[mythtv-users] Re: xbox frontend

[Don Carter]

On August 4, 2003 10:16 am, Dennis Cartier wrote:

> Still waiting to hear of the first successful install ...

You've got it!  :-)

> Can you try the following:

> rename myth_vmlinuz to vmlinuz
> rename myth_initrd to initrd
> update linuxboot.cfg to point to vmlinuz and initrd (remove myth_ from in
front)

Ok, I did all that, and it still didn't work.  But then I switched to the 
default.xbe that is distributed with the font exploit, and everything did 
work.  So in summary, to install your distribution on an xbox running the 
font-exploit (aka dashboard-hack), I had to put the following files on the c 
drive (/dev/hdc51):

  default.xbe     (from the font exploit distribution (aka dashboard-hack))
  vmlinuz         (renamed myth_vmlinuz)
  initrd             (renamed myth_initrd)
  linuxboot.cfg  (with myth_ removed from vmlinuz and initrd)

and put everything else on the e: drive (/dev/hdc50).


Couple of notes (though I haven't had much time to play with it):

  - would be cool if X had the XTEST extension enabled. Then you can use the 
x2x utility to use your desktop keyboard/mouse to control the xbox's X11 
display - I'm still looking for information on how to enable XTEST.

  - got mythfrontend running, and I can watch live tv.  The picture is _much_ 
sharper (than gentoox without the rivafb).  You especially notice it on still 
shots like the blue background in mythtv, which seemed to shimmer under 
gentoox.  I checked lsmod though, and the rivafb module doesn't seem to be 
loaded.  Is it statically compiled in the kernel?  

  - the picture/audio still stutters breifly about once every 5 seconds.  CPU 
load is slightly over 1, and mythfrontend (main process) is at about 83% CPU 
(seems a little high, the xbox barely even flinches when running mplayer at 
11% CPU).  Is it the scaling issue?  Could you give me a little more 
information on what you did?

  - you said in the README that you are using a different remote on the xbox?  
How is it connected?  Is it a usb ir receiver running with lirc? 

  - there seem to be quite a few people interested in mythtv on xbox.  I don't 
want to spam this list with lots of xbox-specific questions, but at the same 
time running mythtv on xbox does have lots of unusual quirks.  Perhaps we 
should start a mythtv-on-xbox specific thread based around your distribution?


Again, thanks to everyone for all the hard work.  This thing is amazing...

Don