[mythtv-users] TW2815 chipset

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 17:05:30 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 11:13 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Mythizens, I'm trying to get a zoneminder system up on a
>> Ubuntu 12.04 lts desktop. I received a cctv card that works with linux
>> according to the E-Bay listing. I popped it into a modest Bio-star
>> mobo, turned the pc on, selected Ubuntu, from grub, after which the
>> "no signal" prompt appeared on the display. Could this be, as the
>> vendor now says that "Firstly,this card does not fits Linux" or did
>> ubuntu think this was a graphics card (PCI) and stopped outputting
>> from the onboard graphics?
>
>
> Sounds like you had a hard coded xorg.conf, and when the new PCI card was
> added, the address of the old graphics card changed.
>
>
>> Does anyone know if the TW2815 chipset is recognized by V4L?
>
>
> If it isn't in the kernel, there at least seems to be some form of driver
> here...
>
> https://github.com/openlinux/Drv/tree/master/drv-hi3511/tw2815
>
> Now whether it exposes V4L, or supports your specific card, I couldn't say.
> I would expect the code to contain at least some mention of V4L if it did.
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Sounds like you had a hard coded xorg.conf, and when the new PCI card was
> added, the address of the old graphics card changed.

Is there any way to tell the system to stay with the onboard graphics,
so I can have a display while I configure the cctv capture card?


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