I'm frustrated!
I'm trying to run xbmc on my full install of Jaunty on my new Acer Revo.
So far I have been able to install the Audio and Video Drivers.
At first, I installed the 190 drivers (from Nvidia) but then I read (somewhere) that these drivers werent good, so I (tried) to uninstall, but couldnt so what I did instead is install the nvidia-glx-185...
I tried to install using the .run script without luck, since its reporting that it cannot build a kernel for it, so I went ahead and just installed this nvidia-glx-185
I'm very frustrated as I cannot run xbmc under ANY circumstances, I keep on getting the:
Quote: XBMC needs OpenGL hardware accelerated rendering
Please help me.. I'm REALLY frustrated (I've also tried to look in the forum, but trying to look inside ten million pages where the straight answer might be somewhere, is kind of pointless...
Could I have a small straight answer?
Maybe I need to *try* to uninstall all my graphics drivers (which I already did without luck) and install again with the older version (which I already did try without luck whatsoever, courtesy of our "kernel couldnt be built" thingy)
HELP
What user do you use to start xbmc ?
For exemple if it's user: "xbmc" , can you check by typing this on your console:
groups xbmc
You shoudl have "video" groups listed here, if not, add it.
I just checked that, it wasnt.. I added xbmc to the video group, but still no luck when i try to open the app
I'm on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and I get this error when I load XBMC:
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/2121/xbmcerror.jpg
As you can see, I have an nVidia driver enabled for my graphics card, and it appears to be working fine. I guess it's not logging anything, either -- I deleted xbmc.log (to get a clean log of the error) and it's not re-creating the file. (if I create an empty xbmc.log, it's not populating it with anything, either)
It used to work just fine, and I don't think I've made any major system changes since then. In fact, just last night it was working correctly. Where should I start looking?
Look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Make sure it has this in it:
Code:
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Make sure it has this in it:
Code:
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Just reinstall your nvidia drivers. Same thing happened to me the other day (using manually installed drivers). I'm guessing it had to do with that libc chicanery in updates.
I'm having the same problem with ION. I've already added glx to module section and xbmc is in video group. any ideas?
I opened the xorg.conf file, and it was empty :O
Added the lines you said pashdown
The I tried to run xbmc... no luck
This is weird ....
What about /etc/X11/XF86Config ? Does that exist?
Here is a minimal xorg.conf. If you have an XF86Config file, mv that to XF86Config.bak and use the xorg.conf from the wiki.
pashdown Wrote:What about /etc/X11/XF86Config ? Does that exist? Here is a minimal xorg.conf. If you have an XF86Config file, mv that to XF86Config.bak and use the xorg.conf from the wiki.
Nope... no /etc/X11/XF86Confi file... however I added those xorg.conf settings to my xorg.conf file, then I retried to launch XBMC.
This time, I had the XBMC logo on-screen shortly and the app exited (I believe it crashed somehow)
Before doing that (adding the xorg.conf settings to the file), I re-intalled the 190 Nvidia Drivers and rebooted
EDIT:
I'm adding my crash log, hope it's somewhat useful
http://pastebin.com/f46874d31
There are only two users on my computer (root and myself). Neither of us were in the video group. I added us, restarted, and I'm getting the same error.
I have the glx within xorg.conf. Here's my full xorg.conf file:
http://pastebin.com/m543be9ca
XBMC is still not writing anything to the log. I ran "xbmc" from the command line, and it printed this to stderr:
http://pastebin.com/m76b14abb
Any ideas?
EDIT: When I try to run glxgears, I get:
Quote:Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
so it's definitely not XBMC (I didn't think it was...). I'll let you know if I find a solution.
Edit2: Looking at my Xorg.0.log, it appears that the GLX module isn't loading:
http://pastebin.com/m4ddd5e59 (error lines in bold)
Do you have Compiz desktop effects enabled? They shouldn't be.
pashdown Wrote:Do you have Compiz desktop effects enabled? They shouldn't be.
In Ubuntu, under System >> Preferences >> Appearance, Visual Effects are at None. I don't see any Compiz effects. Should I check somewhere else?
(btw, in case you didn't see, I edited my last post twice with some more info)
I disabled compiz and it worked!!!
Will disabling compiz work against any other video acceleration outside xbmc?
EDIT:
Now its not working
I was running (when I disabled compiz) aptitude, whilst trying to install mono, aptitude also "fixed" an nvidia glx package.
I thought it was going to end it once and for all, but it seems its again not woriking... here's the log:
http://pastebin.com/fb907afe
NOTE: Compiz is disabled