2013-09-22, 17:40
I have found most of the more recent gotham builds to be flaky.
- I had a persistent startup problem with the most recent build: It would freeze on the XBMC splash screen. The only workaround I found was to killall xvmc.bin. deleting guisettings may have helped initially, as it booted ok with no guisettings file. Subsequent boots froze again, however;
- every build I tried since august has messed up the video calibration (the widths of interface elements are distorted) between restarts and has to be manually corrected.
- since people have mentioned CEC issues, I was having CEC trouble with many gotham builds throughout August, but this seemed to be resoved with the mid-september build.
- generally less stable.
I am, again, back with the July 7 build. Some features are definitely slower, but it is the most reliable Gotham build I have used.
- I had a persistent startup problem with the most recent build: It would freeze on the XBMC splash screen. The only workaround I found was to killall xvmc.bin. deleting guisettings may have helped initially, as it booted ok with no guisettings file. Subsequent boots froze again, however;
- every build I tried since august has messed up the video calibration (the widths of interface elements are distorted) between restarts and has to be manually corrected.
- since people have mentioned CEC issues, I was having CEC trouble with many gotham builds throughout August, but this seemed to be resoved with the mid-september build.
- generally less stable.
I am, again, back with the July 7 build. Some features are definitely slower, but it is the most reliable Gotham build I have used.