[Minnoit]

Hi, I have installed XBMC on a Lucid Ubuntu, dual core p4 with nvidia g210 and all is fine: I will try installing a remote controller on this system :-)

Meanwhile, I have installed XBMC on another system:
dual core AMD athlon 64 5200
ati radeon HD4800
Ubuntu Lucid 64bit
XBMC 1:9.11-ubuntu3 from team-xbmc ppa

I have installed the proprietary driver downloaded from ati website.
On that system, gxine freeze Ubuntu really often so I have removed it. Others player are ok (vlc, smplayer, totem) but, obviously, something is not ok in this system...
With XBMC, initially I had problems playing videos because the color was incorrect. Then, I have set render type to ARB in XBMC system video options and now colors are ok.

The problem is that when I see a slideshow, the images zoom, move and swich at high speed. The speed is visibly changing between two values during the slideshow (but is always at high speed). Changing the time of the slideshow in the options do not take effect: I can set 20s but the slideshow will display an image for about 1 or 2s.
Disabling zoom and pan effects do not solve the problem.
Also, in the first screen of XBMC, we can see a string moving at the bottom, from the right to the left of the screen. That string is not moving at constant speed, like for the slideshow.
No matter if I use compiz or not. I have tried to lock the cpu freq. but that do not take effect.
I do not know if that is a XBMC, Ubuntu or ati driver problem.
Also, sometimes, if I stop a playback of a movie will crash XBMC.
Attached are log and crashlog files.

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/492671/plain/
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/492672/plain/

Can someone help me?
sorry for bad English

[Minnoit]

I have tried the xbmc-live iso but the problem is the same :-(
I had read a post from another user that had the same problems.
He too have an amd + ati system so now I ask if there are some users here with amd + ati and an xbmc installation without problems.

[Minnoit]

Well, I am here again...
I had tried the xbmc version from team-xbmc-svn ppa.
With this version, the slideshow is a little better but still unusable.
Searching for bugs, I have found this (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8769) that seem related to my problems.
That patch have been posted 7 month ago but...
From http://trac.xbmc.org/browser I have searched /xbmc/SlideShowPicture.cpp in 9.11 and Dharma branch.
In each case I can see the code without the patch applied.
9.11 (Camelot) is 9 month old.
But /xbmc/SlideShowPicture.cpp file in Dharma branch is actually 3 month old.
I am not en expert and I do not know why. Also, I do not know if that code is the same used for the ppa repository.

[Broes]

Hi Minnoit,

Same problem overhere, slideshow at high speed and a frozen display.
The frozen display seems to appear random.
I don't know where to look for the XBMC version, I installed it according the XBMC wiki

Processor 2x Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Operating System Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 64bit
OpenGL Renderer ATI Radeon HD 3870
ATIFGLEXTENSION
ATIFGLRXDRI
XBMC team-xbmc ppa

[NightStormWolf]

I have tried the xbmc-live iso but the problem is the same :-(
I had read a post from another user that had the same problems.
He too have an amd + ati system so now I ask if there are some users here with amd + ati and an xbmc installation without problems.

I'm running Gentoo Linux 32bit and Dharma Beta 2 (from source no package manager) with no problems, but it took a little work to get there. :p

NOT using ATI proprietary driver (never worked regardless of what i did), using radeon driver with audio over HDMI.

Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4200 (Built into AMD 785G chipset)

[Minnoit]

I'm running Gentoo Linux 32bit and Dharma Beta 2 (from source no package manager) with no problems, but it took a little work to get there. :p

NOT using ATI proprietary driver (never worked regardless of what i did), using radeon driver with audio over HDMI.

Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4200 (Built into AMD 785G chipset)

Thank you for your reply, I had surrendered and had removed xbmc ...
Previously I had tried the proprietary drivers provided by ubuntu, and the package downloaded from ATI. As suggested, I tried to disable the proprietary driver, everything is slow as can be expected (but acceptable) and there was still the problem of the slideshow. But I tried to disable Compiz and everything seems finally solved!
Not wanting to completely disable compiz, I replaced the menu command to launch xbmc to launch this script:

Code:

/usr/bin/metacity --replace &
/usr/bin/xbmc
/usr/bin/compiz --replace &

The version of xbmc I use is https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ppa
Thanks :-)