Manually installing CrystalHD driver/lib/firmware

ds129 · 2010-08-18 20:39

ds129 Wrote:In /Applications are the following:

Code:

.localized System Preferences.app Boxee.app XBMC.app

There is one extra file called .localized

Ok. I think the XBMC.app directory in /Users/frontrow/Applications is the wrong one to delete, cos the folders are all empty.

The one in /Applications actually contains files. I'll delete this one and see what happens.

Thanks. Smile

ds129 · 2010-08-18 20:42

davilla Wrote:ls -l please.

ls -l show following:

Code:

bash-2.05b# ls -l

total 8

-rw-rw-r--   1 root      admin       0 Oct  7  2006 .localized

drwxr-xr-x   4 frontrow  frontrow  136 Jun 16 03:37 Boxee.app

drwxrwxr-x   3 root      wheel     102 Dec  2  2006 System Preferences.app

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin      37 Aug 19 01:50 XBMC.app -> /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app

**davilla** · 2010-08-18 20:52

ds129 Wrote:ls -l show following:

Code:

bash-2.05b# ls -l total 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 0 Oct 7 2006 .localized drwxr-xr-x 4 frontrow frontrow 136 Jun 16 03:37 Boxee.app drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 2 2006 System Preferences.app lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 37 Aug 19 01:50 XBMC.app -> /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app

It's a symlink that points to the one in /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app

ds129 · 2010-08-18 20:58

davilla Wrote:It's a symlink that points to the one in /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app

Yup. Tried deleting again and reinstalling from launcher. It's still 32661. Argh!

To make sure that XBMC was indeed deleted, I tried launching XBMC after deleting. It says cannot find XBMC. So, it's definitely deleted.

It's 3am where I am. My eyes must be playing tricks on me. Smile

Riderzzz · 2010-08-18 21:13

ds129 Wrote:Yup. Tried deleting again and reinstalling from launcher. It's still 32661. Argh!

To make sure that XBMC was indeed deleted, I tried launching XBMC after deleting. It says cannot find XBMC. So, it's definitely deleted.

It's 3am where I am. My eyes must be playing tricks on me.

If you have r32661 then it means you're stil using night builds from schss. Try to official builds from xbmc.org. Who knows that gives you a difference.

ds129 · 2010-08-18 21:18

Riderzzz Wrote:If you have r32661 then it means you're stil using night builds from schss. Try to official builds from xbmc.org. Who knows that gives you a difference.

But I thought we're supposed to use the nightly builds to enable CrystalHD. No?

The official build doesn't support it. Pls correct me if i'm wrong.

**davilla** · 2010-08-18 21:21

ds129 Wrote:But I thought we're supposed to use the nightly builds to enable CrystalHD. No?

The official build doesn't support it. Pls correct me if i'm wrong.

XBMC's official nighties for OSX do support both old and new API. I don't know what schss does.

ds129 · 2010-08-18 21:32

davilla Wrote:XBMC's official nighties for OSX do support both old and new API. I don't know what schss does.

Ok. Was using the schss build earlier. Now, i ran the following script on atv to add the "official" nightly build to launcher:

Code:

defaults write com.teamxbmc.xbmclauncher XBMCAdditionalDownloadPlistURLs -array-add http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/osx/update_urls.plist

Downloading and installing now...

ds129 · 2010-08-18 21:39

ds129 Wrote:Ok. Was using the schss build earlier. Now, i ran the following script on atv to add the "official" nightly build to launcher:

Code:

defaults write com.teamxbmc.xbmclauncher XBMCAdditionalDownloadPlistURLs -array-add http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/osx/update_urls.plist

Downloading and installing now...

OK. Installed and rebooted. Now XBMC system info shows 32894M. Yay! Smile

But still NO crystal hd option in Video -> Playback. Sad

Any other ideas that can help me situation please? Any terminal commands that can show exactly that the card is working, and the correct drivers are loaded?

Is there a way for me to tell whether the card I bought is spoilt? I bought it from logicsupply. Cost me 1/3 of the price of the ATV, including shipping. Sigh.

Riderzzz · 2010-08-18 21:45

ds129 Wrote:OK. Installed and rebooted. Now XBMC system info shows 32894M. Yay!

But still NO crystal hd option in Video -> Playback.

Any other ideas that can help me situation please? Any terminal commands that can show exactly that the card is working, and the correct drivers are loaded?

Is there a way for me to tell whether the card I bought is spoilt? I bought it from logicsupply. Cost me 1/3 of the price of the ATV, including shipping. Sigh.

If you used it without problems with r26 before and if you're kextstat is showng now an older version and you have been copying then i would say smth went wrong with the drivers.

I'm not a pro in this stuff, but i would reinstall r26 drivers again and then copy the 4 files with the commands posted earlier in my post.
Then with kextstat it should show 3.5.0. If so, then check if xbmc is having the option for enabling crystalHD.

ATM you are searching for an error what could be everywhere.

but atleast you're running now on the official xbmc.org revision.

ds129 Junior Member Posts: 35 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-08-18 20:42 Post: #42 davilla Wrote:ls -l please. ls -l show following: Code: `bash-2.05b# ls -l total 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 0 Oct 7 2006 .localized drwxr-xr-x 4 frontrow frontrow 136 Jun 16 03:37 Boxee.app drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 2 2006 System Preferences.app lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 37 Aug 19 01:50 XBMC.app -> /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app`
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ds129 Junior Member Posts: 35 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-08-18 21:18 Post: #46 Riderzzz Wrote:If you have r32661 then it means you're stil using night builds from schss. Try to official builds from xbmc.org. Who knows that gives you a difference. But I thought we're supposed to use the nightly builds to enable CrystalHD. No? The official build doesn't support it. Pls correct me if i'm wrong.
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