View Full Version : XBMC Live on Dell Studio Hybrid?
diazamet
2008-09-22, 00:03
Has anybody tried running Linux XBMC on one of these?
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-studio-hybrid?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs
Gamester17
2008-09-22, 02:31
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35329
Bojangles
2008-10-03, 18:17
I downloaded XBMC LiveCD yesterday, and tried it on a Dell studio hybrid, and couldn't get it working.
I expected to use the Intel graphics option, but after seeing the splash screen and progress bar, I got a whole bunch of strange horizontal white lines on a black screen.
I then tried the other two options (not expecting success), and after seeing the splash screen and progress bar, they each then sat at a login prompt and flickered.
I'll try the windows version tonight, but I was hoping not to have to install anything (borrowed from work to try out before purchasing one myself).
Anyone else have this trouble with XBMC Live on a Dell Studio Hybrid?
I downloaded XBMC LiveCD yesterday, and tried it on a Dell studio hybrid, and couldn't get it working.
I expected to use the Intel graphics option, but after seeing the splash screen and progress bar, I got a whole bunch of strange horizontal white lines on a black screen.
Anyone else have this trouble with XBMC Live on a Dell Studio Hybrid?
I'm getting almost the same result: for all three options, I see a flickering login screen. I left the nvidia (default) just sit for a bit, and it eventually settled down, and isn't flickering anymore.
Now to debug the video!
So far, this is not going well. XBMC Live wouldn't install to the hard drive. The install script was failing on line 175, where is was trying to calculate the size, in MB, of the second HD. Unfortunately, there is no second HD, so that was failing. To add insult to injury, I appeared to be in a chroot jail and couldn't find anything (I no longer think I was, but I haven't verified yet). It also can't find the CD ROM on its own because, I guess, the developers have never seen a SATA-attached CD drive. Here are the steps I took to get around all this:
mount /dev/scd0 /mnt # this mounts the cd-rom
mkdir /tmp/root
mount -o loop /mnt/rootfs.img /tmp/root
cp /tmp/root/usr/bin/installXBMC.sh /tmp
edit /tmp/installXBMC.sh (I use vi, YMMV)
go to line 163 and insert a line that says "nDisks=1"
edit line 76 to add "scd0" to the drive list.
/tmp/installXBMC.sh
Unfortunately, X is not starting up right, and I really buggered it, so I'm going to have to start over.
Yeah, I can't convince XBMC live's X to work on this beast. Looking at the Ubuntu forums, older intel video drivers don't work. There have been reports of people getting it to work by using the vesa drivers on 8.04, but it definitely works with 8.10 because Ibex has the latest intel video drivers.