[mythtv-users] Fedora 7, is all in order yet?

Mike LaPlante mike at dividia.net
Wed Jun 13 13:46:00 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:09:00PM -0500, Mike LaPlante wrote:
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>> Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:53:32PM -0500, Mike LaPlante wrote:
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>>>> Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>>>>> Yeah, at home for lunch now testing nv VS nvidia modules, either way 
>>>>>> things don't work right. So I'd say Fedora 7 is NOT "all in order" in 
>>>>>> response to the OP's question, at least not when it comes to nvidia+myth.
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>>>>> nvidia on F7 works here quite fine, have you tried the ATrpms' kmdl
>>>>> packages for nvidia?
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>>>> Yeah I'm using ATrpms 9755. In fact lately the only repo I leave 
>>>> permanently enabled on my myth boxes is ATrpms. I ran into some trouble 
>>>> with a freshrpms or livna x264 package screwing up my mytharchive. So 
>>>> now-a-days I do an --enablerepo for the few packages I can't get off 
>>>> ATrpms.
>>>>
>>>> Anyhoo, my symptons are as follows:
>>>> -- with X running on the nvidia 9755 module and kernel 2.6.21-1.3194 as 
>>>> soon as I start mythfrontend the X server crashes and I'm brought back 
>>>> to a GDM login.
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>>>>         
>>> Any errors in the logs? Can you run glxgears with acceptable
>>> performance and no crash?
>>>
>>> (BTW what hardware was that? Maybe you need a legacy driver?)
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>>>> -- with X running on the nv module mythfrontend starts but looks like 
>>>> its in 8 colors. Then when I exit myth X restarts.
>>>> -- with X running on the nvidia module and Xinerama enabled, 
>>>> mythfrontend segfaults... (I'm not really sure if myth CAN run with 
>>>> Xinerama enabled, never tried, but this particular frontend is a dual 
>>>> monitor machine in a spare room.)
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>>> I know that xinerama/twinview can't share xv across the screens (at
>>> least I think I know that), so that could be an issue.
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>>>> It's possible none of that is related to the kernel bug mentioned in 
>>>> this thread, but I kind of gave up trouble shooting it until a new 
>>>> kernel is released. Been patiently waiting for that to happen for a 
>>>> little over a week now.
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>> You were right, glx wasn't properly setup. I never really thought to 
>> check. I had run the nvidia-graphics-switch, and I was seeing the Nvidia 
>> logo when X started, so I just kind of ass-u-me-d nvidia was all setup. 
>> I ended up comparing my FC6 xorg.conf to my F7 and copied and pasted 
>> these 3 lines into the F7 xorg.conf
>>
>>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
>>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>>
>> Under the Files section. I could be mistaken but I think the 
>> graphics-switch thing is supposed to add those. I don't remember ever 
>> having to do that.
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>
> No, this happens only at package installation time. But maybe I should
> add it to the nvidia-graphics-switch.
>
>   
I noticed my yum update had a nvidia-graphics-helper package pulled from 
atrpms-bleeding last night. Just thought I'd let you know after that 
upgrade the 3 lines mentioned above were no longer in my xorg.conf.

Mike


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