Mxm Freezes On Matrix Screen, patched blue matrix Options

[kolohekid]

I installed version MXM09n1 with the ble matrix patch by removing the old xbe file and cache file and copying the new xbe over. I use evox as startup dash with a menu item to call MXM. It get's to the matrix init screen then just freezes. Previous version worked great, only upgraded cause I wanted the alpha-sort feature.

MXM.xml:

<Config>
<Main>
<DiscTitle>Media X Menu<//DiscTitle>
<DiscSubtitle> <//DiscSubtitle>
<Music>
<UseMusic>true<//UseMusic>
<Directory>f:dashMXMMusic<//Directory>
<Global>true<//Global>
<//Main>
<//Config>

Menu.xml

<Menu>

<Item>
<SortField>title<//SortField>
<AutoDir>F:games<//AutoDir>
<//Item>

<//Menu>

Xbox Ver 1.2
X2.1 Pro
xecuter 4977

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE

Sorry about the double post, the forum complained that it was too busy when I tries to post and said to try again and I did hence the double post. Anyway I got it to boot to safe mode and disabled background music which allowed me to get further but it sucks not having that. Also the autosort doens't seem to wrk and I basically cut and paste from post I found about that topic.

Ok... I copied this from the other thread (and deleted it), and the problem is obvious, and there is a workaround.... rip a track from an audio CD using M$ Dashboard's music manager, or add a track via the Soundtrack Editor.

I am working on a fix there. You must be using Devoid as a skin?

This post has been edited by BenJeremy: Jul 22 2003, 10:02 AM

[kolohekid]

I found another workaround, but am not quite sure which of these steps did it. I was using Advantage for my skin. I removed it from the root folder of MXM an placed it in a subfolder basically disabling it. I replaced my original MXM.xml file with the default one that you included in the rarball. I then removed the cache file and booted MXM. This got me as far as the safeboot menu. From there I disabled music and was able to boot normally. I then used the configure option to configure MXM to use sound and rebooted. This time it came up fine with sound playing! The audio files are the original ones I ripped and encoded on my pc. They are in a subfolder called Music within MXM's root folder. The Menu.xml remains the same but still doesn't alphasort. Even when I choose the sort option in the configure menu. Is the sort based on the games installation directories and would having white spaces in the directory names break the feature? I suppose I can test by removing the white spaces when I get home from work. BTW this board is getting real buggy, I tried to post and erred again.

[kolohekid]

Also, once everything booted up fine I moved the Advantage skin folder back and selected it in configuration. Seems to work OK, Any ideas on the sorting issue? BTW, your dash rocks and as soon as I get things just the way I like them it's gonna be my default dash.

[kolohekid]

BJ any insights onmy sorting problem? I do refresh the cache.

[nObedienz]

Here's the hard-way workaround

If MXM locks up on booting, reboot your xbox, choose boot normally.
I guess it works 100% unless something is wrong in your MXM.xml or something...

[kolohekid]

I solved the problem and know the cause. I had this in my MXM.xml,

<Music>
<Directory>C:Music</Directory>
<UseMusic>True</UseMusic>
<Global>True</Global>
<Random>True</Random>
</Music>

and at the same time had the Sound features in the Configure menu activated. I disabled sound while in safe mode which allowed me to boot. Went into sound options in Configure and turned it all off, reset the cache and rebooted. Came up fine and I have sound. Fixed my sort problems as well. Menu.xml below. MXM is now my default dash. Now I just ahave to find a skin similar to advantage but Blue.

<menu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>Games</Title>
<sortfield>title</sortfield>
<Item>
<AutoDir>F:games</AutoDir>
</Item>
<EndSort>Title</EndSort>
</SubMenu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>Game Emulators</Title>
<sortfield>title</sortfield>
<Item>
<AutoDir>F:appsEmulators</AutoDir>
</Item>
<EndSort>Title</EndSort>
</SubMenu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>Media Player</Title>
<Item>
<Title>XBMP</Title>
<Dir>F:appsXBMP</Dir>
<Exe>F:appsXBMPdefault.xbe</Exe>
</Item>
</Submenu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>File Managers</Title>
<sortfield>title</sortfield>
<Item>
<AutoDir>F:appsFile Managers</AutoDir>
</Item>
<EndSort>Title</EndSort>
</SubMenu>
<SubMenu>
<Title>Other Dashboards</Title>
<sortfield>title</sortfield>
<Item>
<AutoDir>F:dash</AutoDir>
<EndSort>Title</EndSort>
</Item>
</SubMenu>
</menu>

[BenJeremy]

The sound issues "should" be fixed in the next release. Hopefully I'll get some feedback on the latest "WIP" from beta testers.

I did test it, and found a couple of "rough spots" in the code that weren't checking for a track count before doing fun things like division and modulus... which will crash when trackcount is "0" - those spots have been cleaned up.