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Thanks to Thunderbird from nvnews.org who wrote:<BR>
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You need to add the line:<BR>
Load "extmod" to the module section, then Xvideo will be loaded.<BR>
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On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 11:19 +1300, Richard Horton wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I am installing MythTV on an x86_64 box running FC6, using Jarod</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Wilson's excellent how-to.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have an nvidia 7950 card, and I have installed the drivers from his</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">rpms, (and previously also from the installer on the Nvidia website,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">which gave the same results).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">My problem is that I am not getting xvideo on the nvidia 7950 card in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the system. Specifically:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I can't run mplayer with -vo xv. When I do, it fails with the message</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in output A below. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">When I run myth and watch tv, the output B shows that there is also a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">problem initialising xvideo.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have also posted a copy of my xorg.conf below, with (hopefully) all of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the relevant bits intact.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks to Stroller, who said:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I _think_ this indicates that your graphics card drivers don't support</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hardware acceleration.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I am fairly sure that this card does, as it is modern and high end.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Having said that, I can't find anything on the net one way or another.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Have you installed the binary nVidia drivers?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>If you're using Fedora, following the instructions at Mr Wilson's site</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">then I observe the following installation method advised:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> #yum -y install nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-$KVER</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> # yum -y install nvidia-graphics9746-libs nvidia-graphics9746</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes. Originally I installed these using the .run file downloaded from</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Nvidia, and then at your suggestion using Jarod's links. The result is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the same.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>What does your xorg.conf say? Is Xvideo specified in there? Posing a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">copy of your xorg.conf might elicit a response from someone more </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">clueful than I.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There is no xvideo specified in there. Should there be?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have reposted this message as it got fragmented, and I wanted someone</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to be able to see the progress without having to trawl too far.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Any comments or help would be appreciated.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Richard Horton.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Output A - mplayer fails on -vo xv:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 version/driver</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[VO_XV] ******** Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl *********</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Output B - myth fails to start in xvideo mode:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.368 VideoOutputXv Error: XVideo output requested,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but is not supported by display.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.369 AFD: Opened codec 0x6bcc710, id(MPEG2VIDEO)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">type(Video)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.398 AFD: Opened codec 0x6bd66e0, id(MP2) type(Audio)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.458 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.I am</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">installing MythTV on an x86_64 box running FC6, using Jarod</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Wilson's excellent how-to.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have an nvidia 7950 card, and I have installed the drivers from his</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">rpms, (and previously also from the installer on the Nvidia website,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">which gave the same results).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">My problem is that I am not getting xvideo on the nvidia 7950 card in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the system. Specifically:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I can't run mplayer with -vo xv. When I do, it fails with the message</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in output A below. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">When I run myth and watch tv, the output B shows that there is also a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">problem initialising xvideo.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have also posted a copy of my xorg.conf below, with (hopefully) all of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the relevant bits intact.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks to Stroller, who said:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I _think_ this indicates that your graphics card drivers don't support</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hardware acceleration.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I am fairly sure that this card does, as it is modern and high end.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Having said that, I can't find anything on the net one way or another.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Have you installed the binary nVidia drivers?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>If you're using Fedora, following the instructions at Mr Wilson's site</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">then I observe the following installation method advised:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> #yum -y install nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-$KVER</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> # yum -y install nvidia-graphics9746-libs nvidia-graphics9746</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes. Originally I installed these using the .run file downloaded from</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Nvidia, and then at your suggestion using Jarod's links. The result is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the same.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>What does your xorg.conf say? Is Xvideo specified in there? Posing a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">copy of your xorg.conf might elicit a response from someone more </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">clueful than I.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There is no xvideo specified in there. Should there be?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have reposted this message as it got fragmented, and I wanted someone</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to be able to see the progress without having to trawl too far.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Any comments or help would be appreciated.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Richard Horton.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Output A - mplayer fails on -vo xv:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 version/driver</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[VO_XV] ******** Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl *********</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Output B - myth fails to start in xvideo mode:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.368 VideoOutputXv Error: XVideo output requested,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but is not supported by display.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.369 AFD: Opened codec 0x6bcc710, id(MPEG2VIDEO)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">type(Video)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.398 AFD: Opened codec 0x6bd66e0, id(MP2) type(Audio)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.458 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.515 VideoOutputXv Error: XVideo output requested,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but is not supported by display.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.517 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.517 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">video output.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> *** May be slow ***</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">xorg.conf:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Fri Dec 15</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">10:40:27 PST 2006</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Files"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Module"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Load "glx"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Load "v4l"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Monitor"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Identifier "Monitor0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> VendorName "Unknown"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModelName "Unknown"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Option "DPMS"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Device"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Identifier "Videocard0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Driver "nvidia"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Screen"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Identifier "Screen0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Device "Videocard0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Monitor "Monitor0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> DefaultDepth 24</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> SubSection "Display"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Viewport 0 0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Depth 24</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> EndSubSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.515 VideoOutputXv Error: XVideo output requested,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but is not supported by display.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.517 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2007-02-07 20:06:06.517 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">video output.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> *** May be slow ***</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">xorg.conf:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Fri Dec 15</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">10:40:27 PST 2006</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Files"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Module"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Load "glx"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Load "v4l"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Monitor"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Identifier "Monitor0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> VendorName "Unknown"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ModelName "Unknown"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Option "DPMS"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Device"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Identifier "Videocard0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Driver "nvidia"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Section "Screen"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Identifier "Screen0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Device "Videocard0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Monitor "Monitor0"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> DefaultDepth 24</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> SubSection "Display"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Viewport 0 0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Depth 24</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> EndSubSection</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">EndSection</FONT>
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