XBMC Live 8.10 (Atlantis) released

November 15th, 2008 lcapriotti

The new release is out in public. It contains the following notable changes:

  • ATI/AMD Catalyst 8.9
  • unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer; new in this version is the hard disk installation:

    - it creates three partitions on the hard disk (boot, fat32 – swap – media, ext3)
    - it disables the “root” login (as per Ubuntu standards)
    - it asks for the reset of the “xbmc” password

  • the XBMC profile (userdata, skins, settings, etc) is saved onto the root of the USB flash disk in a directory “dotXBMC” so that it should be easier to add skins and backup settings and library databases
  • the XBMC log file is saved onto the root of the USB flash disk to ease debugging

Enjoy, and come to the forums to provide feedback!

  1. XBMC FTW
    November 20th, 2008 at 09:47 | #1
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    Thank you, but how do I disable the graphic card selection menu after I have installed XBMC Live to a USB flash disk? I want to use this USB flash disk as my permanent installation on this machine, I always want it to use NVIDIA graphics and not get up that menu.

    I tested installing XBMC Live to a SATA hard disk drive and it then no longer show the menu which is what I want, however I like to not have a SATA hard disk drive in this machine as I instead only want to use the USB flash disk, again without the graphic card selection menu.

  2. lcapriotti
    November 20th, 2008 at 10:01 | #2
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    There is a skicky in XBMC Live support forum explaining the needed changes:

    http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=37441

  3. Intrepid
    November 20th, 2008 at 10:18 | #3
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    Thanks this is great! Will we see an experimental XBMC Live version based on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Daily Mobile or MID image anytime soon?
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Mobile?action=show&redirect=MobileAndEmbedded

    Looking forward to using the new updated goodies that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), like Linux Kernel 2.6.27, X.Org 7.4, X Server 1.5.0, Mesa 7.2, DRM version 2.3.1, Network Manager 0.7, Samba 3.2, and newer graphics drives.

    Hope you will also include Flash Player 10 or later so that one can play Hulu and other RTMP SWF streams via plugins like Boxee does?

  4. OpenChrome
    November 21st, 2008 at 05:11 | #4
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    Any chance of you adding the OpenChrome driver for VIA Chrome graphics hardware?
    http://www.openchrome.org

    Also graphic chip manufacturer detection to XBMC Live so that graphic card selection menu will no longer be needed?

  5. Maximilian
    November 21st, 2008 at 11:10 | #5
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    GeeXboX comes with a utility called “GeeXboX ISO generator” which lets you customize the GeeXboX discs.
    http://geexbox.org/en/generator.html

    Would be cool if XBMC Live would have a ISO generator with these functions:
    # Include your media files (videos/music/pictures).
    # Add extra fonts for Asian users.
    # Add extra skins and themes.
    # Add backdrops for skins.
    # Edit advancedsettings.xml
    # Configure the default network settings.
    # Configure the default audio related options.
    # Configure the default video related options.
    # Configure the picture video related options.
    # Configure the remote control and receiver to be used.
    # Configure the LCD display.
    # Change default skin, theme, fonts and charset encoding.

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