Xbian 1.0 Alpha 5 download location

[killerbrain]

(26th Mar, 2014 01:52 PM)mk01 Wrote:  are you sure with the config.txt?

as RaspBMC is officially stating that XBian feels better/faster because it's higher default clocking. but from this it looks like RaspBMC is running important clock at 25% faster.

but unimportant for that case - if you don't want to match clocks at the beginning. for start change your XBian cmdline.txt to this:

Code:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 quiet sdhci-bcm2708.enable_llm=1 dwc_otg.microframe_schedule=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable=0 dwc_otg.fiq_split_enable=0 dwc_otg.trans_backoff=3000 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootflags=subvol=root/@,autodefrag,compress=lzo rootfstype=btrfs rootwait logo.nologo quiet noswap  mod_scsi.scan=sync partswap startevent=mountall splash nohdparm --startup-event mountall

for avoiding CEC updates there is much better approach in putting specific package on hold. then others will be updated automatically, CEC never.
you definitely have to update kernel & specially firmware. otherwise the test is useless.

BTW: core clock of 375 to Xbian's 270 is like comparing two different machines. coreclock specifically affects response times.

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but if you are not afraid of a bit manual action, you can just match RaspBMC firmware & kernel by copying

Code:

/boot/start_x.elf -> /boot/start.elf
/boot/fixup_x.dat -> /boot/fixup.dat
/boot/bootcode.bin ->
/boot/kernel.img ->
/lib/modules/3.10.24 ->
/opt/ ->

then still without reboot run on XBian

Code:

sudo xbian-update-initramfs

Thanks mk01 for your reply. Please find my replies below.
Regarding the raspbmc config.txt, its the default one. I havent tinkered with over clocking settings on raspbmc as I never faced any issues.

Yes I also agree that considering the xbian is running at a lower speed, the performance and bootup of xbian is faster when compared to raspbmc interms of xbmc usage. However if I install gcc(as part of installing PlayDVD addon) on xbian, then xbian slogs where as raspbmc i dont feel any difference at all. may be its due to the higher core freq setting in raspbmc as you mentioned.

I will try updating the Xbian cmdline.txt to the one which you suggested after updating the firmware and kernel. Pardon my ignorance on linux, could you please let me know how to keep the CEC package to the same version while doing a apt-get dist-upgrade?

If the above doesnt work, I will surely try the manual approach of using the raspbmc kernel and firmware to boot xbian.