[mythtv-users] Help With xorg.conf and S-Video Setup
Aaron Stewart
acs at hourglassone.com
Wed Jun 8 01:24:39 UTC 2005
Can you play a video (any ol' one will do) in mplayer or xine?
Check to see if myth has XVMC enabled.. try toggling it on and/or off
and see if that works.
If that's the case, check your video drivers.. something is probably
fishy there.
-=A
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I've built my first Myth box using 0.18.1 and a Gentoo 2.6.11 kernel.
> Everything was working OK while connected to a regular 4:3 VGA monitor
> running 1024x768 res. Liking what I saw, I decided to move the system
> to my 38" RCA HDTV.
>
> I have a GeForce2 card. I'm using the S-Video out to one of the video
> inputs on my TV. Using a plain vanilla config (posted below), I get a
> picture that is fuzzy but readable. However after starting
> mythfrontend, anytime I attempt to watch either live tv or a
> recording, the interface appears to just "lock up". The machine still
> responds via ssh connections from another computer but X and icewm are
> frozen. Only a "kill" will free it.
>
> I have Googled for 2 days now but am no closer to understanding what I
> need to do to get things going. Does it make sense that X would
> "hose" just by switching to SVideo? Also, where can I begin to
> understand what options I need in my xorg.conf file to clear up the
> picture and stabilize X? I know SVideo will never be as clear as VGA,
> but I expect it to be at least as clear as the SVideo that comes out
> of my DirecTV box. Is that a reasonable expectation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
> ***Begin xorg.conf***
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "X.org Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "extmod"
> # Comment out dri per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
> # to use nvidia driver
> # Load "dri"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "glx"
> Load "type1"
> Load "freetype"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> #DisplaySize 340 250 # mm
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "TV"
> ModelName "S-Video"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
> BoardName "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
> Option "RenderAccel" "1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
> DefaultDepth 24
> EndSection
>
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