[mythtv-users] Mythtv/gentoo hangs when playing live or recorded video

[Tom Lichti]

chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:49:54AM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote:
>   
>> chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
>>     
>>> In the case of the XBox (Xebian 1.1.4 with Debian updates) I managed to
>>> find a site with a Fedora driver for the xbox and so I copied the driver
>>> and xorg.conf over the broken Debian versions and with a little tweaking
>>> managed to get it running again.
>>>       
>
>   
>> If you could post some details around that, I would be forever in your 
>> debt.
>>     
>
> OK.  My bank account number is... :-)
>
> I downloaded the XFedora-XOrg.tar.bz2 file from 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54192&package_id=141823 
> and unpacked it in a temporary directory.  The bzip includes a 
> replacement X11 server executable, an nvxbox_drv.o module for the 
> server and a replacement xorg.conf file that loads the module.  It also 
> includes an install.sh file that will install the new files for you, 
> but since Xebian uses a different directory layout than Fedora the 
> xorg.conf will not work AS-IS.  I copied the font information from the 
> Xebian xorg.conf into the Fedora xorg.conf and merged the two module 
> sections so that all of the extensions would be available.  Finally I 
> trimmed the modes since I only use 640x480x24 anyway.  (I'd paste the 
> resulting xorg.conf into this email except I'm at work and my XBox is 
> shut down so I can't ssh into it.  I can post it later if you want.)  
>   
If you could, that would be most helpful. I only use that resolution as 
well.
> When you start the X server the screen will flicker for a *LONG* time 
> but eventually it comes up OK.  The log shows a warning that the V_BIOS 
> was not found, but that doesn't seem to inhibit normal use.
>   
I think mine did that even with Xfree.
> I would *strongly* suggest disabling autologin as well as any login 
> scripts that automatically launch X while testing the installation so 
> that if the machine locks up you will be able to reboot to a console or 
> ssh in to fix it.  I configured my XBox so that it does the autologin 
> in runlevel 5, so for testing it was as easy as changing the inittab so 
> it boots to runlevel 2.
>   

Yep, mine currently does not autologin, so I'm cool there.

Thanks!

Tom