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Hi there,
I know its my first post but before someone tells me off, I've checked the last ten pages & searched the forum but I can't find any help with the following problem.
I changed over to Auriga yesterday in order to use the new Multiplex stuff but in doing so I lost my backdrops from the menu. I checked here & saw that I needed the latest SVN build of XBMC, so I installed subversion & downloaded / installed the latest XBMC.
However I still have exactly the same problem as before, still no backdrops. Now either I've done something daft ( probably ) or I still have the wrong version of something. Is there any way to check that the XBMC I am using is the very latest, or can anyone suggest something else?
I'm using Ubuntu & an Acer Revo if that helps & I've converted all the images from jpgs to bmps.
Cheers.
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2009-06-21, 21:33
(This post was last modified: 2009-06-21, 21:44 by ph0rce.)
Just tried that, it makes no difference I'm afraid. The only time the any of the images show up is when I've selected the Movies option & the menu has changed. The background for the { .. } option is from the configured directory.
As I asked earlier, is there any way to check that the version of XBMC that I am running is the latest one? A new menu option, settings line, etc?
Any ideas?
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Fixed - I managed to find out which version I was running by checking out the xbmc.log file & discovered that while I'd installed the latest SVN build, the startup scripts were still referencing the old version.
I changed the /usr/bin/runXBMC.sh file to point to the new one & that fixed my problems.
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2009-06-22, 16:23
Hi, i'm very new here and i don't speak very nice English. Ph0rce if you can be more specific please because i have the same problem and i don't know what to do. tks very much for anticipated.
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Just to make sure you have the same problem as me:
I first installed the latest released build for XBMC from the official repository ( 9.04.1 ) using a package manager, followed by the xbmc-live package ( which boots your system straight into XBMC ).
Then I downloaded, compiled & installed the SVN version of XBMC.
The problem here is that the official package installs XBMC to '/usr/share/xbmc/' but the SVN version installs to '/usr/local/share/xbmc' so you are left with two versions of XBMC on your system & the xbmc-live scripts are still pointing at the old version.
You need to edit the runXBMC.sh file ( located in /usr/bin/ ) & change the references from '/usr/share/xbmc/....' to /usr/local/share/xbmc/....'.
Once you've done this, just reboot your system & that should do it.
The editing will need to be done with 'sudo' if you are not already logged in as the root user.
Hope that helps.
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Help i can't fix my problem, because i didn't install SVN version. When i put a backdrop in the menu of AEON STARK it works, but when i put the backdrops in the menu of the Auriga it doesn't work, i don't know what happend. But when i open a menu item, (in Auriga) inside of that menu item the backdrops works. Please help.
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You need to install the SVN version, otherwise backdrops don't work in Auriga.
