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I have 2 atvs that are running the pin87a (updated to latest xbmc/chd) image off the internal hard drive. would there be any advantages to going with this image instead? Has anyone migrated from pin87 to this that can attest to increases in performance?
also, I have 1 bcmxx12 card and 1 bcmxx15 card. i'm running 174 on the 15 and something else (i forgot) on the 12 - something to do with DMA buffers, honestly it was a while back. Is this addressed or is it a non-issue at this point?
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Are you doing work on the installer script? I'm trying to run the install image and it errors our right at the beginning of the script when it tries to download the .sh install script from your site. Network is working as I was able to get the .crystalshd.sh but that one gives me a bunch of other errors.
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No I'm not doing any active work. I finalised some changes earlier. There is no file called installer.sh. It's supposed to be installer/.distrochoice.sh. Did you restore the image using the UI tool or did you just restore it yourself -- because using dd or restoring it yourself does not inject the Ubuntu distro choice, which is why your error exists
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nevermind, I guessed it was ubuntu even though the /.distro it was trying to cat didn't exist. Seems to be working now.
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Sam,
A slight modification to the linux installer would be nice. I decided to play with Ubuntu and VMware. Wouldn't you know, no parted installed. So, after waiting for the download, the script bonks due to no parted. I apt-get it, and then the script begins again. It gets really mad at me this time because /dev/sdb wasn't available due to operator error. Begin again...
If there's a way to have it check and see if there's a current image downloaded, that might save some of us donkeys at least 15 minutes... (Yes, smarter souls would just read the script and start wherever it cut out, but it would have been much cooler if dd had done its thing while I was getting the boys sorted for school).
Just a thought.
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Hi Sam,
First: thanks for your effort and your work, is the first time I try a Linux for my ATV and after installing it (not without pain, because my Powerbook "ubuntized" did not inject the distro for the usb installation), but after a bit of tweaking it´s installed and working almost fine.
I say almost because I have two questions:
a) HD content doesn't play well. I tested some movies I watched in an ATV of my brother (pin's image there) perfectly well. These movies hang my new installation or stop the play or I see pixelation or dropouts with lack of sync audio-video. My question is: I have the old Broadcom chip...have I to downgrade the drivers?
b) you stated in the manual "This Ubuntu distribution will support TOSLINK and HDMI output. For HDMI output, it is necessary to go to Settings > System > Audio Output and select the use of a Custom Device (obviously enabling Digital Sound Output), the custom device must be entered exactly as: plughw:0,3".... is it possible to get USB sound?
Thanks a lot. Excited about to get the most of ATV
JL
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I could hypothetically MD5 the chosen image or SHA1 it but this would require adjustments. I'm not sure how I'd implement this into Linux -- unless I used a PHP script and wgetted the contents which returned the hash from MySQL (running checksum each time would be too intensive).
Maybe for later but I don't see it being the focus area of development as many users don't repeatedly run the script. I need to port the apt repository before April 30th as Hardy goes end of life then. Also need to start a build service as XBMC dev team no longer compiles for Hardy