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I'm trying out Live on an old Athlon system with a GeForce 3, and when I boot the disc, I arrive at an empty Fluxbox desktop. XBMC doesn't appear to be in any of the app menus, so I'm guessing I'm seeing something that was supposed to be bypassed?
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Aha, looks like I may have figured it out myself. I launched bash and tried to launch XBMC from there, and got the error that the Nvidia OpenGL drivers require an SSE-equipped CPU, which my ancient Athlon apparently must not be.
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I am having the exact same problem and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it.
I'm booting with the LiveCD and it goes directly to a Fluxbox desktop.
I'm running an ASUS P5N-EM HDMI nvidia nforce 7100.
How can I get XBMC to run from the Fluxbox desktop? Better yet, how can I get it start automatically.
Where do I look for debug information? The LiveCD seems to hide directories, so I'm having trouble finding logs and executables.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Hmm, well the processor is a C2D 8400 which I'm pretty sure supports SSE, and the graphics chip is a 7100 series. Its an on-board chip, but its definitely newer than the 6 series.
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I was replying to doxology original posts, I do not think you have the same problem.
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My problem seemed to resolve itself. Originally I had 2 USB sticks connected, one with XBMC and one with some media files. I unplugged the the media stick and everything booted up fine.
I have no idea why, but I'm glad its working now.
