While running mythBuntu on the HTPC, I got a pop-up box asking if I wanted to upgrade to 11.10. Since I was having trouble getting the sound to output through HDMI to the TV, I gave it a shot. This hosed everything. Wouldn’t even boot. Mythbuntu (or what was left of it) was stuck in a boot loop, with the screen slowing flashing.
Rather than put back Mythbunu, I decided to reload Ubuntu 11.10. Initially, the sound was also broken–that is, sound was output from the sound card to the analog jacks but not HDMI. Under System Settings -> Sound on the Hardware tab, under Settings for the selected device, there was a profile dropdown box with 20 different options. Setting this to Digital Stereo (HDMI) nr2 Output got sound coming through the TV.
With a screen this big (HD resolution) being viewed from across a room, the fonts are too small. The system settings don’t let you change this as they did in Mythbuntu. A little Googling turned up a recommendation to install gnome-tweak-tool. Under Fonts, changing the Text Scaling factor from 1.0 to 2.0 helped a lot.
I reinstalled XMBC. Note the repository they list doesn’t have 11.10 in it. Use the one for 11.10 in the XBMC-Repository-Overview link: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:alexandr-surkov/dharma-pvr
If your German isn’t so good and you add the wrong repository the first time (like I did), you can remove it by deleting the file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.
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