usuage darting between the 2 cores at 99%
I understand there is an issue with the GPU drivers but I'm a total Linux beginner so I don't know how to get it into recovery mode or anything. As I run the system from a boot pen how do I get it into recovery mode?
Is there a beginners guide to XBMCubuntu graphics card driver update? is it possible to add the drivers to the USB pen while using another windows computer?
Thanks in advanced!!!