[Openchrome-users] XBMC compatible with OpenChrome?

[Xavier Bachelot]

Jon wrote:
> I have an MSI motherboard with a K8M800 on-board video chipset.  I've been
> trying to get XBMC running but with OpenGL support enabled but the main
> window shows up as a solid white box with the outline of yellow text for
> the lower scroll bar.  I tried the Ubuntu (hardy) binaries and compiling
> XBMC from SVN.  If I compile XBMC with '--disable-gl' the dialogs look
> fine but it's pretty slow and CPU intensive.
> 
> Running glxgears produces results around 350 frames per second.  I'm
> running the OpenChrome from SVN, rev. 696.
> 
> Has anyone been able to get XBMC working properly with OpenGL rendering
> and the 'openchrome' xorg driver?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
> P.S. I'll recompile XBMC with OpenGL support to get a screen shot if
> necessary.
> 
3D support is known to be flaky for Unichrome chips. There's nothing
much that can be done at the moment, but a major enhancement/rewrite of
the unichrome DRI driver is on its way.

Regards,
Xavier