[Vitoriung]

I have asus laptop (i915 driver) and running xbmc-live (ubuntu 9.10) connected to Samsung TV 1360-768

Issue is that everytime it starts both displays and these are activated on resolution 1024x768.

Code:

$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 256mm
   1360x768       60.0 +
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0*
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
LVDS1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
   1024x768       60.0*+
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I can run

Code:

$xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto

and getting just one screen on TV with desired resolution(1360x768), but it doesn't work properly in XBMC itself.
If I setup HD resolution for TV the right part of screen gets black. After restart X wont start and seeing following in crash report:

Code:

03:42:48 T:3078059888 M:1004961792  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/sources.xml
03:42:48 T:3078059888 M:1004961792   DEBUG:     Setting <default> source to : Movies
03:42:48 T:3078059888 M:1005015040    INFO: XRANDR: /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc-xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 0x3e


############### END LOG FILE ################

############ END XBMC CRASH LOG #######

What can I do at this point? Perhaps version of intel driver is not the right one?

[Vitoriung]

to provide more information here is my Xorg log -> http://pastebin.com/9PqAChkf

and complete crash log:

Code:

$ cat xbmc_crashlog-20101030_185132.log
############## XBMC CRASH LOG ###############

################ SYSTEM INFO ################
Date: Sat Oct 30 18:51:32 BST 2010
XBMC Options:
Arch: i686
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:01:29 UTC 2009
Release:
    Distributor ID:     Ubuntu
    Description:        Ubuntu 9.10
    Release:    9.10
    Codename:   karmic
############## END SYSTEM INFO ##############

############### STACK TRACE #################
=====>  Core file: /home/vito/core
        =========================================
############# END STACK TRACE ###############

################# LOG FILE ##################

18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005965312  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: GNU/Linux.  Built on Aug 19 2010 (SVN:26018)
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/vito/.xbmc/userdata
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/vito/.xbmc
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/vito/.xbmc/temp
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/vito/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
18:51:31 T:3077961584 M:1005936640  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005821952  NOTICE: Setup SDL
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005092864  NOTICE: load settings...
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005092864  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005092864  NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005068288  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005068288  NOTICE: Checking resolution 13
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005105152  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: No advancedsettings.xml to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: Enabled debug logging due to GUI setting (2)
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/sources.xml
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005121536   DEBUG:     Setting <default> source to : Movies
18:51:32 T:3077961584 M:1005092864    INFO: XRANDR: /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc-xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 0x3e


############### END LOG FILE ################

############ END XBMC CRASH LOG #############

As I couldn't start X, deleting ~/.xbmc/userdata/guisettings.xml will reset the resolution back to 1024x768 and makes it working again.

[Vitoriung]

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[poofyhairguy]

Ubuntu 9.10's Intel driver was really messed up. Upgrade to 10.10 if you can....

[Vitoriung]

Ubuntu 9.10's Intel driver was really messed up. Upgrade to 10.10 if you can....

Is there any howto upgrade XBMC-Live distro to 10.10?
I tried Mythbuntu 10.10 with xbmc and it works fine there actually, TROUBLE is that I can't use lirc_sir module because it crashes with "Oops" in the kernel so I can't use remote control and it takes much longer to boot up,
so I'd still prefer to stick with XBMC-Live distro.

Perhaps upgrading only Intel driver and xorg server would do the job? Suppose it might not be that trivial..

Thanks