I'm running 64bit version of Ubuntu Intrepid and I have it all tweaked and set up to work with my remote, boot with my HDTV and everything. However XBMC 64bit itself is not quite stable: It totally crash if I try to play DVD folders, it crash in menus sometimes, it crash with Apple Movie Time plugin....
I understand now 64bit version is not stable in general because all devs work and debug on 32bit Ubuntu.
So my question is can I install 32bit version of XBMC without reinstalling Ubuntu? What kind of 32bit dependencies I need to install as well to have everything working? Other than standard ia32 package which is there by default.
If anyone can give me straight-forward howto, would be nice. Note I'm new to Ubuntu but consider myself experienced in Slackware which I'm using part or full-time since the '90s.
You know what they say: "...learn Slackware and you know any Linux!", so I'm sure it won't be that hard
search the forums, i know someone's posted about this before. sorry i haven't been keeping 64-bit up to date.
Thanks, malloc. I have searched but found nothing before.
Now when I knew it's there I searched harder and found what you referred to here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=33671
Thats all I needed. I use this guide now and install 32bit chroot'ed env. with bootstrap/schroot here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot
Aside from some minor glitches, adaptations and errors I now have this:
Linux htpc 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:12:22 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Now I'm going to install XBMC and see how it goes with Mesa, X sessions and Lircd
Thanks!
P.S. Links posted to help others who might be interested.
Just be aware that we in no way, shape or form support running XBMC in a chroot, and it will be the first and only thing we blame if you start asking questions.
No worry dude. It'll either work or it won't. I may ask questions for this or that, but thats all. Here, I wanted a hint and malloc gave me one.
I do not expect you to recreate my setup just to debug some misbehaving API that causes a crash. I do not expect you to track all the crashes I have in 64bit version even, although that would be more natural!
So don't expect me to write HOWTO for others to run it the way I am. Don't expect me to provide logs and dumps for AMD64 issues. And I don't expect you to fix any.
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Sound familiar?
As a side note, I installed full Kubuntu inside the chroot, just to try it out! WOW - KDE4 rocks!
gbyte Wrote:As a side note, I installed full Kubuntu inside the chroot, just to try it out! WOW - KDE4 rocks!
I'm quite jealous, I tried for ages to get a chroot set up that would actually allow me to run programs in X from the chroot, in particular for the sake of XBMC, but alas to no avail. Hence I'm still running KDE3 exclusively on my main computer and without XBMC (nvidia+TwinView+KDE4 remains an unusable combination, so I'm stuck with Ubuntu 8.04 for now), while my spare-computer-hooked-to-the-projector runs Kubuntu 8.10 and XBMC on 32-bit.
Is there any timeline/ideas when things might shift towards 64-bit? I'm definitely patient, though, been running 64-bit for years now and it's amazing how much things have changed as far as support goes
