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On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:17 +0000, Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600 |
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> > > Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > The reason it was giving me the error was because mythbackend was |
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> > > > > shutting down. I ran mythbackend in a screen, detached the screen and |
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> > > > > ran mythfrontend. I did this twice. Both times once mythfrontend |
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> > > > > loaded I selected the Watch Live TV option and it showed me about a |
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> > > > > second and a half of live TV and then froze. Both times I had to Cntrl |
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> > > > > +Alt+Backspace to get out of it. I have a 1.33GHz P4 processor, so that |
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> > > > > shouldn't be the problem. Amazingly mythbackend is still running in the |
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> > > > > screen. Here's the output so far: |
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> > > > > |
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> > > |
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> > > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card drivers. For now, |
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> > > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with something like |
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> > > tvtime - |
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> > > |
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> > > [ N] media-tv/tvtime (0.9.12): High quality television application for use with video capture cards. |
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> > > |
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> > > Perhaps some tweaking to /etc/X11/xorg.conf is needed or different params to the video card |
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> > > driver to change some options. If the system won't play live tv, without issue, messing with MythTV |
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> > > won't fix it. |
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> > > |
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> > > There are some suggestions here - |
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> > > |
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> > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#Video |
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> > > |
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> > > Bob |
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> > |
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> > I looked at the link you sent me. Most of it didn't make sense to me. |
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> > One part that did make sense was the |
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> > |
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> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#X_Setup |
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> > |
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> > I created a test user (to avoid screwing up my personal account) and |
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> > copied to listed .xinitrc and .xsession information into testuser's |
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> > counterparts of those files. I started kdm and attempted to log in to a |
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> > Custom session with testuser. It kept spitting me back out at the login |
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> > screen. I asked to go back to the console and looked |
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> > at /var/log/kdm.log. There's a bunch of this: |
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> > |
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> > X Window System Version 6.8.2 |
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> > Release Date: 9 February 2005 |
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> > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 |
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> > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 [ELF] |
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> > Current Operating System: Linux camille 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sun Jan |
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> > 1 22:29:29 CST 2006 i686 |
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> > Build Date: 26 December 2005 |
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> > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org |
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> > to make sure that you have the latest version. |
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> > Module Loader present |
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> > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, |
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> > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, |
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> > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. |
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> > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 2 10:58:02 2006 |
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> > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" |
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> > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Holly said something about my kernel not being set up correctly when I |
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> > was having this problem with gdm, but gdm works just fine. Just kdm and |
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> > the custom session. How do I compile apg into my kernel to fix this? |
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> > Here's my kernel config, created by genkernel: |
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> > |
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> > # |
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> > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit |
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> > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 |
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> > # Sun Jan 1 22:22:04 2006 |
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> > # |
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> > CONFIG_X86=y |
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> > CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y |
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> > CONFIG_MMU=y |
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> > CONFIG_UID16=y |
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> > CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y |
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> > CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y |
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> > CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y |
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> >...SKIP... |
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> > |
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> > # |
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> > # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver |
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> > # |
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> > # CONFIG_AGP is not set |
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> ==============^ switch this to ON plus the entry for your motherboard chips support. |
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How do I find out what the entry for my motherboard chips (-set I |
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assume) is? Is there a software way to determine this? All I know is |
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that it's SUPPOSED to be a Pentium IV, but it might not be... |
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