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- akg4y - 2010-06-29

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Whos image, mine or pin87a's? Did you modify anything (does it work fine on a stock image), does it work on any other tvs in the house?

It was Pin87a's image, I made the modifications to make it work with component video as described on the atv-bootloader page... it doesnt wok on any TVs. I have it connected to an video distribution switch and tested in on multiple TVs and on my projector.

Prior to making the component video changes I believe it worked because I could hear the sounds of navigating the xbmc menus, but I couldnt see anything because it was set up for HDMI.


- Sam.Nazarko - 2010-06-29

Sorry can't help much because I just followed the atv-bootloader instructions and it was fine for me. Try restoring the disk image and giving it another go.


- davilla - 2010-06-29

akg4y Wrote:Hey Sam, thanks for your help... the issue is it just keeps repeating 'starting-x' over and over without loading xbmc. I let it run for about 10 minutes and it put up 'starting-x' about a total of 100 times.

perhaps you should look at dmesg, /var/log/syslog or xorg's log rather than guess what is going on.


- tuckbodi - 2010-06-29

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:I'd wait for buildbot to compile it tommorow and re-upload the disk image, but I will be in the air, so I can't update it for a couple of weeks.

How about doing a r31463 image with CrystalHD r114 and then we can just update XBMC from there?


- davilla - 2010-06-29

tuckbodi Wrote:How about doing a r31463 image with CrystalHD r114 and then we can just update XBMC from there?

http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/31479 would be a much better choice.


- jodeman - 2010-06-30

davilla Wrote:ping Sam.Nazarko

http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/31479

opps Smile

I've got the image running off the internal drive, rather than a thumb drive. Is there a way for me to update the CrystalHD driver and 31479 manually? Or, will I have to recopy the image each time?


- lalaw - 2010-06-30

jodeman Wrote:I've got the image running off the internal drive, rather than a thumb drive. Is there a way for me to update the CrystalHD driver and 31479 manually? Or, will I have to recopy the image each time?

You can update yourself. To update XBMC, see this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=75487

To update to r114, do something like this (modified from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_install_a_Miminal_Ubuntu_and_XBMC_with_sound_over_HDMI_on_the_AppleTV):

Code:
svn checkout http://crystalhd-for-osx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk crystalhd-r114
cd crystalhd-r114/crystalhd/linux_lib/libcrystalhd
make
sudo make install
cd ../../driver/linux
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe crystalhd



- jodeman - 2010-06-30

lalaw Wrote:You can update yourself. To update XBMC, see this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=75487

To update to r114, do something like this (modified from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_install_a_Miminal_Ubuntu_and_XBMC_with_sound_over_HDMI_on_the_AppleTV):

Code:
svn checkout http://crystalhd-for-osx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk crystalhd-r114
cd crystalhd-r114/crystalhd/linux_lib/libcrystalhd
make
sudo make install
cd ../../driver/linux
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe crystalhd

Absolutely perfect, thank you!


- wojo - 2010-06-30

what should I do to auto-start xbmc? after upgrade xbmc doesn't start Sad


- jodeman - 2010-07-01

lalaw Wrote:To update to r114, do something like this (modified from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_install_a_Miminal_Ubuntu_and_XBMC_with_sound_over_HDMI_on_the_AppleTV):

Code:
svn checkout http://crystalhd-for-osx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk crystalhd-r114
cd crystalhd-r114/crystalhd/linux_lib/libcrystalhd
make
sudo make install
cd ../../driver/linux
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe crystalhd

Everything seemed to update fine... But, now any hd video I play is in black & white. Any idea what I may have done wrong?


- davilla - 2010-07-01

jodeman Wrote:Everything seemed to update fine... But, now any hd video I play is in black & white. Any idea what I may have done wrong?

change renderer to ARB


- jodeman - 2010-07-01

davilla Wrote:change renderer to ARB

Ah, that was it. Thank you!!


- davilla - 2010-07-01

How many have updated to the new driver/lib/firmware without problems and also have the old layout bcm70012 hw ?


- legato23 - 2010-07-01

davilla Wrote:How many have updated to the new driver/lib/firmware without problems and also have the old layout bcm70012 hw ?
Is it possible to check for new or old hardware layout without opening the AppleTV again? (with some kind of shell command?)
If so, I'll be happily willing to update to the new driver/lib/firmware and test/use it for a while.


- iscraigh - 2010-07-01

I have the old hardware and would like to upgrade not sure how to use the svn repository on the appletv running the apple software. If you tell me how I will be glad to. If it makes it easier I have linux and osx desktops.


Craig