[mythtv-users] Newbie GeForce2 TV-Out BT869 question

[Monty Walls]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:40:33 -0500
"IvanK." <chepati at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Monty,
> 
> thanks for the help!  I added the xset and nvtv lines to my .xsession and 
> .xinitrc files.  I didn't have enough time to test if DPMS was turned off 
> (I'll check tonight).  But if I try to run the nvtv line as non-root I get an 
> error about nvidia devices not found or me not being root.  I chowned 
> /dev/nvidia* to a group that my mythtv user is a member of, but that didn't 
> help.  And I don't want to run myth as root.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> IvanK.

You should be able to run nvtvd as part of your system startup and then nvtv
will talk to it from a normal userid.  Check the nvtv doc's & faq.

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