xbmc corrupt display

KAGY

Hi all,
tried to install xbmc on a debian htpc (running mythtv no probs combined front/back end). Tried both the stable and unstable version from dmo.org and both end up with corrupt display as in the screen shot. Only option to exit is to kill the process though ssh.
I'm sure that it's a resolution setting, but I can't figure it out.
Running on a Panasonic Viera with 720p resolution over HDMI.


Any pointers?

relevant section from guisettings.xml

<videoscreen>
        <guicalibration></guicalibration>
        <haslcd>false</haslcd>
        <resolution>-1</resolution>
        <screen>0</screen>
        <screenmode>DESKTOP</screenmode>
        <testpattern></testpattern>
        <vsync>3</vsync>
    </videoscreen>

    <window>
        <height>720</height>
        <width>1280</width>
    </window>
    <skinsettings />
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-Display-
Resolution        : 1280x720 pixels
Vendor        : The X.Org Foundation
Version        : 1.12.4
-Monitors-
Monitor 0        : 1280x720 pixels
-Extensions-
BIG-REQUESTS, Composite DAMAGEDOUBLE-BUFFERDPMSDRI2GLXGeneric Event ExtensionMIT-SCREEN-SAVERMIT-SHMRANDRRECORDRENDERSECURITYSGI-GLXSHAPESYNCX-ResourceXC-MISCXFIXESXFree86-DGAXFree86-VidModeExtensionXINERAMAXInputExtensionXKEYBOARDXTESTXVideoXVideo-MotionCompensation
-OpenGL-
Vendor        : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer        : Mesa DRI R600 (RS780 9616) 20090101  TCL DRI2
Version        : 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1
Direct Rendering        : Yes

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The native resolution of 720p Plasmas is usually 1024x768.

Have you tried XBMC forum for help?
http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=52

KAGY

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The native resolution of 720p Plasmas is usually 1024x768.

Have you tried XBMC forum for help?
http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=52

Thanks - basically I was told to downgrade drivers. I'll stick with mythtv - 0.27 is out now

pug_

Do you have a window manager installed you can use to see if it's a problem with XBMC or the underlying X windows setup?

If you're running mythtv then have you just installed XBMC on top of a mythbuntu install or something? if not then I'd suggest you give that a try as if it's running myth correctly then installing XBMC in parallel should be pretty straightforward.

Maybe try changing the window settings in guisettings.xml to the following too and see if it makes any difference. Once you're up and running you can mess around with different resolutions within the XBMC gui its self safer than through a change and hope for the best method of editing a txt file directly.

<window>
<height>480</height>
<width>720</width>
</window>

KAGY

Thanks for the advice. Im running myth TV on a Debian box. I've xbmc running on a RPI and an android tablet connecting to the myth Tv backend, so was installing it just for a look see.
So not a priority project, I'll check out your suggestion next time I'm messing about.