[lithiumjc]

Frustrated.

I have played around with GeexBox a bit and XBMC even less, but seeing as I have this box thought id have a chop at building a MC.

So I managed to get a bit of a franken-box together, I have tried a few different configurations but at the moment there is 8 GB of ram (just because I had it) and a 1 TB HDD with an intel core i3. I have partitioned the hdd to 1 * 10GB partition using ext4 with the rest as unpartitioned space for the time being. I should probably mention that the HDD is a WD green, however I wrote a large file to the desktop and tried to open xbmc within 8 seconds with the same result.

When the machine boots after install, the propper xbmc logo appears and the dots come one for a little while, then the wheels fall off , the screen looks like its stretched out too far, it spits the xbmc backround 'bubbles' up for a second, then a different xbmc logo with 'Frodo 12.1' under it, back to bubbles, back to frodo, then the login screen for xbmcbuntu.

This is just the latest configuration in 3 days worth of stuffing around., the error logs are the same.

here is the boot up error log from the 600 millionth time I have installed this weekend.

http://pastebin.com/EVj1r6tK

I have stretched my linux knowledge to the maximum here having installed the emacs and gdb packages, I also ran all the updates/upgrades.

Here is the lasted error log, complete with stack trace thanks to gdb, although I'm not sure how useful that will be.

http://pastebin.com/W9jVFL8P

Any help you guys could give would be much appreciated by both me, and the wife who is wondering quite vocally why this 'quick install then I'll be out to help' has taken several days.

[lithiumjc]

I should also say, when I try and run xbmc from xbmcbuntu, nothing happens, but another error log file is created, that's what the second log file there is from.

[nickr]

What is your GPU and what drivers are installed - I ask because these are the sort of symptoms you get when the graphics system is insufficient to run xbmc.

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Oh and sorry can't help with the wife problem

[wsnipex]

install a proper GFX driver, you are running software rendering: GL_RENDERER = Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)

[lithiumjc]

I cant believe i didn't think of that.

I got the fglrx package, yet my latest crash log still shows Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (http://pastebin.com/s2KiLp1b) Am i missing something?

[nickr]

What GPU do you have?

[lithiumjc]

it would appear to be a ATI Radeon HD 3450, the only SFF card that I had.

[nickr]

Needs a 'legacy' driver. Blame amd abandonware policy .

[un1versal]

See http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1321752

Its been documented to death

uNi

[lithiumjc]

Hah... yea, that sounds about right....

So i got the driver download from ati, ran it, it failed, xbmc wouldn't even boot as it had no OpenGL renderer. Got the installer to create a .deb, ran it installed all good, restarted and....crash, no logs for start up crash though. Ran it from the desktop and, surprise surprise, crash. This time i do have logs though and the renderer is back to Galium 0.4.

http://pastebin.com/N6Q180ZD


Also when I start up now it doesn't go to the frodo screen or the bubbles, just straight to the ...desktop?

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right. ill give that a go, cheers.

[un1versal]

For the boot to go to XBMC you must be logged in as XBMC user not XBMCbuntu user, whicher one you logged in last gets booted to straight away. Isnt lightdm wonderful? Wait dont answer that.

uNi

[nickr]

Most display managers choose the previous session as default for the next start. So lightdm isn't unusual in that.

[lithiumjc]

Alright, looks like that's got it.

Thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated.

Just don't ever run 'sudo apt-get upgrade' though right?