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The other night, I installed Fedora 14 and XBMC RC1 (from Fedora repos) on NT-330i (Atom+ION, 1GB RAM). When I ran xbmc, it was EXTREMELY slow.
I haven't had a chance to check closely yet, but my first suspicion is that it wants more RAM. So, my question is, how much RAM does XBMC need?
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1gb of ram should be fine - sounds more like you have other config issues, more info needed.
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we have a dedicated netbox thread in the hardware subforum. ubuntu runs fine on the machine, 1GB is no big problem but could be problematic for HD&VDPAU as the BIOS may only assign 128MB to the GPU. 1x2GB (256MB dedicated GPU RAM) are ideal, no option to assign manually.
my best guess would be that accelerated nvidia driver is missing in your fedora install.
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it also runs extremely slow on my acer revo (ion with 2 gb ram) running fedora-13.
the solution was to install the nvidia 3d drivers.
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Thanks everyone! Installing kmod-nvidia indeed fixed the slowness. It's too bad that nvidia doesn't want to open up the hardware, but that's offtopic..
HTH: indeed, the BIOS allocated 128M for video and doesn't let me change it. You're saying that if I upgrade to 2GB, it'll switch to 256M?
And yes I know Fedora is not supported. But I've compiled and successfully ran XBMC on F10 before.. now it's a lot easier with it sitting pre-built in the repositories. It seems to work great without any tweaking so far (IR remote, installs itself as a window manager, etc...)
) I would still guess, RAM is probably not the issue. XBMC doesn't use much RAM for it's gui, it used to run on a xbox with 64MB of RAM.
