[XBMC4Ever]

How many others would be interested in an appletv specific arch (or ubuntu if arch not possible) linux minimal + xbmc + crystalhd/bcm image (or script/howto) ?

absolute minimal linux server supporting;
boot directly to xbmc, no x desktop etc
latest crystalhd drivers/lib/etc
working hdmi audio (nv 100/alsa 1.0.21)
evinyatar's atvclient
ssh/smb services
any necessary tweaks/optimizations (cpufreq, etc)
ability to update and compile from svn with all necessary dependancies
support both usb stick and internal drive installation

And would anyone have the expertise, time and patience to support and perfect it?

TeknoJnky !!!

I am SO all over that.
Have you had a chance to create such a solution yet ?

Many thanks in advance,

XBMC4Ever

[TeknoJnky]

Nope read it carefully, it was a request for a solution, not an offer. I wasn't able to get my own attempts working right, which is why I posted the above.

[davilla]

Is there any new version builds for this branch?the official builds need glibc 2.8 so can not run under ubuntu 8.04.

I run svn trunk under ubuntu 8.04 and built it there too

[tintamarre]

Sorry for the noob question but if I directly copy xbmc_crystalhd_r25841_hardy.img.bz2 (with the command above) to the internal harddrive of my AppleTV, will it work / boot ?

Thanks ...

[junkie]

Sorry, yes, there's a ton of fat I could've trimmed out there. You've got a complete Ubuntu desktop install complete with OpenOffice & GIMP.

Anyone know the login credentials for ubuntu? xbmc/xbmc, frontrow/frontrow, root/root, tried all of them, none work. can't log in to ubuntu.

thanks,

[tintamarre]

It's xbmc/xbmc over ssh.

[junkie]

It's xbmc/xbmc over ssh.

ok, ssh'd in and created another user which logged in fine, but it's painfully slow from my usb key, it's a 4gb variant does it need to be bigger? it's taking like minutes to open menus and whatnot.

thanks,

[tintamarre]

Here, performances of my ATV with the USB Linux stick are pretty good.

I'm with a 4Gb SanDisk Extreme Contour Cruzer (the one with high bandwidth rate).

XBMC runs as fast as on the native OS on HD and I still have 600Mb free on it.

[abko]

I am still struggling to install a recent nightly build of XBMC with the USB Live version from this thread. I also run into the dependency on GLIBC_2.8 from newer XBMC builds. I have no experience with SVN or so. Could someone advise on how to get GLIBC updated to a version that works with recent XBMC releases?
Any hints are much appreciated! Thanks to everyone for the great work on XBMC, CrystalHD support and ATV support !!

[ngok]

I run svn trunk under ubuntu 8.04 and built it there too

I tried to build svn trunk under 8.04 but run into some problem.

below is what I did.
1)Setup a virtual machine with virtual box,give it 8G hdd and 512M ram.
2)Install ubuntu 8.04 on it.
3)Update 8.04 to newest stats.
4)install subversion.
5)check out recent source of xbmc.
6)install all the pakages mentioned in README.ubuntu and README.linux
7)run ./bootstrap
8)run ./configuru

the configuru process finished but it complains not finding header files for crystalhd and will not turn crystalhd support on.
I download the official crystalhd driver pack from broadcom,unzip it,and copy files from include folder into /usr/include,but it doesn't solve the problem.

I searched this forum and googled but can't find a guide tells how to compile svn with crystalhd support using the official driver pack.

can someone point me a way?
or I 'd better tried it on ubuntu karmic?

[Kali]

get the svn code from http://code.google.com/p/crystalhd-for-osx/

cd linux_lib/libcrystalhd
make && make install

cd driver/linux
autoconf
./configure
make && make install
modprobe crystalhd

recompile xbmc svn

[ngok]

Thanks a bunch,that solves the puzzle.
compile started,hope it goes well.

[ngok]

I got r27099 compiled and working great here,all my 720p played smoothly.
1080p have some issue but I can stand that.720p is enough for me.
thanks to davilla,thanks to Kali,thanks to all the people who helped this project.

[Kali]

ngok, today is arrived my crystalhd and i have got some problem with some 1080p ( i don't have 720p movie )

but after reading all the crystalhd-for-osx project in the notes is recommended to use the http://git.wilsonet.com/crystalhd.git/ for linux

git clone git://git.wilsonet.com/crystalhd.git

[ngok]

The git source provides only driver,not xbmc.
I think the 1080p issue is more like a xbmc issue rather than a driver issue.
besides,the linux driver+xbmc is somehow better than the windows driver+MPC.I have some movies not play well in windows but have no problem in linux.