Finally received my atmolight stuff by http://atmolight.de/

Awesome, just wanted to quickly post additional stuff to the basic checkout the boblight code, ./configure make, make install steps:

Some of the boblight tools look for libboblight.so in /usr/lib/ however its copied to /usr/local/lib/ by default so to resolve this symlink it:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libboblight.so /usr/lib/libboblight.so

Next we need a proper atmolight.conf in /etc/ I used the one provided by carsten for the windows version minus the parameters the latest build complains about.
Don't forget to change the output on your end (its going to be /dev/ttyUSB0 unless you have some other serial USB stuff connected to your mediacenter).

[global]
interface	127.0.0.1
port		19333
 
[device]
name		ambilight
type		atmo
output		/dev/ttyUSB2
rate		38400
channels	15
interval	16000
prefix		FF
 
[color]
name		red
rgb		FF0000
gamma		1.0
adjust		1.0
blacklevel	0.0
 
[color]
name		green
rgb		00FF00
gamma		1.0
adjust		1.0
blacklevel	0.0
 
[color]
name		blue
rgb		0000FF
gamma		1.0
adjust		1.0
blacklevel	0.0
 
[light]
name		left
color		red 	ambilight 4
color		green 	ambilight 5
color		blue 	ambilight 6
hscan		0 50
vscan		0 100
 
[light]
name		right
color		red 	ambilight 7
color		green 	ambilight 8
color		blue 	ambilight 9
hscan		50 100
vscan		0 100
 
[light]
name		top
color		red 	ambilight 10
color		green 	ambilight 11
color		blue 	ambilight 12
hscan		0 100
vscan		0 50
 
[light]
name		bottom
color		red 	ambilight 13
color		green 	ambilight 14
color		blue 	ambilight 15
hscan		0 100
vscan		50 100

Now start the daemon

sudo boblightd

Next in order to get the light color to match the display you need to run boblight-X11.
I currently run it with the following parameters which appears to look good to me

boblight-X11 -o saturation=2.5 -o value=10 -o threshold=20 -o use=1 -o interpolation=1 -o autospeed=1

If you want more intense colors tweak the saturation value to your desire.

If you experience random blinking/flashing of the rgb stripes and use an nvidia card make sure to disable flipping @ the nvidia-settings

I only spent an hour setting everything up and getting it working since its friday and I obviously need to head out soon but this shall do for now