Boxee on Aspire One with Ubuntu

[groovyrock]

I saw someone running Boxee on an EeePC and wanted to try it on my Acer Aspire One.

Confirmed that the same fix makes it useable:

go to /home/~your-user~/.boxee/UserData/guisettings.xml
Find the value for vsync and change it to 0

It doesn't run amazingly, but it is certainly useable. It streams ok, menus are good, and even the visualizers work.

For those of you that are saying "How'd you get Ubuntu on the Aspire One" I just followed this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

...and you can have boxee anywhere :)

UPDATE: I streamed some videos from Revision 3 and it worked great :D no lag at all. So far it seems like the only really laggy screen is the home screen.

[marcel]

hi groovyrock

well done thanks for the tutorial ..welcome to boxee...

[christianedward]

Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu 9.04
passes the openGL test
changed the Vsync to 0
Rebooted but it still crashes on startup, any ideas?
I have 1.5Gb ram and its the SSD version
Christian

[sdnick484]

I haven't tried the latest version, but the previous release worked fine under Intepid on my Acer One. This is on a SSD version which has 1.5GB of RAM too. I don't recall making the vsync change, however I did strip out PulseAudio.

[christianedward]

05/05/09 22:58:37#DEBUG#bxbgprocess.cpp:142(Start)#bg process initialized. 1 worker threads created.
05/05/09 22:58:37#DEBUG#bxcurl.cpp:63(Initialize)#curl initialized. version <7.18.2>

Running Boxee test...
* Enable platform firectoriesAnd the log goes to... /tmp/alison-
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 21
Current serial number in output stream: 22
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
I'll try removing Pulse Audio now

[christianedward]

An update or something on the same day had edited the xorg.conf which stopped Boxee and Totem movie player working, fortunately what ever it was backed up the xorg.conf first so I just reverted to the original one and Boxee works now, I should have tested it straight after installation! :)