[mythtv-users] Nooby with serious problems

[Sim]

On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 22:50, Sim wrote:
> I have an EZ-Buddie2 SFF computer with an XFX 5200 personal cinema card
> (the tuner is not supported by rivatv yet so I do not use it) (there is
> also onboard graphihcs but disbled in bios) and a Leadtek Winfast TV 2000
> XP Deluxe.  This is all connected to an oldish 17" monitor.  xawtv and
> tvtime both work fine, and lspci -v is pasted below.  My XF86Config has
> settings in for TV-out but I don't use them, but anyway the impression is
> that the screen is black rather than off - sometimes the first few key
> presses (e.g. numlock on/off) are respected but no other resopnse is shown
> and even that does not happen each time.  I seem to be able to ssh in, but
> have not found the right process to kill and I can't even use that to
> reboot - so I'm left with the reset button.

Turned out to be a kernel problem - I upgraded to a multimedia kernel from 
thac and then it worked OK.

Now I'll work on the database issue

Sim