[mythtv-users] frustrations in setup

[Albert Santoni]

I think I'm the first to respond to your message, so I'm sorry to inform you
that I can't help you out much.
I think at this point you may want to consider a different distro. (Mandrake
9.1?)
Redhat 8 gave me hell to set up, and I'm still feeling resentful.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hartman" <mythtv at elmegil.net>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] frustrations in setup


> Currently battling two problems:
>
> 1) when I'm using the TV-out, I have no fonts.  Anywhere a font would be
is
> blank.  Most obvious place is a terminal window, which is completely
blank,
> but will accept input and position the cursor as if something is going
> on.  Menus are also blank (except for the occasional icon), and also the
> desktop icons and bottom-bar icons are either invisible or come and go
(the
> Red Hat icon in particular).  I had something similar to this on the VGA
> output when I first installed the nvidia driver (I'm using a generic
> GeForce 4 440 MX card), but reading through the instructions more closely
I
> found that I was loading some modules I shouldn't have.  I'm not loading
> them any longer though.  I actually went back and removed anything which
> wasn't explicitly mentioned in the NVidia README with no change.  Anyone
> seen this behavior?  Any ideas?  This is RH9 with an AMD 2500+ (Barton)
MX,
> 512 Mb RAM.
>
> 2) I have no sound output.  I would swear when I first installed
everything
> in my "office" I had sound from xmame and system sounds.  Now that it's
> down at the stereo, I have nothing.  I double checked with headphones and
> nothing appears to be coming out.  I'm using the onboard sound on an ECS
> L7S7A2 board, which is a SiS 7012 (i810 clone).  I've checked and it does
> appear that the i810 driver is recognizing the card.  I've looked at aumix
> output, but the ascii output is pretty incomprehensable to me, and the
> xaumix output is small enough to be illegible on my TV-out.  Plus I have
to
> telnet into the box to see the ascii because of #1 (thank goodness for the
> wireless card in my laptop) :-).  But it appears when I do aumix -q that
> all the output channels are at reasonable levels.
>
>
> I've been googling and searching the archives and coming up with things
> that are tantalizing but no solutions.
>
> Maybe we should set up a mythtv-newb list for these kinds of
> questions.  Apologies to anyone who knows the magic search to find this
> information in the archives right away; I have had no luck with the
> searches I've tried.  Thanks to anyone who can shed light on where I
should
> look, what documentation is relevant that I haven't thought of, etc.
>
>
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