[mythtv-users] PVR 350 Almost there!!!..... I think

[Carl Petersen]

My Thread on "TVOut ...nVidia" [poor subject line, I guess] has the same 
problem:

nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 card won't 'startx'.  See the thread for 
details;  I've posted alot of system information.

Anyway, I have the timeline:  I did the first install ~ October 1, and 
the nVidia config lines Jarod gave for XF86Config worked;  I was able to 
'startx'.

When I did a re-install on October 13, the 'startx' did not work.

Another clue may be the reason I did the re-install:  I did not do the 
'step 6' 'apt-get dist-upgrade', which hosed me down in the lircd 
install (step 12).  So on the second install of 10-13, I did do it.  So, 
to summarize:

~10-01:  no step 6 'apt-get dist-upgrade', startx worked after install 
and configuration of nvidia drivers

10-13 : did do step 6 'apt-get dist-upgrade', startx did not work after 
install and configuration of nvidia drivers.

Again, I posted the output from a number of /sbin/foo commands in the 
thread " Cannot get TVOut to work: NVidia MX440" 
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/Cannot_get_TVOut_to_work%3A_NVidia_MX440_P86855/>

Also posted my non-working configuration files:  XF86Config, 
modules.conf, and the log output from /var/log/XFree86 for a failed load.

Hope the information helps the debugging effort;  or that someone can 
see the problem in config/log-messages.

Carl

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 01:12 US/Pacific, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 20:19 US/Pacific, Michael Janer wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't have the nvidia drivers installed
>>> Aww Crap!!!!!
>>> I ran the following lines:
>>>  # apt-get install nvidia-graphics-kmdl-$KERNEL
>>> # apt-get install nvidia-graphics-glx
>>> only the second one works, so I grabbed the first one off the site
>>>  and after editing the /etc/X11/XF86config
>>> Xwindows breaks
>>> and now after reverting to nv drivers I get
>>> the following after the sign in screen
>>
>>
>> Uh, of course it ain't gonna work if you only get the 
>> nvidia-graphics-glx part installed. You MUST have the kernel module 
>> installed also.
>>
>> Did you by chance reboot and not reset the KERNEL environment 
>> variable? It doesn't survive a reboot.
>>
>> Re-set it, try the apt-get again, and you should be in much better 
>> shape.
>
>
> I retract the statement that you should be in much better shape. Given 
> all the problems people have been experiencing lately, I decided to 
> start a bare-metal install of my own. The nvidia driver part is quite 
> badly broken from what it used to be, for some reason I have yet to 
> figure out. You can either install from nVidia's own shell script in 
> the mean time, or stay tuned for a fix tomorrow. I'm badly in need of 
> sleep right now...
>
> --Jarod
>
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