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remove your .xbmc directory and start fresh.
ahh, great.

Ok I will give that a go.
Thank you very much
Hi,

I tried updating from rc5 to rc6 like described in the second post but get the following error:
Setting up linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc6-generic (3.15.0-031500rc6.201405211835) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.15.0-031500rc6-generic_3.15.0-031500rc6.201405211835_amd64.deb

EDIT: error was simply that I never removed all the previous kernels and didnt think that this would fill the 5G partition for the OS (w/o /home), I removed the directories I could find and had enugh space afterwards to install the new kernel
That's not the error.
Hi
I have noticed that an xbmc_crashlog-20140527_002445.log file was created in my system. I have been upgrade to 3.15rc6 kernel and to RC1 Gotham
In crash log it reports Segmentation fault .Any idea why this happened?

Log files:
------------
xbmc_crashlog-20140527_002445.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7529405/

dmesg | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7529356/

$ cat ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7529363/

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7529366/

$ dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7529372/

$ DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7529373/

Last but not least while I have tried to use pastebinit to post the xbmc crash log the following error displayed and I had to do it manually. Any idea why utf-8 decoder crash and can not decode?

$cat xbmc_crashlog-20140527_002445.log | pastebinit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 345, in <module>
content = sys.stdin.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 91063: inva lid continuation byte
Hi,
yesterday i had some free time so i thought that upgrading perfectly working system would be great idea. Well...
Of course i missed the purging part mentioned in first post, so i broke it and now all videos are running at 2 fps. I did some digging, and repair is mentioned in page 183, followed that, and i have another problem. Duh

Im missing xserver-xorg-video-ati, but when i try to install it i get:

Code:
xserver-xorg-video-ati : Depends: xserver-xorg-video-glamoregl but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Im kinda linux BFU, and google is speechless this time, so please, if anyone can help me with this...

pana@knedlik:~$ dmesg | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7542072/
pana@knedlik:~$ cat /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7542089/
pana@knedlik:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7542073/
pana@knedlik:~$ DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error creating VDPAU device: 1
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7542074/
pana@knedlik:~$ dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7542076/

EDIT!!

I finally managed it by downgrading package libglamor0, and succeeding with installing xserver-xorg-video-ati. Aptitude ftw!
Hi all.

I have problem with playback Blu-ray disc. Sound plays but video is blackscreen with subtitles Smile

Here my info:
root@xbmc:~# dmesg | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7545769/
root@xbmc:~# cat ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7545771/
root@xbmc:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7545774/
root@xbmc:~# DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7545777/
root@xbmc:~# dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7545778/
The vdpauinfo output does not match your installed version. Did you compile something from source and overwrote some files?
(2014-05-29, 20:42)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]The vdpauinfo output does not match your installed version. Did you compile something from source and overwrote some files?

I was just trying to install/reinstall fglx driver with
Code:
sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
and
Code:
sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run
Yeah - totally wrong in that howto. This is about Radeon OSS and has nothing to do with the binary blob.
Before I trying to play with fglx I have a problem with blu-ray video.
www.openelec.tv <- give that version a try from usb stick.
Ok. Thanks.
Hi all!
I'm trying to enable VDPAU on my HTPC (AMD E350 CPU) under Debian Wheezy + packages from debian testing & deb-multimedia. I used deb packages only, didn't compile kernel \ xbmc \ mesa drivers for now.

linux-image-amd64 3.14.4
xserver-xorg-core 1.15.1
mesa 10.1.2
xbmc 12.3

# dmesg | pastebinit
http://pastebin.com/fA9nPmvd
# cat ./Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://pastebin.com/qfx45NHu
# cat ./xbmc.log | pastebinit
http://pastebin.com/HHyZeeMy
# DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://pastebin.com/TRYW3BSD
# dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://pastebin.com/u2P1q6Dj
# dpkg -l |grep vdpau | pastebinit
http://pastebin.com/5UEVFNV2

Code:
# uname -a
Linux MMC 3.14-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.4-1 (2014-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# NOXORGCONFEXISTED: No X.org configuration file existed when this backup was created.

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "radeon"
EndSection

# dpkg -l |grep xbmc
ii  plymouth-themes-xbmc-logo             10.0-0.5+1                         all          graphical boot animation and logger - xbmc-logo theme
ii  xbmc                                  4:12.3.1-dmo1                      all          XBMC Media Center (full metapackage).
ii  xbmc-bin                              4:12.3.1-dmo1                      amd64        XBMC Media Center (binary data package).
ii  xbmc-data                             4:12.3.1-dmo1                      all          XBMC Media Center (arch-independent data package).
ii  xbmc-skin-confluence                  4:12.3.1-dmo1                      all          XBMC Media Center (Confluence skin).

XBMC settings set as recommended in first post.
As I understood from logs, vdpau driver is working and xbmc can create video output using vdpau. But I see 90-95% cpu load and 3-5 fps on screen. Maybe I need to add any configuration to xorg.conf?
How may I fix it and get vdpau working?
Please open a new thread. This is not about xbmc 12.3 at all.

Perhaps: Some more explanation. 12.3 use X11 Pixmaps and transfers them to output. Radeon is much too slow to do that. Use 13.1rc1 and it will be working much better.