[mythtv-users] ECS Liva for frontend - brief report

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 02:11:00 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>> Encountered another issue under ubuntu 14.04.
>>>>
>>>> My LIVA is directly connected to the TV via HDMI. If I power cycle the
>>>> TV while the LIVA is connected and turned on, I lose my video signal.
>>>>
>>>> Resolved by ensuring xfsettingsd does not auto-start
>>>>
>>> Phil,  can you elaborate a bit more on what you did to fix this?  I also
>>> lose my video signal at times, depending on whether the connected A/V
>>> receiver is on.
>>
>>
>> You can force that hdmi is enabled at boottime by adding to your
>> kernel bootstring in your bootloader:
>> modeset=1 video=HDMI-0:e
>>
>> Depending on your videocard and driver it can be HDMI-1
>> e stands for enable d for disable. It then shouldn't look wether it
>> can detect a screen.
>>
>> Tot mails,
>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> I haven't tried this yet, but this seems to be a very simple solution to the
> video signal problem ...
>
> http://extremelycashpoor.com/2014/11/ecs-liva-setup-part-3/
> (I assume it works as we're all talking about the same hardware)
>

that page appears to be down, mind rehashing what it said to do?


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