[samsonluk]

If all this is succesfully working, we will change xubuntu to also automatically start xbmc and so on.

Finally get it up and running after 2 days fights, the flight was not with XBMC but with Ubuntu installation in my laptop...

I also failed to get Xubuntu install but I finally get Ubuntu server up and running, the installation process also attempt to detect the network card and hang in the middle, I have to abort and skip everything related with network hardware detection during install and finally complete the whole process.

Once Ubuntu server up, I found the network interface can actually be bring up by "ifconfig p5p1 up", yes, the network interface become p5p1 but not eth0. lsmod show that the kernel module to support this odd card is listed as atl1c.

I follow the howto step by step to install XBMC and reboot. Bingo! XBMC is now up and running, the only process show up in the laptop screen. XBMC main screen also immediately mirrored to TV while connecting the HDMI cable then I complete the rest of the XBMC settings + create advancedsettings.xml in howto step 4 and reboot.

Everything seems okay, sound also output in TV side but the only problem left is that instead of 1080p I can only get 720p in the TV. Would it be due to my laptop screen's max resolution is only 1366x768? In Windows, I can get both display having their max resolution by extending the desktop but how can I do this in Ubuntu / XBMC?

Are you in need of doing Bitstream Audio passthrough?

also, I am new to multimedia stuff and how can I know if I need this Bitstream Audio passthrough?

Thanks again for your patient and advises!

dmesg
cat /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo
dpkg -l |grep mesa