[mythtv-users] TW2815 chipset

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 18:25:29 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:07 PM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:56 -0500, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> 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.
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> Try the BIOS setup..or do you not get any POST ?
> In BIOS set the graphics boot priority...
> Maybe the BIOS thinks it is a graphics device & boots it..
>
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I just looked in the BIOS setup, I guess I don't get POST, I didn't
see anything like that anywhere.


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