2009-03-14, 14:27
you must learn some linux basics before asking questions. Because some times its difficult to explane. @olympia, you are very patient person and also charitable
bobb0 Wrote:Instead, I am using the XBMCLive scripts to run X/XBMC as a service. I just copied the files from svn XBMC/tools/XBMCLive to the appropriate locations and pared down the /etc/init.d/xbmc script, removing all the unnecessary fs mounting stuff. (Literally I pared it down to stop usplash, runXBMC.sh)
bobb0 Wrote:Also, I find usplash doesn't stay on during the bootup. It seems to appear, pulse a number of times and then drop back to the console where it starts with "Setting preliminary keymap... [ OK ]" which is a pretty early-on message in the boot sequence. I prolly just messed it up somehow, but since it only seems to delay the boot process, I'm looking to remove usplash all together for now.
bobb0 Wrote:Edit: I was just reading the posts above, and wanted to add. I didn't like the mini iso (I guess I am just too impatient when it comes to installing the OS. Perhaps that is because I did it 20 times (approx) before getting things setup the way I liked... anyway, I used the 8.10 alternate install cd. The steps were the exact same, same menus, etc and I didn't have to wait to download packages. I guess I'd just rather do a "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" post-install.
olympia Wrote:You might be right, but you also forgeting the fact, that it is working for a lot of people in THIS way. So maybe not the nicest way, but it works! Anyway, I will have a look into this. If it can also better satisfy linux geeks, than I will change this.
Why it is not working for Halvliter, is the fact that he is ignoring (God knows why) that the guide is for minimal version. Maybe he was thinking that this statement of the begining of the guide is a joke.
pyrates Wrote:edit: I see you fixed the wiki entry to use .bash_login, but you also need to put to rename /home/username/.xsession to /home/username/.Xsession. The capital X is important when startx is ran.
olympia Wrote:That's simple not true!
...and as I mentioned earlier, I only modified .bash_profile to .bash_login because it more nice, official and professional way. Not because it was not working on that way...
olympia Wrote:Is ssh server installed for sure? Did you try
apt-get install openssh-server
?
Anyway, for me, Intrepid with vdpau branch seems to be a real winner combo as of today...
pyrates Wrote:Well it didn't work for me until I made those 2 changes
Asswipe44 Wrote:Yeah, I tried and it said that it's already installed. Absolutely clueless as to where the problem is.
Oh well, I'm glad I was able to get the Intrepid version up and running but just wondering how to install the VDPAU build as per your instructions. I'm guessing VDPAU is available in my case since I have the same ASUS board as you. I replaced the regular XBMC checkout with the one I found on the forums (the post where it's suggested not to "make install") and proceeded with your instructions the rest of the way.
Thanks for your already tremendous amount of help in Linux.
cd $home
svn checkout https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/xbmc-vdpau/XBMC
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-pulse
make -j2
sudo make install
Asswipe44 Wrote:Awesome! Were there any additional tweaks you did to your mobo? Currently, the only thing I changed from the default was the Intel Speedstep feature to enable CPU scaling.
Thank you SO MUCH!!
Asswipe44 Wrote:Got it. I'm guessing the 512 MB option is under Chipset Configuration and if so, I just set the buffer mode to manual and select it, correct?