I got this working on my AppleTV and it works great. I have Ubuntu running on the AppleTV with the Crystal HD card using this guide
HOW-TO install a Miminal Ubuntu and XBMC with sound over HDMI on the AppleTV.
I followed the instructions in this thread but needed to alter a few comments to get it working. To install ruby-dev I needed to use:
Code:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
Then trying to build I got an error "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext". I fixed this by installing libxect-dev:
Code:
sudo apt-get install libxext-dev
After that I could build and install the driver. But still had some trouble with the "ERROR: Can't open display :0.0" error. Not knowing I needed to run the export DISPLAY command under the user on which XBMC is running (which is xbmc if you used the minimal ubuntu guide). And it worked
Still need to get the udev part working, but I am a bit of a Linux n00b so still a bit of trouble there
Probably because the xbmc account isn't allowed to sudo?
This is really great guys!