bobo1on1 Wrote:

Code:

apt-cache search fontconfig | grep dev

That's how I find 99% of the dependencies for all the software I compile myself.

Quote:I do that and I get an invalid search operation error?

MGAINUK Wrote:Hi,
I think I am almost there... I have installed Ubuntu, Nvidia drivers, got it all through components, then installed Broadcom drivers, and finally compiled the latest version of xbmc Crystal hd branch.

I am able now to run xbmc, and it looks great. All of my standard definition files play perfectly, but the HD ones (MKVs) are a bit choppy, playing at less than 19 frames per second and with CPU at 100%.

The mkv files have a format proofile of [email protected], 8 reference frames and a bitrate of 6mb. I belive xbmc should play them with no problem, so I am guessing that for some reason it is just not using the card.

I moved the files to a local drive to remove network lag as a potential problem.

On xbmc I have chosen Broadcom as the renderer and pixel buffer is on.

I have checked and bcmFilePlayFw.bin is in /usr/lib/

UPDATE: after some more investigation and a few crashes on MKVs (yes, it now crashes on playing HD files), the log files says "Failed to open Broadcom Crystal HD". Is there an easy way of checking if the drivers are correctly installed?


Any pointers as to what to try/investigate next?

Many thanks

nerpissad Wrote:I thought that modifying boot_linux.sh would ensure that ubuntu gets automatically booted at startup?
that's not working for me. I inserted (as per instructions) the following:

Code:

mount /dev/sda4 /tmp/
kexec --load /tmp/vmlinuz --initrd=/tmp/initrd.img --command-line="root=/dev/sda4 initrd=initrd.img vga=normal vesa video=vesafb"
umount /tmp/
kexec -e

but do I have to manually do this each time the aTV boots with the USB stick?
it's more likely that I messed something up. I'm struggling to get everything setup as you can tell

Quote:atv-bootloader can a) search and find an existing grub menu.lst and auto-boot from it, b) search for a "boot_linux.sh" file and auto-execute it, and c) search for "patchstick.sh" and auto-execute it. The initrd "boot_linux.sh" script currently search sdb then rest of the disk devices (this will be changed in the future once the real boot device can be recovered from the device tree passed by boot.efi). This procedure allows atv-bootloader to auto-boot a linux install or be extended for other uses. This is controlled by a "Kernel Flag" string param in com.apple.Boot.plist and has the following definitions
#search for mb_boot_tv, grub and syslinux/ioslinux config --auto boot default
"atv-boot=auto"

#search for a "boot_linux.sh" file and execute it.
"atv_boot=manual"

#search for a "patchstick.sh" file and execute it.
"atv_boot=patchstick"

#default is to drop to a login prompt (user=root, password=root)

davilla Wrote:Run bcm_link_run.sh after boot. The driver, while loading at boot, it not in the proper state.

nerpissad Wrote:thanks for helping out, davilla.
you see, I found out that the com.apple.Boot.plist should be located on the OSBoot partition, but I don't know how to get to it?
I tried mounting /dev/sda1 onto /tmp/ (which is what I thought should be the way to access partitions??) and cd to it, but I get this:
# mount /dev/sda1
mount: can't find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab

some more general info:
# parted -s /dev/sda print
Model: ATA FUJITSU MHW2040A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 20.5kB 25.0MB 25.0MB fat32 primary boot
2 25.0MB 50.0MB 25.0MB hfs+ primary atvrecv
3 50.0MB 75.0MB 25.0MB hfs+ primary
4 75.0MB 18.9GB 18.8GB ext3 primary boot
5 18.9GB 20.0GB 1100MB linux-swap primary

i5Js Wrote:Hello everybody

First of all, my appologize of my english, i'm from spain, and congratulations about this work (XBMC + crystalhd).

I've installed on my appletv ubuntu 8.04 and compiled the last version of xbmc (XBMC PRE-10.5 r26027). I'm having many problems playing mkvs using Crystal HD as render method. There are a lot of dropping frames: this is th out of the debug:

What's wrong? This is the out of lspci:

Code:

02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 1612 (rev 01)

May be the card is defective?

Regards from spain.