[mythtv-users] Video card update fail
Allen Edwards
allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 00:14:31 UTC 2018
On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:47 PM Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 6:18 PM Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My system is using a Nvidia 6200. DVI out to the TV and analog to a
>> monitor. I am running Mythbuntu 16 on an old AMD 5400. Sound is analog to
>> the TV and SPDIF to a surround system we use for a few shows.
>>
>> After many hours I kind of got the new Nvidia 750ti card working. I
>> could not get the onboard audio to work no matter what my son and I tried
>> and he is a Google software engineer so it stumped us both. I had to cut
>> down a HDMI connector to get the cable to fit but with that and several
>> hours I got sound to the TV. Not a permanent solution as no digital sound
>> to the surround system.
>>
>
> You should have immediately returned the card if HDMI did not fit.
>
The interference was with my case, not the video card. Plus, the card was a
gift from a friend. I just used a grinder and took off the side of the
connector and it fit fine :-)
>
>
>
>> The final straw was that when I turned off the TV and turned it back on,
>> Myth was on the monitor and not on the TV. I tried both checkboxes on the
>> find new devices and both acted the same. The driver at that point was
>> 340. The other choice was 361 which I used at first but switched at some
>> point to get a picture to display. Lots of trouble with the video card
>> reading the TV EDIT wrong and sending out incorrect settings which would
>> not display at all. Not sure if the driver was the issue but long story
>> short, I ended up with the 340 driver.
>>
>> Finally I took out the 750ti and reinstalled my 6200 and sound works,
>> myth doesn't switch when the TV is off. Only issue is I got a little
>> better picture quality with the 750 on VDPAU slim. Any higher level setting
>> just crashed myth.
>>
>> I am 7 hours into getting nothing done. Two of us working most of that
>> time. If anyone knows how to solve my problem I will put a few more hours
>> into it.
>>
>> By the way, on the sound, we tried at least three audio managers, Alsa,
>> Pulse, and one command line one to try and get audio out of the
>> motherboard. Nothing worked.
>>
>
> What does the speaker test produce in alsa and/or gnome/kde, etc.. I
> believe long ago, Jean Yvess (sp?) killed pulse when mythfrontend started
> playback, but I do not know if that is still the case. You definitely do
> not want anything except alsa for digital audio.
>
> Also, when selecting the different modes from the TV GUI, I always had to
> restart mythfrontend (that was long ago though - YMMV).
>
I have to think if I restarted more or less than 100 times. Clearly the
video needs a restart.
Allen
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