Update (22/06/09)
On requests I have now written down how you can modify Moblin into a XBMC friendly system for the ION boards and other similar systems with nVidia graphics. I've also created a temporary web page containing information, the HOWTO and script files.
http://beta.nextdesign.info/mcd/
http://beta.nextdesign.info/mcd/doc/
(Web server up again!)
Script repo @ GitHub
http://github.com/estyx/mcd-scripts/tree/master
More to come..
(PS: If there's anything I missed, written wrong or something in the doc, please notify me)
(PPS: I timed it from GRUB to the welcome menu in XBMC, 24 sec)
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[old]During last week I was fiddling with the idea of combining the fast-booting Moblin project with XBMC to create the "ultimate" linux media center distro. The idea was especially appealing concidering Zotac just released a new Mini-ITX mainboard series with the nVidia ION chipset.
So I sat down and played around with the development package of Moblin and started the hassle with compiling Xorg so that I could make the nVidia binary drivers to work. After struggling a long time with compiling it, I had to resort to compile the bleeding edge version from the git repo. Success! After that it didnt take me long to make the nVidia driver up and running, and at the end a fully working XBMC!
I even captured a short video showing the process from GRUB to playing a video in XBMC. There's probably plenty of places to cut down startup time, and I will get started on that as soon as I get a clean, minimal version up and running.
But all in all I'm pretty satisfied with the result considering the work effort, my goal was to have a working version first before making any more changes to the system. So what do you guys think about the project? Moblin is pretty fast so I think it has great potential.
(Just as a note; I'm focusing on building this to target machines with ION-chips or other nVidia graphic chips with VDPAU support, more info will be provided as I progress towards a usable beta for all of you who are interested to test)[/old]
On requests I have now written down how you can modify Moblin into a XBMC friendly system for the ION boards and other similar systems with nVidia graphics. I've also created a temporary web page containing information, the HOWTO and script files.
http://beta.nextdesign.info/mcd/
http://beta.nextdesign.info/mcd/doc/
(Web server up again!)
Script repo @ GitHub
http://github.com/estyx/mcd-scripts/tree/master
More to come..
(PS: If there's anything I missed, written wrong or something in the doc, please notify me)
(PPS: I timed it from GRUB to the welcome menu in XBMC, 24 sec)
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[old]During last week I was fiddling with the idea of combining the fast-booting Moblin project with XBMC to create the "ultimate" linux media center distro. The idea was especially appealing concidering Zotac just released a new Mini-ITX mainboard series with the nVidia ION chipset.
So I sat down and played around with the development package of Moblin and started the hassle with compiling Xorg so that I could make the nVidia binary drivers to work. After struggling a long time with compiling it, I had to resort to compile the bleeding edge version from the git repo. Success! After that it didnt take me long to make the nVidia driver up and running, and at the end a fully working XBMC!
I even captured a short video showing the process from GRUB to playing a video in XBMC. There's probably plenty of places to cut down startup time, and I will get started on that as soon as I get a clean, minimal version up and running.
But all in all I'm pretty satisfied with the result considering the work effort, my goal was to have a working version first before making any more changes to the system. So what do you guys think about the project? Moblin is pretty fast so I think it has great potential.
(Just as a note; I'm focusing on building this to target machines with ION-chips or other nVidia graphic chips with VDPAU support, more info will be provided as I progress towards a usable beta for all of you who are interested to test
)[/old]
