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Well, everything seems to have installed just fine - Thanks!
After the ATV boots, I end up with just a blank screen.
This is using both Component and HDMI.
I can SSH in and everything looks fine.
XBMC.bin is running, humming along at 5-7% cpu.
Is there anything special that I forgot to do?
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Thanks so much for all the help in this thread, everything worked great.
Just so everyone knows, the reason I thought it wasn't working at first was that about every 2nd or 3rd boot the boot-up process fails trying to connect to svn.stmlabs.com.
It appears to be a DNS error, but I'm not sure.
I just SSH in and do "sudo reboot" and it comes back up fine.
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I was also wondering if we can use skype on the apple tv? I am meant to travle away soon and would love to have it setup in the big TV (to see my kids) with my webcam (Logitech STX) that worked on normal version of Ubunutu before.
I tried to search for it on Google/XBMC but I could not find any tutorial. I think most of the versions here run on top of the desktop which might make it easier to setup.
Even if someone knows of a script/command to start something on the GUI on top of XBMC would be fantastic. I can figure out way to install Skype by spending some time on it.
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I wanted to say thank you for this tutorial. It was awesome and it got Sam's latest beta image running from scratch on my Apple TV 1.
Just a few issues I have run into that I was hoping I could get some help with.
Not sure what I did wrong, if anything, but the user xbmc/xbmc never existed. I have had to use atv/atv to get in via SSH and FTP every time. The issue I have is that the atv/atv user does not have root access so I am unable to FTP any files up to the xbmc folder which I need to do. Any ideas there?
Also I have a 160 GB apple TV and when I got to the steps to use all the disk space, I was unable to perform the "sudo rm 3" command because the device was in use. I could not find a way to umount it either (sudo did not even work using SSH).
Anyway not sure if I messed up but I did each step literally though I realize there are always nuances. Anyway not sure if anyone is still reading this thread but I did want to share my issues as if anyone else uses this guide like I did, step by step exact, maybe they ran into the same thing.
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Starstream, you are right, however, the installer does not need them modifications, I have a script that incorporates xenity's dialog system to allow user simple choices of installation (waiting on Arch image though)