[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[James Miller]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, James Miller wrote:

> I don't know if this will be relevant since it doesn't even involve Mythtv. I 
> recently got a Liva X and have only played around with it a little--not long 
> enough even to install an operating system, let alone Mythtv. I've got an old 
> monitor (LC-37HV4U--formerly part of an old two-component Sharp LCD TV 
> system) I've been trying to hook up to the Liva X via its HDMI port, running 
> to an HDMI-to-DVI adapter on the monitor: I just wanted to look at BIOS 
> settings at this point. But I can't get the LIVA X to output to the monitor

Looks like there's some crow on the menu for me. I fiddled around with the 
unit a bit more yesterday and it seems what I said about video output via 
the HDMI port was wrong. It takes a number of seconds (10-20?) during 
which the monitor displays a "loss of sync" message, until the video 
output via the HDMI port will display. But it does eventually display 
video. I was able to view BIOS settings in my experiments yesterday, as 
well as to boot the unit into a live-OS environment (tried Bodhi). So 
apparently I was not waiting long enough in my initial testing, and took 
the rather lengthy display of the "loss of sync" message as an indication 
that no display would come through the HDMI port.

I decided to do a bit of further testing on the unit while booted into the 
Bodhi live environment to see whether I could replicate any of the display 
issues the last poster in this thread had mentioned. I let the OS blank 
the monitor after a period of inactivity in order to see whether I would 
have any problem getting the display back. I had no issues with that: 
whether the monitor was left powered on while blanked, or whether it was 
powered off, then powered on again some minutes later, I was able to get 
the display back simply by moving the mouse or by pressing a key on the 
keyboard. So I was unable to replicate, using a different distro, the 
issue that user had reported with this hardware.