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install graphical drivers? disable composite?
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I too have this slowness happening, luckily on only 1 of my 3 boxes. To clarify, there is at least 10 seconds pause between navigating each keypress. It happens with the keyboard as well as the remote, and it happens this slowly in VNC also. I run MythTV on this box, and the menus there present perfectly. The graphics card is a Geforce 6150 integrated card.
I have uninstalled/reinstalled xbmc, disabled composite in compiz, launched unity 2D, launched as XBMC only, tried XFCE, and disabled VDPAU. Nothing seems to help.
I did notice that in 12.04, the nvidia driver is 295 whereas I was on 280 in 11.10. I did uninstall the nvidia drivers (forcing it to use the open source variant) and the menus were much quicker, although still not up to par. Video with the opensource variant was useless. I suspect it has something to do with the 295 drivers not working right with this particular video card.
I tried to load an earlier Nvidia driver, but Ubuntu doesn't seem to want me to (synaptic flags earlier versions as broken and will not let me install them.) I feel like if I could figure out how to backport Nvidia to 280, all would be well.
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After i've upgraded when i try to start something within XBMC i get the EDEN 11 logo and then it restarts xbmc.
at the moment it cannot play anything forced to reinstall
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Well, I had this experience after doing upgrade to 11.04, and learned that its NOT a good idea to do a system upgrade before it has been 'cleared' in here before. Back then I had to go back to 10.10 and since it was working flawlessly (and it was my HTPC build anyways, so the main purpouse is XBMC nothing else) decided to stick with it untill I had to upgrade (if I really had to).
Some days ago I got a msg from Updates that said that 10.10 will no longer be supported (which was expected) but as it keeps working and works flawlessly for XBMC HTPC usage I dont think I really need to change.
But, I was wondering if 12.04 was supported already then I would try and move with a different hard drive, and basically you guys have reinforced my idea of staying with the prior to current version (should I decide to get into a more recent Ubuntu).
I suggest that, go back to 11.10, and wait untill 12.04 has been given the OK for XBMC.
BTW, for the powers that be, the wiki still lists Ubuntu versions that are already WAAAAAAY out of support cycles (perhaps only 8.04 has because of being the LTS), and it would be a logical place for Ubuntu users to see which versions are OK for XBMC.
Acer something AMD A8-3800K with Trinity Radeon HD6650 (512MB), 10GB DDR3, Ubuntu 15.04, NO KODI HELP Audio: Working great Analog 5.1 (with Infinity Reference Sub and Center).
) and put XBMC on top in about 3 hours.
