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When I installed 8.04 server I used the video driver straight from nvidia instead of using envy to install drivers.. the nvidia installer would not compile the driver with the server kernel so I had to install the generic kernel.. the generic kernel plays a little nicer with things...
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Would it be possible to have a version of Linux which has XBMC as the dashboard/start-screen (whatever you want to call it)? It would need some extra functionality but I reckon it would make a really good OS.
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People are already stripping Ubuntu and making XBMC auto start without a real window manager running in the background. Try searching the user forums. Other than that the team has already said it would like to one day release as its own distribution, but this is not on any timeline as we would much rather fix all of the current problems it has rather than introduce new ones.
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Thanks, Harry.
I assume the irexec stuff in the shell script is for kill/restart -- which I haven't setup yet -- so I took that part out.
Why does the script use "xinit" and not "startx"? I understand that startx is a frontend for xinit, though I do not know what that means.
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These scripts worked great -- thanks.
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No problem. Glad they worked.
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Is there any way to adapt these scripts so that they can start X and xbmc as a non-root user?
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I forgot I also had to run:
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to stop gdm starting by default
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topfs2
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Just wanted to say to those that arenr awar that you can run xbmc --standalone which will add different defaults, meaning.
xbmc will statt in fullsxreen by default.
xbmc will automount removable drives
xbmc will shutdown the computer by default instead of just closing
xbmc will be able to setup the network (currently needs root priv.)
Team-xbmc will continue to add better defaults with this command so you can easier enjoy that embedded xbox fealing.
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