Reacties op: Boxee on Ubuntu Lucid Minimal on Asrock ION 330

Door: Diego Mendonça

Diego Mendonça — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:52:28 +0000

Hi there!

Thanks for yours answers, i’ve been a little busy this days, but on the weekend i’ll try it! after this i would post something in here!

Thanks a lot for help me out!

Door: Klaas Cuvelier

Klaas Cuvelier — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:13 +0000

I don’t know if I will be able to help you with your problems, but I’ll try.

So for the first problem, the graphics card,
it’s probably a bad driver (or conflicting stuff) or bad configuration, maybe you’ll find something useful in error logs (/var/log)?
I’ve had a similar problem when I was messing around with the drivers for my Ion, I just reinstalled Ubuntu (it’s minimal it doesn’t take long), and reinstalled the latest drivers, which in that case worked.
If that doesn’t work, I suggest you try google, see if there are similar cases like yours (with same card and such), or you just try the default driver?

Second problem, my guess is, it’s because X-server isn’t started?
If so, fix it by fixing your graphical problem first, and then make sure boxee start when x-server starts (like described in the guide).

I hope this helps you a bit further.
Good luck!

Door: Diego Mendonça

Diego Mendonça — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:46:28 +0000

adicionally if i hit /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop to try to run boxee manually i get this error http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5537/screenshot20100812at336.png
been honest i dont really know much about linux but i cannot understand this error

Door: Diego Mendonça

Diego Mendonça — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:39:06 +0000

I’ve tried the tip that you told on your comment, and it did work i have a different hardware than yours, but its a nvidia graphics in my case GF 7050 onboard, so i did change the driver to my graphic card version, after i reboot i get a black screen with a blinking underline (“_”), i can only access my installation over SSH now, do you think that you can help me out?
I almost givin up linux as far as i’m trying to make it work for a month with no success

Door: Diego Mendonça

Diego Mendonça — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:19:30 +0000

Thanks for your reply! i’ll try to do it and later on i’ll be answer here!

Door: Klaas Cuvelier

Klaas Cuvelier — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:36:00 +0000

Ow, that’s right. I forgot to mention it in my post.
In Ubuntu Lucid, /etc/event.d doesn’t exist anymore, you have to put your files in /etc/init.
So, create (or edit, if already exists) the file tty1 in /etc/init.

This is what mine says:

boxee@mediacenter:/etc/init$ cat tty1.conf

# tty1 – getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn
#exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
exec /bin/login -f boxee /dev/tty1 2>&1

Door: Diego Mendonça

Diego Mendonça — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:43:00 +0000

Hello
I’ve been trying to install fallowing the tutorial that you indicated, but i got problems at this part

sudo vi /etc/event.d/tty1

I’m using Lucid but the problem is that there isn’t this folder ‘event.d’ or even this file tty1, could you give me some help?