[mythtv-users] Losing S-Video after about 20+ minutes?

[Nick Morrott]

On 17/12/06, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> I just separated my FE and BE in to two different machines.  With the
> new machine (a shuttle) as the front end, everything is working
> beautifully aside from a couple of remote related issues (lircd).
>
> However, after watching for 20+ minutes (it happened twice, so far), the
> screen goes blank.  The machine is connected only to a TV via S-Video.
>
> I can connect in to the machine via VNC and see the everything as it
> should be.  If I switch to runlevel 3, then back to 5 again, S-Video
> comes back.
>
> As an aside, the video card is *exactly* the same card that was in my
> FE/BE system.  I pulled the video card and put it in this FE-only machine.
>
> Any ideas?  I made sure there is no screensaver running.. I just don't
> know where else to look.

Does the same still occur if you run:

# /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
# /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off

on the frontend?

Nick

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