XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon Beta1!

April 24th, 2009 lcapriotti

Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon b1

As in the previous releases I need to anticipate that NVIDIA and ATI/AMD users may have to struggle to have a working setup, but that’s a limitation of the restricted drivers not being tolerant interms of configuration files. Les’t s hope that this new release will allow an higher number of success stories.

Details about the release:

  • Based on Ubuntu Jaunty
  • NVIDIA drivers: 180.44 (VDPAU included)
  • ATI/AMD drivers: Catalyst 9.4
  • 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.
  • New boot script automatically increasing the system audio volume

Finally, the XBMC repositories sources are already configured and the cool script “Aptitude” is included, so updating XBMC to follow the new releases will hopefully be easy – check your disk space!

  1. Dan Dar3
    April 24th, 2009 at 21:53 | #1
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    Thanks a lot guys, good work!

  2. RabbitRunt
    April 25th, 2009 at 08:17 | #2
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    Any chance that you could include S3 Graphics drivers for their new Chrome 500 Series?
    http://www.s3graphics.com/en/drivers/download_product_drivers_detail.aspx?seriesId=4

    Another thing that would be cool is the new OpenGL 3D graphic driver for VirtualBox:
    http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

    VirtualBox 2.2.0 is first to support OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux, and its free!
    See their UserManual.pdf section 4.8 (page 70) on hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL).

  3. LiveAndKicking
    April 25th, 2009 at 09:52 | #3
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    Have you guys checked out this project to build a Live USB for Boxee and XBMC?
    http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=7766

    He seem to have very good experience in this field too so he could maybe help?

    Universal Live CD with both Boxee and XBMC could be a collaboration project?
    On boot give the choice to test either Boxee or XBMC, or install either or?

    Thanks for all your great work on XBMC Live, it’s my XBMC version of choice!
    I’m both a Boxee and a XBMC user but frankly I much prefer XBMC over Boxee.

  4. Maximilian
    April 27th, 2009 at 06:16 | #4
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    Does this version include the very latest ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)?

  5. xyphur
    April 29th, 2009 at 22:12 | #5
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    Same machine & USB key as I was running Atlantis on now claims after 3 attempts – completely wiping the key clean between each – that “This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again…”

    Board is an Intel D845GBV, P4 2.53GHz, 1GB DDR, 7300GT 512MB AGP. PNY 4GB Attache.

    No idea why this is happening. Putting 8.10 back on the key boots & runs just fine. Forgive me if these kinds of posts should be elsewhere.

  6. Mikekay
    April 29th, 2009 at 22:37 | #6
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    Hopefully you’ve added dual monitor support??? for win32

    please please please

    installing nowww

    either way

    Good job guys!!

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