Tag: xbmc
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XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering
Over the weekend I ran updates on my Ubuntu HTPC, and upon reboot it came up with the following message “XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering”. It turns out that when I ran the updates it also updated fglrx, the graphics driver to run the AMD chip in my machine. This update dropped support (or so…
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Fullscreen Firefox with XBMC
At home I run a custom built HTPC running Ubuntu with XBMC as the main interface. So that the machine boots into XBMC directly, and to avoid any superfluous applications running, I use XBMC directly as the user-session. Using the Advanced Launcher plugin I was able to launch firefox, but it always launched in what…