[mythtv-users] Problems with Nvidia 7050 S-Video setup after Debian upgrade.

[George Mari]

On 09/26/2012 09:00 AM, stuart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wanted to toss this out here to see if I am missing something.
>
> I performed a much needed Linux / Debian upgrade on my Mythtv master and
> slave backends.  The master has been back up and running for weeks now,
> but the Debian slave has never recovered from the upgrade.
>
> The Debian slave upgrade went really badly and I have only recently got
> the eth0 port working simply be purging and re-installing Debian
> packages.  The current problem involves executing "startx".  Most of the
> time the Debian slave locks up to the point where I can not even ssh
> into it.
>
> I have poured over the files in /var/log and have yet to see the
> problem.  The latest theory is that there may be an ACPI problem.  But
> after about a dozen boots where I set "acpi=off" I am starting to doubt
> that.
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Have you looked into Xorg.0.log in /var/log?  I'm on Fedora, so I'm not 
sure if you would have exactly the same file in Debian.