Quote:Running on Linux 64-bit (SteamOS GNU/Linux 1.0 (alchemist), 3.10-3-amd64 x86_64)

(2014-06-11, 03:00)jazz1138t Wrote: 2.) When a wireless XBOX360 controller goes to sleep. XBMC will not register it's presence when you wake it back up so you have to revert to using the keyboard. It would also be nice if we could make under input "use joystiks" a default option for this version of XBMC.

(2014-06-11, 23:55)korb3nx Wrote: Hi Guys

I was in the process of installing XBMC on a fresh steamOS install, and it says I have broken dependencies :

Code:

desktop@ikasteam:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:13.1~git20140609.0800-f2acae7-0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:13.1~git20140609.0800-f2acae7-0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I did a :

Code:

desktop@ikasteam:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

How do I go through that ?

(2014-06-12, 04:08)teeedubb Wrote: @wsnipex (or any devs involved with this) I just remembered I have a spare code for civ5 + some dlc that I'll donate to celebrate this and civ5 on linux. If anyone has a use for this let me know and I can pm you the codes.

(2014-06-17, 12:55)AsavarTzeth Wrote: This is a fault in the apt pinning preferences. XBMC requires a newer version of libtag1c2a than is provided by SteamOS Alchemist. To fix this without risking unnecessary breakage with replaced core packages use the following preferences file instead:

Package: *
Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: libtag1c2a
Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org
Pin-Priority: 900

(2014-06-11, 03:00)jazz1138t Wrote: Great work guys, this is going to save me a heap of time. Previously I was compiling my own and using the wheezy apt mirror for xbmc build deps.

Unfortunately like the version I have been compiling and using for the last few months there are a few things still to work out:

1.) "Adjust display refresh rate to match video" does not work when you run XBMC under the steam user (Big Picture Mode). Presumably the steamos compositor is blocking this. This results in a stutter on long panning shots on most TV's. To get around this I have replaced the gnome.desktop xsession with the XBMC.session.

2.) When a wireless XBOX360 controller goes to sleep. XBMC will not register it's presence when you wake it back up so you have to revert to using the keyboard. It would also be nice if we could make under input "use joystiks" a default option for this version of XBMC.

3.) To get passthrough (AC3,DTS) audio to work I must add the line 'pactl set-sink-formats 0 "pcm; ac3-iec61937; dts-iec61937; eac3-iec61937"' to the paulseadio section of xbmc-standalone. This is probably just me as BPM refuses to apply these settings after reboot probably because both my Nvidia card's use the second sink for HDMI output instead of the first.

Also a note to those who use an HDMI amp and wish to passthrough Dolby/DTS streams to it. Make sure that in the SteamOS audio settings you have it set to "HDMI Stereo" and in XBMC set your audio settings to "HDMI 2.0" Only then can you enable passthrough. Seems counter-intuitive I know.

Cheers,

Jarrad.