[mythtv-users] 1.6b XBox (Xebian Myth0.17) won't playback recordings

[Greg Mitchell]

After seeing some people have success with using the 1.6 XBoxes as 
frontends, I took the plunge and picked one up.

After a disasterous attempted soft-mod (note to self, 3AM is not the 
correct time to be answering questions such as "do you want to format 
your hard drive?") I got a chip installed, and everything seems to be 
going ok.

The xebian install disc hung right after boot with a little bit of text 
and a single green pixel.  Being a Gentoo bigot, I tried Gentoox, but 
compiling stuff on the xbox was just to painful for me to deal with. 
Anyway, after seeing a tip about using xromwell.xbe to launch the Xebian 
disc, I managed to get Xebian installed.

I added the sarge/myth stuff to the sources file, and did an
apt-get update
apt-get install mythtv-frontend.

Everything went well, I had to set the window sizes manually in the 
mythfrontend (I used something like 590x435 with 25 offsets and 5% 
overscan) and with a little monkeying I got the remote working too.

Only problem is that I can't view recordings.  When I go to the screen 
with a live preview, it goest to a black screen, then the console, then 
the grey default X screen, then boots me back to the recordings screen. 
  If I shut off live previews, I can then pick a recording and start it, 
which results in the same sequence of black screen, console, grey 
screen, back to previous screen.

The console has a message like "agpgart: Unsupported NVidia chipset 
(device id: XXXX), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1"   Google 
didn't have any advice :/

Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?  Or does 1.6b just not 
work, and I misread some other posters?

For the time being, I'm using the XBMC MythTV scripts to watch stuff, 
but it's not as nice as using a real full frontend...

Thanks in advance.

Greg