After running an upgrade 'sudo apt-get ugrade' and 'sudo apt-get install xbmc' to get my system up to date (to the latest SVN) I started getting the following error:

XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
Install an appropriate graphics driver.
Please consult XBMC Wiki for supported hardware
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Supported_hardware

The first time I had this happen to me, I spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get my system back up... but by 3 am I gave up. The next day, I reran the XBMC Live installer and got my system back up. This time, I didn't want to have to redo all the changes I made, so I wanted to fix things. I did a bit of research and this time I tried to directly install the nvidia drivers right away before mucking around with my configuration.

I originally tried the following which did NOT work for me:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-185-kernel-source nvidia-glx-185 nvidia-settings mesa-utils

Then reboot with 'sudo reboot', but like I said it didn't fix my issue... so I ran the NVIDIA installer directly as noted in this thread:

sudo apt-get remove xbmc-live
sudo nvidia-installer --update -a -s -f
sudo apt-get install xbmc-live
sudo reboot

After a reboot, my system came back up and worked like a champ with the latest version of XBMC (and the NVIDIA drivers) installed.

Comments (6)

Jim said:

	... How do I get back to a command line to enter these commands once I'm getting this error?
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March 16, 2010
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Jim said:

	... Got to command line from the recovery mode boot option, but these commands still leave me with the error.
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March 16, 2010
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rsteven said:

	... in XBMC-live you can stop the window manager in the terminal with: 'sudo /etc/init.d/x11-common stop' After that the nvidia driver can be installed: 'sudo nvidia-installer --update -a -s -f'
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June 13, 2010
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Jens Jensen said:

	Thanks a lot Thanks a lot. You just saved my ass Have a nice day. Best regards, Jens
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