Help plz Dell D600

[gotspeed]

1.6 ghz 1 Gig of ram laptop

i have seen a few posts about turning vsync off and i cant find the setting to change it (new to ubuntu due to wifi card not working/being supported any more in xp sp3) but the user interface is godly slow. i have a mobility radeon 9000 and its pretty fast. it will play racing games around 40-50 fps but its choking on boxee. i would like to run it on the desktop (3.4ht with 2 gigs and a x1650 thats much faster)but dont want to run linux on both my systems being new to it and all. what needs to be tweaked and how do i tweak it.

[agentlame]

Here are the instructions for disabling vsync:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=635&postcount=2

[gotspeed]

i had found that folder but it doesnt have the guisettings.xml file in it, it has

advancedsettings.xml
keymap.xml
lircmap.xml
sources.xml.in.linux

its in the main file system/usr/boxee/UserData

there is a userdata and a UserData in the same folder both have the same files in them it looks like

[marcel]

hi gotspeed

welcome to boxee...

this directory is system/usr/boxee/UserData is the wrong location.

type in the terminal window :" cd ~/.boxee/UserData" and then edit the "vsync" and change its value to 0.

please note that mobility radeon 9000 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units is 6 years old (ogl 1.4) so this might be causing the problem...

[gotspeed]

k i got the termal window to say:
>cd ~/.boxee/userdata/
>
now what? how do i open the file to edit it?

[agentlame]

OK, open the file browser (Nautilus)
In the View menu, check show hidden files.
Browse to your home folder, in it should be a folder named .boxee.

Proceed from there.

If you have trouble, I'm agentlame on AIM & Twitter (and just about any other service you can think of). IM me and I am more than happy to walk you trough any issues you might have.

[marcel]

thanks agentlame.
@gotspeed you have a few options follow agentlame instructions or (only if you know how to vi and save the file)from cd ~/.boxee/UserData ...you can vi guisettings.xml make the changes and save it or you can go from our home folder (select view>show hidden files) >.boxee>UserData and then use a editor to open the guisettings.xml file to make the changes..


If you are still having problems changing the file then pm your guisettings.xml and i will make the changes for you ..:)

[gotspeed]

ok i got it changed it was set to 2. it helpped speed it up but i think my cpu is going to be the bottle neck....maybe the gfx drivers?

the other thing i am getting a lot is white squares for text on titles and other stuff. right now on the top left it has the boxee logo then a few boxes all different sizes.

i need to go i will post screen shots of it later today

[marcel]

remember this is an old card so it might cause lots of different problem..

[gotspeed]

k i got to the point were i could play a video and and the play back is nice and smooth. when you go to windowed mode all the boxes go to normal text. any idea why full screen wouldn't show the text and just boxes?

[marcel]

very wierd are you using a special charset or language setting ...it could also be a problem with the mobility radeon 9000 as i stated previously

[gotspeed]

i found out that it uses the intel 855 chipset is there any known problem with it? could it just be some other setting some where that is out of whack?

Edit: its a normal english ubuntu install on a 40 gig hard drive and its got 10+ gigs free

[d600boxee]

With a little work, I was able to get Boxee to work on the D600.

D600, 1.4ghz and 512mb

1. Ubuntu 8.04 install with all defaults
2. Install Boxee as described in the download area of boxee.com
3. Fix wireless with this thread: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2008-October/002040.html
4. Set screen resolution to 800 by 600, this fixes off font issues and makes it more responsive.
5. Disable vsync as described in this thread to speed up things: type in the terminal window :" cd ~/.boxee/UserData" and then edit the "vsync" and change its value to 0.

launch Boxee.

I found that using the arrow keys was more responsive than the mouse.

On another forum there was a post on upgrading the video driver. I am looking into it to increase speed.

[xandrake]

I have the same hardware running Jaunty and a similar issue (Dell D600 - radeon 9000, etc). When I run boxee it pops up a black screen and eventually disappears. When executed from CLI I get the following:

xandrake@boxee:/opt/boxee$ /opt/boxee/Boxee
01/06/09 00:48:10#DEBUG#bxbgprocess.cpp:142(Start)#bg process initialized. 1 worker threads created.
01/06/09 00:48:10#DEBUG#bxcurl.cpp:63(Initialize)#curl initialized. version <7.18.2>

Running Boxee test...
* Enable platform firectoriesAnd the log goes to... /tmp/xandrake-
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 28
Current serial number in output stream: 29
Boxee: asked to stop
Boxee: already stopped
BXBGProcess, Resolver Audio Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x8fa38e0
BXBGProcess, Resolver Video Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x8fa3874
BXBGProcess, , asked to stop, this = 0x8fa339c
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8f0e7e4
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8f0e7e4
xandrake@boxee:/opt/boxee$


I have checked 2D-3D settings as Marcel suggested. vsync set to 0, compix set to no effects....still no go.

Any ideas?