View Full Version : XBMC locks up computer when selecting "Settings"
I am trying to get XBMC working on ubuntu januty (9.04). I installed it from the PPA repository and I can launch the program but when i select the "settings" button on the main menu my entire machine locks up.
Any one else have this issue or have an idea as to how I can fix it?
Please supply more information (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=34655) so that we may be able to help.
TheUni
Running a clean install of ubuntu 9.04 on a toshiba satellite s121 laptop with 2gb ram. the laptop has an intel integrated chipset (815 i think).
I have the laptop hooked up to an lcd tv and running at 1366x768.
For some reason gnome won't let me get that resolution so I am running XFCE as my windows manager. As far as i can tell everything besides XBMC runs fine.
I have previously had this same setup working with XBMC but running under xubuntu 8.10. I didn't have any problems with XBMC before.
As i said in the last post, the problem does not simply lock XBMC but actually the entire machine. Once it locks i can't even get any of the other terminal to come up. The ssh-server also seems to stop working too.
I am running a mem-test to make sure it's not a bad sector of ram.
right now it's a little over half way done (and no errors)
Please post a log (http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Log_file) when it's done. Without that, we can't help.
TheUni
here is my log
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/201035/
Ok, so i've made some headway. Apparently jaunty breaks the intel integrated graphics driver.
see:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582
I followed the direction on the site and the fix to the mtrr bug seems to stop XBMC from locking up the system.
Unfortunately now when i try to play a video file only the audio starts playing. after a few minutes the video eventually appears. Once the video has appeared everything seems to work fine, however before the video shows up the system sees to get locked up and keystrokes don't get processed until the video starts to play.
Anybody else have this problem?