[mythtv-users] FC2 and Jarod's guide Woes

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 16 21:06:04 UTC 2004



Vincent K. Britton wrote:

>I wanted to upgrade to the newest version of the nvidia drivers and MythTV.
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>I figured since the installation went so well the first time why not just reformat and reinstall.
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>I haven't had any luck watching tv on it yet.  The front end starts but when I try to watch live TV it appears to hang and I can do nothing with the keyboard.  If I telnet to that box I see X running at 100%.  All I can do is telnet in and reboot.  
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>On the installation I had some troubles with the nvidia drivers?  X won't start with "nvidia" in the xorg.conf as the Driver.  I had to change it to "nv" to get X to start.  I don't know if the 2 problems are related but I thought I'd mention it.
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>In case it is relivant I will append my xorg.conf and and modprobe.conf.  I think there may be something of interest in the console window from which I start mythtfrontend.  However since X crashes/becomes hung I can't see it.  Is there a way to start mythtfronted while outputing the info to a text file?
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>Nothing of interest shows up in the mythbackend.log file either.
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>Any help/Guidance would be greatly appreciated!!
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I had problems installing the new nvidia6111 drivers on my FC2/AMD64. 
However, using nv still worked.
Does mplayer work?

brad


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