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<DIV>I have the same issue when I try and watch HDTV on my intel motherboard's built in card. However, if I have the backend and frontend started from a terminal windows I see a TON of errors? Something along the lines of resource not avail. Do you get errors?</DIV>
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<DIV>-Dwight<BR><BR>>>> On 01/07/2007 at 18:56, in message <1168225003.5140.3.camel@bill-laptop>, Bill Giannikos<bill2@vgcomputing.com.au> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 7px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f3f3f3">Hello All,<BR><BR>I have been trying to fix this problem for a while now but have yet to<BR>come up with a solution. I recently upgraded my machine to an Intel Core<BR>Duo 2 with a Geforce 8800GTS graphics card. For this card to work under<BR>Linux I need to use the latest nvidia proprietary drivers (version<BR>9746). However, in mythtv, whenever I try to watch tv or watch a<BR>recording all I get is a blank screen. I can hear the audio from the<BR>recording, but no picture.<BR><BR>This does not occur with mplayer, which can play video files (even<BR>mythtv recorded files) just fine.<BR><BR>I am using Fedora Core 6 with the latest atrpms packages.<BR><BR>The mythtv backend runs on a separate system.<BR><BR>I have played around with the settings in setup, turning anti-aliasing<BR>off, using opengl etc. but nothing helped. Tried a few xorg.conf options<BR>as well without success.<BR><BR>I am completely out of ideas so if anybody can help it will be greatly<BR>appreciated.<BR><BR>Here is the log from mythfrontend. The part that concerns me is the "X<BR>Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8" line.<BR><BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.477 Using runtime prefix = /usr<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.590 DPMS is active.<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.674 New DB connection, total: 1<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.733 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:<BR>htpc<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.734 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.778 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.794 Current Schema Version: 1160<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.794 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20060828-3<BR>www.mythtv.org<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:35.794 Enabled verbose msgs: important general<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:36.537 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:36.538 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:36.545 Switching to square mode (ProjectGrayhem)<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:36.558 Using the Qt painter<BR>mythtv: could not connect to socket<BR>mythtv: No such file or directory<BR>lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:37.073 Joystick disabled.<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:37.838 Loading<BR>from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T./base.xml<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:37.903 Loading<BR>from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.021 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.080 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media<BR>handler ext()<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.081 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media<BR>handler ext()<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.147 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 1/2 as a<BR>media handler ext()<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.148 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 2/2 as a<BR>media handler ext(gif,jpg,png)<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.274 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 1/2 as a<BR>media handler ext()<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.275 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 2/2 as a<BR>media handler ext(ogg,mp3,aac,flac)<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.337 New DB connection, total: 2<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:38.341 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:<BR>htpc<BR>Failed to bind for SIP connection 192.168.10.210<BR>SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address <BR>SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set<BR>Destroying SipFsm object <BR>2007-01-08 04:58:47.465 Connecting to backend server:<BR>192.168.10.252:6543 (try 1 of 5)<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:47.465 Using protocol version 31<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:47.549 TV: Attempting to change from None to<BR>WatchingLiveTV<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:47.550 Using protocol version 31<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:51.597 DPMS Deactivated <BR>[mpeg @ 0x4211fa30]Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:52.897 AFD: Opened codec 0x8398fb0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)<BR>type(Video)<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:52.918 AFD: Opened codec 0x8399300, id(MP2) type(Audio)<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:53.107 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.<BR>ALSA lib control.c:895:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:53.133 AudioOutput Warning: Mixer attach error -2: No<BR>such file or directory<BR> Check Mixer Name in Setup: '/dev/mixer'<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:53.155 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:53.155 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video<BR>Texture'<BR>X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8<BR> Major opcode: 140<BR> Minor opcode: 14<BR> Resource id: 0x197<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.354 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.354 New DB connection, total: 3<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.356 New DB connection, total: 4<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.380 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.600 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:<BR>htpc<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.600 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:<BR>htpc<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:54.710 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:55.610 RingBuf(/mnt/store/tv/1070_20070108045846.mpg):<BR>Waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available...<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:55.610 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program<BR>to switch to..<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:58.931 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to<BR>None<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:59.212 TV: Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None<BR>2007-01-08 04:58:59.219 DPMS Reactivated.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Cheers,<BR>Bill<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing list<BR>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi">http://mythtv.org/cgi</A>-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>