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I had xbmc installed and working but my current GPU (nvidia geforce 9400 I believe) did not have HDMI out. I bought a new card that had HDMI (Radeon HD4650), put the card in the computer and when I booted XBMC with HDMI it went straight to the terminal prompt. When I press ctrl-alt-f7 to go to the XBMC GUI it just goes to a blank screen. Additionally, while the terminal is the only thing I can see and work with even it will flicker at about 30 second intervals. Anyone have any idea what to do about this? Is the new card I bought not compatible? Please help me...

PS:

Assuming I can get this working, anyone know an easy way to get XBMC to recognize my 2 other internal hdds? They weren't showing up when I had it installed before and I'm not very good with Linux terminal so I didn't know what to do.

You didn't read one of the 9 thousand threads that said "Don't buy an ATI card if you plan on reading linux"?

Also, Xorg.conf is still looking for Nvidia drivers/nvidia card. SSH in and regenerate it

darkscout Wrote:You didn't read one of the 9 thousand threads that said "Don't buy an ATI card if you plan on reading linux"?

Sorry, but no, I didn't. If I had I would not have purchased the card I did. What I really need is not someone being a smart-ass, but someone who actually cares to help someone in need.

darkscout Wrote:Also, Xorg.conf is still looking for Nvidia drivers/nvidia card. SSH in and regenerate it

More detailed instructions would be helpful since, as I stated in my first post, I'm not very good with linux terminal.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help.

Assuming you can get to ssh. (If you can't google "linux ssh")

Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Should do it.

or try

Code:
sudo X -configure

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ch...nerate+ati

My xorg.conf when I started this was this:

Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder75)  Thu Apr 22 11:44:23 P$

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier     "Layout0"

    Screen      0  "Screen0"

    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

EndSection

Section "Files"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default

    Identifier     "Mouse0"

    Driver         "mouse"

    Option         "Protocol" "auto"

    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"

    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default

    Identifier     "Keyboard0"

    Driver         "kbd"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier     "Monitor0"

    VendorName     "Unknown"

    ModelName      "Unknown"

    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0

    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0

    Option         "DPMS"

EndSection

Section "Device"

    Identifier     "Device0"

    Driver         "nvidia"

    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

    Option      "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"

    Option      "HWCursor" "Off"

    Identifier     "Screen0"

    Device         "Device0"

    Monitor        "Monitor0"

    DefaultDepth    24

    Option         "NoLogo" "True"

    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "False"

    SubSection     "Display"

        Depth       24

    EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

    Option         "Composite" "Disable"

EndSection

I ran the first command then checked xorg.conf and it hadn't changed. I rebooted the pc then checked again and still no change. I did the same with the other command and now xorg.conf reads:

Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder75)  Thu Apr 22 11:44:23 P$

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier     "Layout0"

    Screen      0  "Screen0"

    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

EndSection

Section "Files"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default

    Identifier     "Mouse0"

    Driver         "mouse"

    Option         "Protocol" "auto"

    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"

    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default

    Identifier     "Keyboard0"

    Driver         "kbd"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier     "Monitor0"

    VendorName     "Unknown"

    ModelName      "Unknown"

    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0

    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0

    Option         "DPMS"

EndSection

Section "Device"

    Identifier     "Device0"

    Driver         "nvidia"

    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

    Option      "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"

    Option      "HWCursor" "Off"

    Identifier     "Screen0"

    Device         "Device0"

    Monitor        "Monitor0"

    DefaultDepth    24

    Option         "NoLogo" "True"

    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "False"

    SubSection     "Display"

        Depth       24

    EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

    Option         "Composite" "Disable"

EndSection

These appear to be identical to me, so I'm assuming the commands either failed or worked but didn't have the intended results. There were no errors that I saw when running them, although when running

Code:
sudo X -configure

I got the following readout

Code:
X.Org X Server 1.7.6

Release Date: 2010-03-17

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-28-server i686 Ubuntu

Current Operating System: Linux XBMCLive 2.6.32-26-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 09:00:03 UTC 2010 i686

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic root=UUID=cb5b1948-369a-4c66-a575-1edf5b782556 ro quiet splash xbmc=autostart,nodiskmount loglevel=0 video=vesafb

Build Date: 10 November 2010  11:25:26AM

xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.4 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)

Current version of pixman: 0.16.4

        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

        to make sure that you have the latest version.

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,

        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jan 14 12:54:50 2011

List of video drivers:

        rendition

        v4l

        nouveau

        siliconmotion

        i740

        s3virge

        s3

        nv

        tseng

        voodoo

        cirrus

        intel

        ark

        radeon

        mach64

        sis

        sisusb

        tdfx

        neomagic

        r128

        ztv

        trident

        savage

        apm

        geode

        vmware

        nvidia

        openchrome

        mga

        chips

        i128

        ati

        fbdev

        vesa

(++) Using config file: "/home/xbmc/xorg.conf.new"

(==) Using config directory: "/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d"

(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol

(II) [KMS] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol, no kernel modesetting.

Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.

  Configuration failed.

ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

Right at the end it says "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed." Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

Another command I ran as part of some troubleshooting steps from another forum was

Code:
lspci -nn | grep VGA

which gave me

Code:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8300] [10de:0848] (rev a2)

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670] [1002:9490]

I'm just trying to anything I can to avoid having to get another vid card for this pc as this is the third one I've tried.

Thanks for your help, and any more would be most appreciated.

Disable the onboard video in BIOS.

Is there any way you can return the card and get a Nvidia one? Even the cheapest Nvidia card out there (GT210) will do better in the long run thanks to better drivers.

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