Problems with LinuxMCE

[ibanez697]

The installation worked great.  I'm having problems actually using LinuxMCE.  I'm getting horrible quality and it's lagging to the point where it is unusable.  Anything I missed or don't know about?

System Specs:
Sony Vaio w/Intel 915G
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
1 Gig of Ram
ATI X700 Pro PCI-E

[sharlee_angelo]

ca you be more specific?

[ibanez697]

I forgot to mention that after the installation of LinuxMCE I get the error "Failed to initialize HAL" when logging on Ubuntu.  Which is probably the source of all my problems, but I don't get the error anymore.  I'll try to get as specific as I can get.  When I start up LinuxMCE I get the Welcome screen that tells me "This is a new Orbiter...".  The text looks ok on my TV, but not so good on my computer screen.  When I try to move the mouse it blinks on and off, but I can see it just good enough to get to the main menu.  Then in the main menu I can hardly read the text, the screen is black, and when I move the mouse it blinks and so does the screen.  When I use Ubuntu everything works fine. It's impossible to configure it unless I do it through a web browser.  At that, I don't really see anything to configure that would fix the problem.  I only looked at it for a little while though.  Any thoughts on what I'm missing?

[sharlee_angelo]

maybe you didn't selected the best resolution or refresh. what UI did you choose?

[ibanez697]

That was it I just changed it from UI2 without Alpha to UI1.  Thanks

[sharlee_angelo]

what video card do you have? it seems that it cannot support UI2.

[ibanez697]

ATI Radeon X700 PCI-E

[anno]

That was it I just changed it from UI2 without Alpha to UI1.  Thanks

Where can I changethe UI?

[jerry finn]

You can change the UI (and the resolution settings also) from the web admin page (which you can access by typing your core's IP in a browser). In the media directors section, scroll down and you will see a 'UI' drop-down.