I've been trying to do the same, spent 6 hours straight on it last night and couldn't get it to boot onto xbmc right. I kept running into errors to the point of where I had to start from scratch 3 times, mostl from the autobooting on xbmc to xorg not detecting the resolutions on my tv through component. I figured out most of the mistakes on the guide and installed xbmc based on the svn ppa and I got weird font errors and it wouldn't quit crashing.
I tried drivers 185-195 and all issues have been the same. I tried the method of finding compatible resolutions posted on the linux forums but I could only get 1024x768 and lower to show up, but it would still error out. I think a straight forward guide dealing with bootloader on the new grub in karmic would be great. I've been using the XBMCbuntu guide as well in the wiki. Everything is all jacked up right now. I have a no gl driver message popping up even though I've tried reinstalling them like 5 times. I'm leaving it there until I can figure this thing out. I think it goes fine until I try to merge instuctions and figure things out on my own. Please help. :) On Feb 7, 3:45 pm, Kendrick Vargas <[email protected]> wrote: > Really? I did an install of Ubuntu loosely based on this: > > http://wiki.eple.us/appletv_ubuntu_9.10_xbmc > > And my system works fine, although I don't use the svn nightlies... but > that's just a matter of using the SVN PPA for XBMC. It's not XBMCLive. > Whoever wrote it got a number of the commands wrong. For example, > there's no installing envyng, it's called envyng-core. The command isn't > apt-add-repository, it's add-apt-repository. It seems like he wrote the > guide from memory. > > I found a different way of starting XBMC automatically on the net that > also didn't work completely, I ended up having to mod it also. However I > ultimately ended up with a system that's worked better than anything > else I've run on the box (IMHO) and I've run versions of Ubuntu from 7.x > up to the 9.10 I'm running now. > > Sometime in the next week my wife is headed off to visit her family for > two weeks, so I was planning to put up a page on the atv-bootloader site > detailing how to install 9.10 for XBMC. Including copies of my configs > for LIRC, an XBMC auto-start script for the upstart system, xorg > configs, the things that still work for releasing the 64M of memory from > the video drivers, etc... > -peace > > > > Andrew Baxter wrote: > > I can only get it to boot using the XBMCbuntu method on the wiki. > > Unfortunately That intalls the XBMC-live and I can't seem to update to > > SVN nightly without completely breaking everything. > > > On Feb 6, 11:28 pm, "Scott D. Davilla" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I am dual booting Karmic on my laptop and handle all commands to the > >>> ATV through that. I have been using karmic but I am going to go ahead > >>> and try Hardy. WOuld you suggest trying the minimal install through > >>> netbbot method or through the usb stick/iso method? I want to give > >>> this another go, because I don't like to be defeated by projects. > >>> Thanks for helping out thus far. I have been partitioning the drive > >>> while it was connected to the apple tv through SSH and a bootloader > >>> stick. It seems to be working well so far. > >> I guess I don't understand, if you have karmic on the AppleTV > >> already, what's the problem ? -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
