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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: thopunk on March 25, 2007, 10:02:24 am

Title: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: thopunk on March 25, 2007, 10:02:24 am
So i FINALLY got this thing sort of up. But when it starts the media center i just get a gray screen and nothing else. also... in the setup of my video card, no matter what i changed the options too, it stayed the same. all i know is that it took me under an hour to get windows media center up, running, and recording. and that is with installing the OS. it has taken over two hours to just get this thing to almost start.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: mmeija on March 25, 2007, 06:11:33 pm
i'm stuck at this same point too
i chose dedicated so it would start mce before ubuntu, it just boots to a grey screen with a mouse cursor
then i can drop back to a terminal ctrl+alt+f1, login, run startx and ubuntu starts fine, launch mce from ubuntu andi end up at the grey screen of death

i've tried a bunch of things along the lines of my video card as well to no avail

i think i'm at like 4 hours now ;p
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: thopunk on March 25, 2007, 06:31:36 pm
out of the box my annus. false advertising lol.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: sportman on March 25, 2007, 06:42:41 pm
would this be a video driver problem/ xorg.pluto issue, or maybe a problem with the UI selected? anyone try using a different UI and see if they can get LinuxMCE up and running?
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: thopunk on March 25, 2007, 06:44:04 pm
how can i get to select a different UI? i cant get out of the grey screen, and i dont know how to get to the setup?
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: sportman on March 25, 2007, 06:49:23 pm
Did you make  Linux MCE boot default? or Did you let it go to Ubuntu first? Cause otherwise just restart the computer... another option might be control alt backspace, and then startx from terminal... worth a shot. As for getting to the setup again, I am not sure, i will search the forums, there is probably a way to initialize it from terminal.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: thopunk on March 25, 2007, 06:56:50 pm
lol, ya. i boot into unbuntu, for this reason exactly actually lol. if you find it, let me know. thanks.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: sportman on March 25, 2007, 07:02:34 pm
I am currently trying to change the vesa drivers to the ati ones, then i am going to see if that fixes the problem, i made a post about reconfiguring linuxmce I will see if there is a response
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: disruptor108 on March 25, 2007, 07:05:53 pm
Try going to http://IPofCORE on another machine on your network to setup some configuration stuff...
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: thopunk on March 25, 2007, 07:07:51 pm
lol. im done. thanks. back to windows mce for me. mythtv is a myth for me.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: mmeija on March 25, 2007, 07:11:55 pm
i made lmce boot first as i was saying earlier; i've found if you do this and it grey scsreens
ctrl+alt+f2 (a couple times even)
login
startx

and in my setup ubuntu boots fine soi'm sure it's very likely the ui choice is bad;
are there specifc tricks for the alpha transaprency to be done in the config?

im unable todo a video for now

my mistake didn't see the post on the web interface, i'm playing around in there now
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: ColumbusGEEK on March 25, 2007, 07:18:03 pm
If you change the UI I have noticed it takes some time to regenerrate the graphics.  be patient.

I rebooted once before thinking it was locked up.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: mmeija on March 25, 2007, 07:28:24 pm
definately seems the web interface and maybe /etc/X11/xorg.conf.pluto are worth a look
can' say if i have it workin yet as i'm remote ;|
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: sportman on March 25, 2007, 07:59:13 pm
where in the web interface can i change the UI settings on the core machine?
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: vetzak on March 25, 2007, 10:52:11 pm
I had the GSOD too and could not get into the webadmin.
After installing the nvidia driver (ATI-driver for ATI-card owners) and rebooting i could log in.

greetz and hope this helps
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: mmeija on March 25, 2007, 11:33:02 pm
where in the web interface can i change the UI settings on the core machine?

in the left pane under media directors
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: mmeija on March 26, 2007, 12:08:18 am
I've gotit going now.. i think installing linux-restricted-modules helped along with adjusting the driver setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.pluto
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: webpaul1 on March 26, 2007, 03:24:02 am
>> where in the web interface can i change the UI settings on the core machine?

wizard, devices, media directors, and wizard, devices, orbiters
Title: mine too i think
Post by: prussiap on March 26, 2007, 07:49:47 pm
i installed and everything from cd.. rebooted when it told me to.. and I have this plugged into my t.v. and nothing shows up on the t.v. it says unsupported mode and is blank.

I can login from the web.. the computer boots ubuntu just fine..i can ssh.

also i have a geforce 440mx installed and it looks like all the nvidia drivers are installed?

anything i can do from ssh..

when i go to the ip it says to create a new user.. but i click on that and nothing happens.. so no idea.. i'm stuck right now.. any help would be great :)

Thanks,
David
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: icantdothatdave on March 26, 2007, 10:05:12 pm
The gray screen with lines is a garbled image of the first pluto screen that should be appearing when LinuxMCE launches. I had this problem until I installed the fglrx drivers for my ATI card. Previously, I was just using the ati driver that installs with Edgy. After installing fglrx I was able to get LinuxMCE running, but UI2 maxes out my CPU 100% of the time. I have to use UI1. It's not as pretty, but it runs just fine. I was able to watch movies and mess around with setup.
Title: Re: Gray Screen and Nothing
Post by: cameljon on March 26, 2007, 10:12:59 pm
out of the box my annus. false advertising lol.

out of the box is going to be hardware dependent. I believe someone is working on a hardware compatibility list. If I can find the link again I'll post it here.

Until then make sure you get the correct video drivers and it should fix this problem.