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
. 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. :)
You have given several problems, so many I would have no clue where to start as I don't know where are in the install :)
http://wiki.eple.us/appletv_ubuntu_9.10_xbmc is a karmic install guide, and Kendrick gave some corrections to it. Start there, when you hit a problem, stop and ask rather than thrash about trying various thing. This way we know where you are and can assist resolving that specific issue.
Note, when trying to get component working, you force the resolution you want, there's no way to to obtain the TV's resolution over a component connection, it's output only and the nvidia/x11 driver cannot ask the TV.
Sounds like you have an xorg.conf issue. -- 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
