dark screen

[santiago79830]

After following the suggestions posted elsewhere on this forum about liblzol and libdirectfb-1.0-0, I was able to get boxee to install, using apt-get, under ubuntu 9.10. That's the good news.

The bad news is that, although boxee appears in the applications menu under sound and video, starting it produces a black screen. It stays black until I wiggle the mouse around, and hit a few random keys. At that point, the ubuntu screen comes back. There's no indication boxee ever ran.

Anyone have ideas?

[newcolour]

Is the output dumped on the log file?

You can find it in /tmp

Cheers,
S.

[shtmtin]

Can you point me to where in the forums it helped you with liblzol? I've searched for liblzol and this is the only post I can find.

I'm trying to install Boxee on Ubuntu 9.10 using apt-get.

[shtmtin]

After just typing in various things to see what would happen I was able to get Boxee installed by:

1. downloading it from the Boxee website,
2. running "sudo apt-get -f install", then
3. running "sudo dpkg --install boxee-xxx.deb"