Ubuntu Boxee not starting

**weliwarmer** · December 15th, 2010, 07:27 AM

Hi,

I have an old laptop and have installed Boxee 0.9.22.13692.i486 on Ubuntu 10.10.

There is no GL support for the 9600 ATI card but videos are still running fine using mythtv or mplayer.

When running /opt/boxee/Boxee, the tmp log ends with

Code:

12:38:05 T:3077924736 M:800415744  NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer
12:38:05 T:3077924736 M:800415744  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
12:38:05 T:3077924736 M:800415744  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/sources.xml
12:38:05 T:3077924736 M:800415744    INFO: GL: Maximum texture width: 32768
12:38:06 T:3077924736 M:799764480    INFO: LIRC device not found
12:38:06 T:3077924736 M:799690752   FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init rendering system

Would someone with more knowledge than me please help me start Boxee please?

Thanks,
Tim

**Silverlock** · December 15th, 2010, 10:32 AM

I'd start with looking at the output of 'glxinfo|head -20'.

**weliwarmer** · December 15th, 2010, 03:47 PM

Code:

$ glxinfo|head -20
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

I gather that means my old laptop is not good enough to run Boxee?

**Silverlock** · December 15th, 2010, 03:54 PM

Were you running that from an ssh shell, or from a terminal right on the desktop? Certainly looks odd if it was the latter.

**raghu1111** · December 15th, 2010, 06:05 PM

I have the same issue, reported in http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=24005 (I am using intel IGP)

Silverlock, I posted 'glxinfo | head -20' over there. could you take a look?

OP, you could attach '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' here so that there is more info on graphics configuration.

**flammenwurfer** · December 20th, 2010, 09:52 PM

I am getting the same issue. I'm on a nettop with Nvidia ION graphics.

**yunusa** · December 28th, 2010, 07:39 PM

I am running Boxee box on Ubuntu 10.10 and it crashes on startup. Was working fine initially? I am not sure what is the problem now. Any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if any info is needed.