2/25/2006

Modded Xbox & SourceForge sucking

Cardoe wrote this in the early afternoon:

So this week I took the plunge once I canceled my Xbox Live service and bought a modchip for my Xbox. I installed a X-Lite modchip and use the X-Chip EvoX BIOS along with Xbox Media Center and I’ve tried to install XBMC for MythTV. XBMCMythTV is a add-on written in python. I would love to try it and contribute some code back but SourceForge currently sucks.

I only got the Xbox modchip to install Linux and MythTV on the Xbox but leave functionality to play Xbox games intact. The reason for this was that I currently can’t get my PPC box to output anything to TV-out but even if I did I’d probably need to get a new card like an ATI Radeon 9550 but I’m too broke to afford it now.

Now I was going to install GentooX MCE (since I didn’t want to compile everything on) on my Xbox and contribute to getting Gentoo to work better on the Xbox but I found out I needed at least 20gb free which seemed a bit excessive. I only have the original Xbox HD in there which is an 8gb (I have the Xbox 1.0) and you need a seperate partition for Linux that has to be above the 8gb mark so that ruled out Linux
So I’m trying to use XBMCMythTV but like I said SourceForge sucks because something is wrong with their CVS server. XBMCMythTV for 0.19 is only available in CVS. I followed the basic instructions:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xbmcmythtv login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xbmcmythtv co -P xbmcmythtv

But it doesn’t grab all the code. Just random files are missing so it won’t work currently. I keep running “cvs up -dP” but it hasn’t fixed it. Re-checking out the sources doesn’t fix it either. No idea what’s going on.

* Filed under: General, Linux, MythTV

3 Responses to “Modded Xbox & SourceForge sucking”

  1. Robert Says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 4:56 am

    Hi,

    A great alternative to Gentoox MCE is Xebian 1.1.4. It’s a breeze to install mythtv-frontend with apt. You’ll find my howto on http://mythfrontend.topcities.com.

    regards,
    Robert

  2. Matt Says:
    April 4th, 2006 at 9:36 pm

    You might like to try using emule and search for an xbmc cvs.

    They are typically complete, don’t need compiling etc - just ftp to the xbox and create a pointer in your dashboard.

  3. Daddy Says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    Have you tried looking on the xbins server for a build?

    If you go to an irc Efnet server and join the #xbins channel, all instructions come to those who log in.

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