2010-01-27, 19:11
Hello,
First, my system is an Asus eeeBox b202, which is the Intel 945gse, 2GB RAM, Broadcom Crystal HD card (confirmed working).
I've been following atbrandt's and Davila's posts on how he compiled and installed the custom build of XBMC Linux under Ubuntu with the Crystal HD drivers. I've done this myself and everything went smooth. I want to instead run a bare-minimal Ubuntu deployment and keep the system as light and simple as possible.
I tried the [Live] deployment, but can't find or build a Crystal HD deployment for Live. My attempts at recompiling under Live didn't work as it didn't pick up the Crystal HD driver. Maybe a separate post / question on why this didn't work?
So instead, I tried to do the same thing with an Ubuntu Minimal deployment, but having trouble. Here is what I've done:
When running XBMC, I am given the error message that XBMC requires hardware acceleration and OpenGL to run, please make sure you have proper video drivers, etc...
I've confirmed my machine has the latest Mesa drivers, the Intel video drivers seemed to go in without any issues. The Crystal card seemed to install fine as well. What am I missing? Is this not possible with Ubuntu Minimal?
Is the approach wrong? Is there actually a way to do this same thing with [Live] instead?
Thanks all!
First, my system is an Asus eeeBox b202, which is the Intel 945gse, 2GB RAM, Broadcom Crystal HD card (confirmed working).
I've been following atbrandt's and Davila's posts on how he compiled and installed the custom build of XBMC Linux under Ubuntu with the Crystal HD drivers. I've done this myself and everything went smooth. I want to instead run a bare-minimal Ubuntu deployment and keep the system as light and simple as possible.
I tried the [Live] deployment, but can't find or build a Crystal HD deployment for Live. My attempts at recompiling under Live didn't work as it didn't pick up the Crystal HD driver. Maybe a separate post / question on why this didn't work?
So instead, I tried to do the same thing with an Ubuntu Minimal deployment, but having trouble. Here is what I've done:
- Install Ubuntu Minimal using the official Ubuntu minimal ISO
- Since the deployment does not have the GUI, this is all done from Terminal.
- Install Intel video drivers (xserver-xorg-video-intel)
- Follow atbrandt's guide to download and compile Crystal HD drivers, set up PPA sources, download and compile XBMC, and even install XBMC
- No errors or problems with this - everything ran the same as it did under full Ubuntu
When running XBMC, I am given the error message that XBMC requires hardware acceleration and OpenGL to run, please make sure you have proper video drivers, etc...
I've confirmed my machine has the latest Mesa drivers, the Intel video drivers seemed to go in without any issues. The Crystal card seemed to install fine as well. What am I missing? Is this not possible with Ubuntu Minimal?
Is the approach wrong? Is there actually a way to do this same thing with [Live] instead?
Thanks all!