jelleeelco Wrote:Scott,

I just copied and paste from a wiki (hence the dotted lines). Will post the link as soon as I can.

Personally I don't need audio over hdmi; updated drivers that (hopefully) fix my refresh rate issue is more important to me.

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Don't know what XBMC's WMV handling is like. If it's a VC-1 stream as you say, why not try demuxing and then muxing into an MKV container and see if it works?

m_lopez_h Wrote:Below is a compilation of several guides that worked for me. Goal is to make full use of all the space on your patchstick. Assumes you have a fully working patchstick with Pin's image on it.

2. Download Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download) and create an Ubuntu Live CD. Boot off the Ubuntu CD but don't install it to your HD. This will allow you to get Linux running on your PC.

3. Plug in your USB stick into the PC. Determine which drive it is (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc). You can check the drive by either running gparted (system >> administration >> gparted) and clicking through the drives to see how the drive letters are assigned or open up a shell and use the “mount” command to get a readout of mounted drives.

Open a shell
sudo swapoff –a (turns off the linux swap file so you can remove it)
sudo parted /dev/sdb/ ( in this example, the usb stick is sdb. Let parted fix any errors it finds)
unit s (convert to parted to sectors)
print (see output below for my particular drive)

(parted) unit s
(parted) p
Model: Lexar USB Flash Drive (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 15663104s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 40s 409639s 409600s fat32 EFI System Partition boot
2 409640s 460639s 51000s hfs+ Recovery atvrecv
3 460640s 5343452s 4882813s ext3
4 5343453s 6343453s 1000001s linux-swap

Note, in this example my usb stick is /dev/sdb. Disk size is 15663104 sectors. The drive has 4 partitions (sdb1, sdb2, sdb3, sdb4). The fourth partition (linux-swap) ends at sector 6343453. That means that anything beyond partition #4 is unused space. Print your version of this table out. You will need to refer to it for your specific drive

Next Steps: remove the linux-swap partition (sdb4), re-add the linux partition at the end of the drive (freeing up space between partition sdb3 and partition sdb4), change partition sdb3 from ext3 file system to to ext2, resize the ext2, change the ext2 back to ext3

Rm 4 (delete linux-swap)

Now, time for some math. In the example above, the linux-swap is 1000001 sectors long. Drive ends at sector 15663104. To put the linux-swap at the end of the usb drive we need to calc the new start and end sectors:
New Start Sector = 14663103 (15663104 (end of drive from example above) – 1000001 (original length of linux-swap))
New End Sector = 15663104 (end of drive)

In practice, the last usable sector on my drive was off by 34 sectors (found this out by trial and error…decrementing the end sector until parted was happy). So I ended up using:
Start Sector = 14663069
End Sector = 15663070

parted /dev/sdb mkpartfs primary linux-swap (re-add the linux-swap at the end of the drive. Parted will ask you to input the new start and end sectors. Use what you calc’d from example above)
quit (quit parted. The linux-swap should now be at the end of your drive)

sudo fsck -n /dev/sdb3 (check for no filesystem errors on sdb3)
sudo tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb3 (convert sdb3 into ext2 filesystem)

Back to the ubuntu desktop
You now need to umount partition #3 from your usb drive (/dev/sdb3). I couldn’t figure out how to do it using the command line, so I fired up gparted. From the ubuntu desktop (system >> administration >> gparted). Select your usb drive (refresh if necessary). Right click on partition #3 (sdb3) and select “unmount”.

Back to the terminal
sudo parted /dev/sdb
unit s (convert units to sectors)
print (print out partition table once again. Write down start sector of partition #3)
rm 3 (remove partition #3, we will add in next step)
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary (re-add partition #3 with larger partition. Start sector is what you wrote down from previous step. End sector = partition #4 (linux-swap) start sector - 1 = (15663070 – 1) = 15663069
quit (quit parted)
sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdb3 (force fs check)
sudo resize2fs /dev/sdb3 (resize the ext2)
sudo tune2fs -j /dev/sdb3 (change back to ext3)

Took me a looong time to figure everything out (I’m a linux noob). Hope this works for you.

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:You could cron your reboots

darkscout Wrote:Since I plan on just replacing my ATV's hard drive is there anyway I could do a DD to the hard drive then use gparted or something on another machine to expand the partition size to be the entire drive? (or maybe I'll just make a media partition).

Also, is there any way to do the Composite Out trick? A friend's house I go to regularly has a huge TV, but it's an old school projection without even a component in.

jelleeelco Wrote:Ummm... What does that mean?

fl0w Wrote:Hi,
Logitech Harmony works amazingly on Crystalbuntu.
I have one remaining question, can I dist-upgrade to Jaunty without any problem?
Thanks!

spacecraft Wrote:Hello all,

I think I might have a working HDMI configuration over new ALSA+NVIDIA drivers, but I have no way of testing it.

I started with pin's image, upgraded to xbmc beta 4, compiled r169 CrystalHD, compiled ALSA 1.0.23 (both driver and library, which seems to stop some of the ALSA errors in XBMC beta4), and installed the newest NVIDIA drivers available from their website.

I have no way of testing this setup, however. Alsamixer's aplay shows three devices, the third being the HDMI audio device. I can draw out a fairly extensive instruction set for anyone who would consider reproducing this setup. The installation of ALSA 1.0.23 was less than straight forward.

At any rate, I think I recall someone being curious about the possibility of audio over HDMI on newer builds...

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:alsamixer shows the three devices, the bug is that as soon as X11 starts sound stops working. Play a wav before X loads, it's fine, once it loads, it stops working, so there is a bug in recent NVIDIA drivers prohibiting ALSA to play out sound via HDMI

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:No. This breaks audio drivers. And you'd have to recompile the mach_kernel.

fl0w Wrote:Ok thanks, any idea about a release date for Crystalbuntu based on Jaunty?