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Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon beta1

Before going on, check the Wiki FAQ on XBMC Live.

As in the previous releases I need to anticipate that NVIDIA and ATI/AMD users may have to struggle to have a working setup, but that's a limitation of the restricted drivers not being tolerant interms of configuration files. Les't s hope that this new release will allow an higher number of success stories.

Details about the release:

* Based on Ubuntu Jaunty
* NVIDIA drivers: 180.44 (VDPAU included)
* ATI/AMD drivers: Catalyst 9.4
* Intel drivers: default xorg
* Natively supports MCEUSB remotes
* New installer script that allows building of XBMCLive USB bootable disks from any Ubuntu-based system without the need of burning a CD and booting from it.
* new boot script automatically increasing the system audio volume

Finally, the XBMC repositories sources are already configured and the cool script "Aptitude" is included, so updating XBMC to follow the new releases will hopefully be easy - check your disk space!

Wiki references:

Building the ISO image -
Configuring XBMC Live -
Building restricted drivers for XBMC Live

A quick TOC of what has been already asked:

Login to underlining OS: here
XBMC Live with ATI/AMD graphics controller boots to black screen?: here
Is Microsoft's MCE Remote the only remote that works in XBMC Live?: here
Live (HDD install) - Resume from Standby: here
AutoBoot settings for XBMC Live USB?: here - note that this release uses GRUB so info here are not 100% accurate
Backup XBMC Live USB in windows: here
FTP access to Live: here
XBMC live volume output too low: here

Hi
does this version have the hdmi audio working for mobo intel g45 ??

Thanks

FreddyKrueger Wrote:Hi
does this version have the hdmi audio working for mobo intel g45 ??

Thanks

You need to update alsa one step further to get this. I have done it and it works.

Cheers,
Tobias.

Topfs2 Wrote:You need to update alsa one step further to get this. I have done it and it works.

Cheers,
Tobias.

Thanks Tobias, for your answer.....
Is there any guide i could follow

Thanks again

Just burned and installed stuck at blinking cursor ssh is not active will keep posted with my progress.

FreddyKrueger Wrote:Thanks Tobias, for your answer.....
Is there any guide i could follow

Thanks again

SSH in or switch to terminal on the HTPC and do the following


And restart.

(sudo apt-get upgrade is optional but recomended)

You need to tell XBMC or ALSA to use HDMI aswell.
plughw:0,3
in Audio Hardware settings in XBMC, a better way is to tell ALSA default is hdmi and to resample to 48khz but I can't recall the .asoundrc for that right of the bat

The reason we haven't added this "by default" is that you'll need to recompile (make clean and the last 2 steps) whenever there is a kernel upgrade.
I just took this out of memory so I hope you get it working

Cheers,
Tobias

Thanks again Tobias.
There is one thing i don't understand .... "plughw:0,3" where do i put this ??
Is it : Settings-Audio Hardware-Audio Output Device Do i write the entire string ??
and in Passthrough Output Device... what do i write there
Thanks

FreddyKrueger Wrote:Thanks again Tobias.
There is one thing i don't understand .... "plughw:0,3" where do i put this ??
Is it : Settings-Audio Hardware-Audio Output Device Do i write the entire string ??
and in Passthrough Output Device... what do i write there
Thanks

Correct. Just write the entire string "plughw:0,3" (without the "")

Just leave the passthrough output device as is.

indianolajohn Wrote:Just burned and installed stuck at blinking cursor ssh is not active will keep posted with my progress.

I have the same problem
Boot from LiveCD works fine.

indianolajohn Wrote:Just burned and installed stuck at blinking cursor ssh is not active will keep posted with my progress.

Same here:

The XBMC.org latest Live Beta 9.04
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloadi...a=59719440
does not work
on my current Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with its NVidia 6150
chipset and Dualcore Athlon 3800+.

It just crashes, too bad...!

Who did release this untested version ?

Please update and release a new version.

Please also just don´t release just an ISO file,
but also a program that runs under Windows
to make an USB stick version.

I would rather test it just with booting from USB sticks,
instead to burn an ISO CD.
Now I have another CD-R for the wastebin.

With the Tool UnetBootin Version 323 it also did not work to make
a working USB stick.

So please release a fixed version.

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.
P.S. If you don´t release a tool under windows to make an USB drive without burning a CD-R.
please make your ISO compatible, so that I can make directly a USB stick version via
UnetBootin. Many thanks in advance.

cwalker Wrote:I have the same problem
Boot from LiveCD works fine.

For me the LiveCD does not work. When booting the LiveCD without boot params, I see the following messages/errors.


Then it hangs.

I created a LiveUSB boot disk on my desktop, boot up to the live menu choose to install to disk, it finds my HDD as /dev/sda, choose to install it there, partitions the hard drive and errors out upon starting to copy files. error is cannot mount /dev/sdb (USB disk) so it seems to be unmounting the usb drive when it starts to create the fixed disk portion but cannot remount the usb drive to continue the install.

Any thoughts.

Dave

PS. Stefan, take it easy on the devs, they are doing this for FREE after all and unless you actually have a ubuntu desktop system and have tried making one of these live versions with MIC (Image-creator) you have know idea the work involved to make it happen. It's a lot. I have been playing with it for two weeks and have made more coasters than I care to admit - LOL.

Tips @ Stefan and people wasting CD's while trying this

Buy a CD R/W, works beutifully

If no CD R/W burner just burn an ubuntu desktop live cd and then you can boot that, download the zip and use the bundled linux installer.

Reason for no windows tool is that it's a nightmare to support, the code is only usable on windows (linux tools we can use on XBMC Live aswell) and quite frankly creating bootable linuxes on windows is harder (fewer good tools) than in linux.

Although if someone would step up and create a viable tool that would have been awesome.

Also, all who have issues installing, could you try the linux installer instead of XBMC Live from CD?

EDIT: @ stefan, ofc we tried it before releasing it but it's a beta, kindof the point that people try it and fail so we can fix it until golden... I have it running beutifully but I used the linux installer.

Cheers,
Tobias.

thank for the great update. Unfortunately is does not start on my system:

Asus P5N7A-VM, integrated Nvidia Geforce 9300
C2D 3,0 GHz

When choosing Nvidia: it hangs after 2-3 seconds when the XBMC logo shows.

When choosing Nvidia Safe mode: It hangs with the message:
run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory

did I burn a bad CD?

ffrog_8 Wrote:For me the LiveCD does not work. When booting the LiveCD without

Code:

quiet splash

boot params, I see the following messages/errors.

Code:

Found CD Boot Drive at /dev/scd0
will mount root from /dev/scd0
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory

Then it hangs.

same here