I noticed that there were new ATI drivers that got installed as part of my Synaptic update last evening. After rebooting the machine this morning, thought I would xbmc another try. Have a new error message (See log below) saying unable to locate a libcrystalhd file. Looked for the error over on the xbmc site and it seems to indicate a driver problem.
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729281024 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: Linux (PCLinuxOS, 2.6.32.11-pclos2.pae i686). Built on Feb 22 2011 (SVN:33648)
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/xbmc
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/lp/.xbmc/userdata
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/lp/.xbmc
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/lp/.xbmc/temp
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/lp/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
06:41:19 T:3022018352 M:3729264640 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:41:20 T:3022018352 M:3729539072 NOTICE: Setup SDL
06:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728556032 NOTICE: load settings...
06:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728531456 ERROR: Unable to load libcrystalhd.so.2, reason: libcrystalhd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
06:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728531456 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
06:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728531456 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
06:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728531456 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
06:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728531456 NOTICE: Checking resolution 12
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728531456 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: No advancedsettings.xml to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
10:41:21 T:3022018352 M:3728683008 NOTICE: Loading media sources from special://masterprofile/sources.xml
10:41:22 T:3022018352 M:3726757888 ERROR: InitRenderSystem() glewInit returned 1: Missing GL version
10:41:22 T:3022018352 M:3726757888 FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init rendering system