[mythtv-users] Re: Trouble installing k3b

Christopher McEwan christopher.mcewan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 14:47:37 UTC 2004


If you change the driver setting in this bit

Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Videocard0"
       Driver      "nvidia"
       VendorName  "AOpen"
       BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
       Option      "RenderAccel" "1"
       # TV Out Setup
       Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
       Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
       Option      "TVOverScan" "0.6"
EndSection


To


Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Videocard0"
       Driver      "nv"
       VendorName  "AOpen"
       BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
       #Option      "RenderAccel" "1"
       # TV Out Setup
       #Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
       #Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
       #Option      "TVOverScan" "0.6"
EndSection


That should give you your X back in a good enough state to then
investigate re-applying the nvidia kernel drivers, at which point you
can switch it back from nv to nvidia.

Hope that helps

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:54:25 +0100, Axel Thimm <axel.thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:28:06AM -0600, Lane Schwartz wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:20:46 +0100, Axel Thimm <axel.thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:32:02PM -0600, Lane Schwartz wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:54:35 -0600, Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:48:05 +0100, Axel Thimm <axel.thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > > > Running apt-get dist-upgrade now.... Hopefully this'll do it. :)
> 
> > > > Unfortunately, when I rebooted, X decided that it didn't want to
> > > > start.
> > > >
> > > > I can log in remotely, and I've verified that mythbackend is still
> > > > running fine. Not sure at this point whether it'll be simpler to try
> > > > and debug this or whether I should go for a reinstall. Hmm...
> > >
> > > Better debug. Did you have the nvidia drivers installed (and
> > > upgraded)? Otherwise could you have a look in X's log to see where the
> > > X server crashed? I'm quite sure it's nvidia and then it's my fault.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions. Sorry for the delay - I was gone this
> > weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday.
> >
> > I believe I did have the nvidia drivers installed prior to doing an
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > Looking through synaptic, here are the nvidia rpms that I have installed:
> >
> > kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629-2.6.8-1.521
> > kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629-2.6.8-1.521smp
> > nvidia-graphics4363-libs
> > nvidia-graphics6106-libs
> > nvidia-graphics6629
> > nvidia-graphics6629-libs
> > nvidia-graphics-helpers
> 
> Did you call
> 
> nvidia-graphics-switch 6629
> 
> Are all rpms up to date (or does apt-get upgrade suggest updating
> nvidia)?
> 
> > Hope we can get this figured out. Otherwise, I'll probably do a
> > reinstall tonight or tomorrow.
> 
> I don't think that will be neccessary only for fixing up the nvidia
> issues. Make sure you have the latest rpms and the
> nvidia-graphics-switch chooses the right driver. Then reload the
> nvidia kernel module and restart X (or simply reboot).
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
> 
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Regards,


~CM


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