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On 11/5/2005 9:12 PM Nick Rout wrote: |
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>On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:15:37 -0800 |
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>Drew Tomlinson <drew@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>I have a box running kernel version 2.6.13-r5, and MythTV 0.18.2 built |
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>>from portage. I'm using a video card with the nvidia nv18 chipset |
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>>(6600?). I also have a custom xorg modeline for my widescreen HDTV. My |
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>>video card is connected via a VGA to component converter. The screen |
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>>looks good and regular desktop mode works fine. The mouse moves. MythTV |
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>>menus are displayed and the cursor moves around |
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>>when I hit the arrow keys. |
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>>The problem is when I switch to a video mode. The video freezes at the |
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>>first frame. The audio continues and plays just fine. The freezing |
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>>problem occurs whether I'm viewing LiveTV, previously recorded shows, |
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>>and even video files via MythVideo (uses mplayer). All of this used to |
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>>work until I upgraded hardware and rebuilt my system. |
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>>I have no idea what the cause might be or where to start looking. Any ideas? |
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>>Drew |
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>try running mplayer from the command line and see what error messages |
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>are given. |
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>also look in the standard places like dmesg and /var/log/Xorg*.log. |
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>You can also run mythfrontend from the command line with verbose |
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>logging. |
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Thanks for your reply. mplayer did not indicate any errors, nor did |
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dmesg. I didn't think to look in Xorg.log before I fixed the problem. |
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In upgrading my system to use a component to VGA converter, I copied a |
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xorg.conf file I found on the web as a starting point. One of the |
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modules it loaded was "fbdevhw" which I have no idea what it does. |
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Judging by the name, I guess "frame buffer" from "fb" and "development" |
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from "dev"? I could not find any info on Google about what modules are |
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included for X and what they do. But this module just seemed like it |
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might be interfering and it wasn't included in my old xorg.conf so I |
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commented it out and restarted X. Now the video works fine. |
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I'd appreciate any link that describes X modules so I could learn more |
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about them. |
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Cheers, |
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Drew |
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