2011/10/18 Ramon Hofer <[email protected]> > Hi all > > This is probably an easy question (if one knows the answer). > > I tried setting up a Shuttle XS35GTV2 as an XBMC frontend following this > guide: > http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu > > Unfortunately the (any) Ubuntu installer can't set up the NIC. > The Debian installer has no problem so I went for Debian. > Unfortunately installing xbmc standalone is a bit harder. > > I was able to install xorg, xbmc (from the multimedia repos) and the > nvidia driver, created the xorg.conf, the xbmc user and could start xbmc > with > > # xinit xbmc-standalone > > Now I'm trying to set up xbmc to start automatically on boot. I found > this post > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux > > I changed the init.d script according to my paths. Here it is: > http://pastebin.com/fQSJ4xJt > > When I now reboot XBMC tells me: > "XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. Install an appropriate > graphics driver..." >
It's message from /usr/share/xbmc/FEH.py script. If you are sure that you have 3D accelaration, you can add "--no-test" to init script or modify FEH.py script to omit that test. Good luck Mariusz Sielicki

