[mythtv-users] XvMC not working - Nvidia

[R. G. Newbury]

Damian Surr wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>> Damian Surr napsal(a):
>>   
>>> You may well be thinking along the right lines. Is there anything else 
>>> that could be causing this?
>>>   
>>>     
>> OK, so kill [gxk]dm and start a twm session (emergency, recovery, 
>> whatever your distro calls it).
>>   
> I'm afraid that makes no sense to me. I'll try to figure it out. I 
> thought I was starting to get my head around Linux commands, but [gxh]dm 
> and twm mean nothing to me. I'll try and get to where you were heading 
> though. I assume it's like 'safe mode' in windows.
>> You should get a black and white mottled background and a single xterm.  
>> Run glxgears and see what it says.
>>   

Try this: Ubuntu may be slightly different but I think not.

Open the file /etc/inittab

About 18 lines down you will see a line:
id:5:initdefault:

Change the '5' to a '3', save and reboot.

Now your system will come up in a console mode: no graphical window 
manager. Try running glxgears. It may or may not run in a console, 
depending on how the graphical bit is coded in.

Re-edit the file and reboot when you are done.

G
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