[mythtv-users] MythTV on the 2010 Mac mini update, getting there...

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Jul 1 21:27:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jurgen Kramer <gtmkramer at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Since last time I reported about trying to get MythTV running on the new
> 2010 mac mini I've made some progress.
>
> I managed to install Fedora 13 x86_64 on the internal HDD and went from
> there.
>
> My current status:
>
> - Ethernet:
> OK, needs kernel >= 2.6.34
> - SATA:
> OK-ish, needs patch/workaround, I made a custom 2.6.34 kernel to make it
> work. With the workaround to get the MCP89 SATA controller going it's
> not very quick but doable.
>
> - Nvidia video out through HDMI:
> OK works, tested with the latest nvidia binary driver.
>
> - Nvidia audio through HDMI:
> ALSA from kernel 2.6.34 recognizes 3 HDMI audio outputs but I could not
> get sound from any of them :(. Maybe newer alsa drivers are needed but
> the ALSA modules no longer compile on Fedora 13...
>
>
> So it looks promising but I'm not there yet.

If someone sends me one, I'll collect all the necessary patches and
commit them into the Fedora kernels and try to fix any remaining
issues. (I'm only joking a little bit... I may actually see if our
kernel hardware team can't just go buy one...)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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