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I am getting a white screen when I start XBMC on XP 32.
I am using a P4 Hyperthreading and Matrox P650 LP PCI with the latest video drivers.
The screen is completely white except when I move the mouse across it - the cursor briefly appears and windows pop up within the screen as if it is trying to display but never quite making it.
This is a brand new install of XP and XBMC - I downloaded the latest XP patches as well.
Any ideas?
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42708
think it has something to do with your graphicscard. had that too yesterday. it was my nvidia driver wich restarted itself after a failure. a reboot fixed the problem for me.
Same issue here...
Same video card, similar processor.
Windows XP SP3
Debug log:
http://pastebin.com/m5e095380
SlaveUnit
2009-04-15, 04:36
Try renaming (or erasing) the startup logo. Its in the media folder. I always have garble on teh screen with an ATI vid card when its there.
natethomas
2009-04-15, 05:26
"GL_VERSION = 1.3"
Is it possible that Matrox doesn't update OpenGL? You want to have OpenGL 2.0 or greater, and you are currently not running that. The crazy thing is that you are able to start and run everything now.
Out of curiosity, when you say same issue, does XBMC eventually work? It just takes a second/requires a moving of the mouse?
natethomas
2009-04-15, 05:28
"DEBUG: Surface::CSurface::Flip - missed requested swap"
Seeing several dozens of these is also probably not a great thing.
I only know what I remember from when Matrox made graphics cards used for games, but back then their OpenGL support was awful. You should be able to pick up a new card for $40 or so that supports OpenGL 2 (or 3).
Looks like I'll be shopping for a new card :sad:
I did a bit of testing and it looks like the card "almost" supports OpenGL 1.4, but not quite.
It's the weirdest thing, because XBMC comes up, I can see system info and the RSS feed. I can here nav sounds and navigate the menus (albeit blindly).
I went ahead and tried Mediaportal as well, it runs, but soooo slowly. Probably due to the 64MB instead of recommended 128MB video memory.
All this trouble to move away from SageTV which worked but didn't offer all the features I wanted.
Any suggestions on a relatively cheap AGP card that will run everything rather smoothly? Seems like the Nvidia FX5200 is pretty ubiquitous.