[LINUX] HOW-TO install Crustalbuntu minimal image to internal Apple TV harddrive

Wow, I had no idea about that dds stuff until you mentioned it JDizzy. What a huge difference that made, thanks!

mbetter Wrote:Wow, I had no idea about that dds stuff until you mentioned it JDizzy. What a huge difference that made, thanks!

Yeah, it does take disk space though... using the USB stick I couldn't use it but finally I can!

You have to go through your list of movies slow enough to show the fanart, then move to next one, then the next, etc, etc....

The DDS will slowly add the images and once done, you can really fly through them without much pause (if any).

JDizzy Wrote:Yeah, it does take disk space though... using the USB stick I couldn't use it but finally I can!

You have to go through your list of movies slow enough to show the fanart, then move to next one, then the next, etc, etc....

The DDS will slowly add the images and once done, you can really fly through them without much pause (if any).

Yeah, that took me a few minutes to do.. but, now that it's done, it's like night and day.

I'm really tempted to put together a guide combining all of these guides. If I had the whole plan laid out, this all could have been done in a single night.

Bandit_Kaine thank you so much for putting up this tutorial. I'm certain I'm not the only one who found it very annoying that when asking how to do this, we were given only bits and pieces of information which served only to confuse us more. Following your tutorial I finally got it all running on my HDD, something that I have wanted to do for months, in matter of less than an hour.

Awesome job!

My little app seems to be allowing users to click and install distros on USBs or the internal drive perfectly good, so hold off on the guides, there'll soon be an app that does it all.

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:My little app seems to be allowing users to click and install distros on USBs or the internal drive perfectly good, so hold off on the guides, there'll soon be an app that does it all.

Sam,
Can we use your app and write right over what we have installed manually? I have only Linux and XBMC on Apple TV HDD. Thanks!

JDizzy,
Can you let me know how you enabled DDS Fanart.
Where do I put the advanced settings.xml? When I SSh in I cannot find my userdata folder on my USB stick.
Be kind as I am still coming to grips with all things linux.
I am using Pin's image on an ATV on a 8Gb stick but am about to throw it onto the internal ATV harddisk when I get some time.

Cheers

kevthemilkman Wrote:JDizzy,
Can you let me know how you enabled DDS Fanart.
Where do I put the advanced settings.xml? When I SSh in I cannot find my userdata folder on my USB stick.
Be kind as I am still coming to grips with all things linux.
I am using Pin's image on an ATV on a 8Gb stick but am about to throw it onto the internal ATV harddisk when I get some time.

Cheers

When you SSH in, you'll be in the XBMC user's home folder (/home/xbmc/). You need to put the advancedsettings.xml (no space) in /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/.

kevthemilkman Wrote:JDizzy,
Can you let me know how you enabled DDS Fanart.
Where do I put the advanced settings.xml? When I SSh in I cannot find my userdata folder on my USB stick.
Be kind as I am still coming to grips with all things linux.
I am using Pin's image on an ATV on a 8Gb stick but am about to throw it onto the internal ATV harddisk when I get some time.

Cheers

I would start here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...figuration

Read through that. It also depends on what system you run but my userdata folder is located at:

Quote:/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata

You have to create the advancedsettings.xml file and enter the lines:

Quote:<advancedsettings>
<useddsfanart>true</useddsfanart>
</advancedsettings>

A word to the wise: DO NOT use this on your stick!
I read another post a while back by someone who did... I think it was titled:
8GB Thumbdrive + DDS fanart = Oops!!

Not to say you won't be fine.... But buyer beware!

As Sam said above, he is working on an app and image that will automate putting this all on your HD... your call.

Well, I couldn't leave good enough alone. I used the guide to install Ubuntu and XBMC live on my ATV. I was also successful in moving the image to the hard drive. All was good (1080p mkv with DTS audio worked). I then followed JDizzy's post to upgrade to RC1 and CrystalHD 1.74. XBMC no longer loads the crystal driver (no crystall option in the xbmc render box no 1080 playback).

I got the following error when using the code noted in JDizzy's post to upgrade the driver (sudo make install)
mkdir -p /usr/lib
mkdir -p /lib/firmware
mkdir -p /usr/include/libcrystalhd
cp libcrystalhd_if.h /usr/include/libcrystalhd/
cp ../../include/bc_dts_defs.h /usr/include/libcrystalhd/
cp ../../include/bc_dts_types.h /usr/include/libcrystalhd/
cp ../../include/libcrystalhd_version.h /usr/include/libcrystalhd/
cp ../../firmware/fwbin/70012/bcm70012fw.bin /lib/firmware/
cp ../../firmware/fwbin/70015/bcm70015fw.bin /lib/firmware/
install -m 755 libcrystalhd.so.3.6 /usr/lib
install: cannot stat `libcrystalhd.so.3.6': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error

The rest of the code seems to work without errors. Upon reboot, I get the following when checking for the driver install
xbmc@AppleTV:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i crystal
[ 58.715900] Loading crystalhd v3.8.0
[ 59.562630] crystalhd 0000:02:00.0: Starting Device:0x1612

Also when I check XBMC Crash log I see the following error

00:36:22 T:3043694432 M:197074944 ERROR: Unable to load libcrystalhd.so.3, reason: libcrystalhd.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Most of this Linux stuff is way over my head, I'm hoping for some easily corrected silly mistake. Any help would be greatly appreciated.