[kettal]

I've been unable to get XBMC Live to work on my old laptop.

XBMC Windows works well on this laptop. Ubuntu Desktop edition works too, but every time I boot XBMC-LIVE it crashes and black screens.

I created an xorg.conf file, (via command-line mode) and tinkered with that to no success. I'm pretty sure the solution will be by modifying that file, but I don't know what options I have to set?

Laptop is old Centrino Pentium-M ; Graphics chip is Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller.

My desired resolution is 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[AuXBoX]

Have you just tried deleting the guisettings file and rebooting

[kettal]

If it's from the unmodified LIVE CD what good would that do? Won't it just re-generate the exact same guisettings?

[AuXBoX]

It seems like one of the settings within that is making it go black.
Maybe it is the resolution xbmc chooses by default