{"id":787,"date":"2011-10-29T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2011-10-29T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T02:36:54","slug":"ubuntu-11-10-on-htpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 11.10 on HTPC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. Under Fonts, changing the Text Scaling factor from 1.0 to 2.0 helped a lot.<\/p>\n

I reinstalled XMBC<\/a>. 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<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}