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rickx
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time passes, but nothing happens (??) I'm working on the third machine with ion chipset and all have this problem: no projectm visualizations, black screen instead. Sometimes playing a movie first and then playing music with visualizations works. When it does, it can play the whole afternoon without crashing. When it does not work, it crashes (and restarts) leaving no traces in the log after not more than 5-10 minutes. I'm on minimal jaunty with rev. 24886. Zotac ion mb, 1920x1080 res., nvidia 190.42. Kernel is custom 2.6.31.6. No other suspect services like samba running.
Anybody?
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Hi,
I have the same problem - just after starting the computer running XBMC 9.11 beta 2, Ubuntu 9.10, I am unable to see any visualization from Project M. My hardware is Zotac ION with latest NVidia drivers 190.42. If I played some video before, the Project M suddenly shows. It seems that the visualisation doesn't properly initialize the graphics card.
If you want some additional information, you can mail me at honza (dot) svec a gmail.com .
Thank you for feedback
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Same here, with Camelot beta2
Both my 9400m motherboard Karmic minimal install and
also with my 8600m laptop video card Ubuntu Karmic full install
ProjectM gives a black screen.
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beefke
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Same here:
Nvidia 8200, Karmic, beta2, 190.42
Could this be nvidia related?
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i can confirm that adding export LC_ALL="C" to /usr/bin/xbmc or /usr/local/bin/xbmc, depending on the location of the file, still fixes the projectM vis... i noticed too that playing a music plugin and trying to output a vis (which i think is impossible, as plugins use dvdplayer instead of paplayer, as far as i can remember) completely breaks vis, no way to have projectM again, even after playing a video or anything.
can anyone with this problem confirm?
btw, i'm going to install on my ati-based laptop just to see if it depends on nvidia, as all my other pcs are nvidia based, or somehow on the locale, as setting LC_ALL seems to fix it
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just built 25856 and i still need to export LC_ALL, no way yet...
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Clumsy
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Weird, definately works fine now here. What does typing "locale" in console give you as output ?
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Clumsy
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Hm, I just tried to reproduce your issue by starting XBMC like this:
LC_ALL='it_IT.UTF-8' /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin
As expected the bug is fixed here though. Not sure what might be going on with your setup, maybe post a complete debug log as well.
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I had the same problem on:
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
with dutch interface.
with latest xbmc from repos.
I had black screen with projectm.
And when I used export LC_ALL="C" and then started xbmc the problem was resolved.