It’s time to test XBMC Live 8.10.2 Beta1
Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 8.10.2b1
This BETA release has to be considered as a total fresh start, since not only it is based on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10.2), but also because I used a fresh, updated installation of the build tool.
It also marks the start to a new approach: I have created some pages in the XBMC Wiki where both the build process and the configuration process are briefly described, and I am looking forward to users’ contributions in these pages so that both the quality and the completeness of the documents could increase. Not to mention omissisions and mistakes that this new beta release will carry in.
I need to stress the fact that this release was not tested in all details, and issues may arise here and there. However, identifying issues is the main cause I’m releasing it in the public: with help of all of you we may end up with something that barely works (sarcasm here…).
I can anticipate that NVIDIA and ATI/AMD users may have to struggle to have a working setup, as in the previous releases, but that’s a limitation of the restricted drivers not being tolerant interms of configuration files. Les’t s hope that the newer releases will allow an higher number of success stories.
Details about the release:
- NVIDIA drivers: 180.29
- ATI/AMD drivers: Catalyst 9.1
- Natively supports MCEUSB remotes
- New installer script that allows building of XBMC Live USB bootable disks from any Ubuntu-based system without the need of burning a CD and booting from it.
Finally, the SVN repositories sources are already configured, so updating XBMC to follow the bleeding edge will hopefully be easy – check your disk space!
Wiki references:
Building the ISO image – Configuring XBMC Live – Building restricted drivers for XBMC Live
I thought it was called “XBMC Live” and not “XBMCLive” these days?
I tried to get this beta work on a Eeetop (touchscreen) and failed so far.
I am able to boot the Intel version in decent boot time.
However, the display won’t show nothing, but different ‘clic’ sounds are played when using the keyboard. This makes me think it’s correclty loaded, and just a matter of grapics.
I hope to see it working anytime soon ;)
Tell me how I could help.
I’m not certain, but I think “Configuring XBMCLive” points to the wrong link, should be:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Configuring_XBMC_Live
amended the typos and the erratic link, tks for notifying.
As per the eepc issue, pls discuss it in the forums, others may be of some help.
Hi!
This release works fine on Toshiba notebook: Core2Duo 1,83 GHz, 1 GB ram, NVidia Gef GO 7600, Realtek Soundcard.
Thank you very much!
When will you do a version what can automatically choose your videocard type?
How can I add drivers for it? (USB wireless Keyboard-Mouse, Imon IR Recevier, Wireless Lan Card, Other Sound Card, etc.)
Would it not be better to base it on Moblin V2 Core?
Newer Linux Kernel and very fast boot time be great!
Moblin V2 is fedora based, while TeamXBMC has chosen Ubuntu as development platform.
The only huge different between Ubuntu and Fedora for XBMC Live is that Fedora (and thus Moblin) uses the newest kernel and latest third-party packages/libraries so it i always more up-to-date than Ubuntu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin
I think that Moblin would be a perfect fit for XBMC Live as is has all the same goals as you have with XBMC Live, that is just-enough-OS to run XBMC Live (and really no other applications) and its focus is on a fast-booting and design to run on embedded computers (including set-top-boxes) where low power consumption and low cost are key considerations.
I suggest that you try out Moblin for XBMC Live, but strip away Hildon application framework, and the Moblin UI Framework: screen interface and its underlying GTK-based framework as XBMC Live does not need that, the same goes with Helix or GStreamer multimedia frameworks, just uninstall them before packaging XBMC Live so you don’t waste space with stuff that is not used.