[mythtv-users] TW2815 chipset

[Daryl McDonald]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:50 PM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:05 -0500, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> 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?
>> ____
>
> The mobo chipsets on mATX do not (typically) support discrete & chipset
> graphics together.
> For example the intel Hnn chipsets (where nn==67,77 etc) do not support
> mobo chipset GPU & discrete concurrently.
>
> You can set the BIOS graphics device boot priority.
>
> When you say PCI do you mean PCIexpress?
>
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When you say PCI do you mean PCIexpress?
No, the cctv card is PCI. I was wondering if putting a HD graphics
card in the PCIe x16 slot would give display with the cctv card loaded
in the PCI slot. Or any other method to keep display with the cctv
card installed.