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

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 14:50:01 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> >
> > Steve, running a plain ubuntu 15.04 install, I found my LIVA would keep
> the
> > hdmi connection alive.  It would last through turning the TV off and on
> and
> > also through turning the A/V receiver off and on (and switching
> inputs).  I
> > didn't have to modify the kernel boot string or anything else - it just
> > worked.  YMMV, but worth trying.
> >
> > -Jerry
>
> Interesting. I've got 14.04 installed. It appears the issue I'm having
> may be slightly different. Through our Denon receiver it does not open
> up the HDMI connection, however connected directly to the TV it does.
> I normally have an NVidia GT220 connected, and know that the Denon
> passes along it's own EDID, and I've captured the TV's EDID and "force
> fed" it to the NVidia driver to get it to work "best".
>
> I'm now wondering if the issue is I need to take this captured EDID
> bin and figure out how to "force" the Intel driver to use it and
> ignore the EDID the Denon passes along?
>
> In case anyone has done such a thing and can supply some help? thanks!
>

My receiver is a Denon AVR-2112 and I had similar problems with 14.04, but
15.04 seems to work out of the box.

-Jerry
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