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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>>Ginsu Squirrel wrote:<br>
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>> I have my myth box connected to my TV with a DVI to HDMI cable. I get <br>
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>> no output on the TV until the X server has started (no post, no grub, no <br>
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>> kernel messages). I have 3 nvidia cards and one ati card. One nvidia <br>
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>> card, an 8400GS PCI-Express, doesn't have this problem but the other <br>
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>> cards, an nvidia 5200, an nvidia 5500, and an ATI 9600 do. Has anyone <br>
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>> seen this and is there a way to get output during boot?<br>
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>I have seen something similar...<br>
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>I wonder if your card is sending a signal that the TV can't display (80x25 <br>
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>text).<br>
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>If you have a DVI monitor you can see if the card is actually displaying during<br>
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>POST (I'm sure it is).<br>
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>If you switch to VT 1 (ctrl-alt-F1) does that display?<br>
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>If not then you may want to use the framebuffer console (fbcons) and switch<br>
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>resolution. My VT's now run at 1920x1280 :)<br>
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>You will need to alter grub to supply a vga= parameter. It still won't display<br>
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>POST but you'll see the boot sooner.<br>
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>(Nb fbcons also lets you run 'splashy' so you can have a pretty bootup sequence<br>
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>- good for a TV PC.)<br>
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>David<br>
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Along this line, last night I took my system and tried connecting it to my <br>
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37"LCD (Vizio VX37L). I have been testing on a 17" CRT.<br>
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I was able to see boot text (bios, grub etc.), however when it got to <br>
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starting Mythfrontend (I think) the screen went blank then it came back <br>
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with the login screen after a few seconds. Every time I tried rebooting/ <br>
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restarting it crashed approx when I think Mythfrontend was starting.<br>
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I found this in mythfrontend log(not exact - writing this up from work):<br>
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...... Switching to square mode ...<br>
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>mythfrontend: Fatal IO error: client killed <br>
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I had to boot into a failsafe terminal and re-install the NVIDIA drivers <br>
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(latest version - don't remember the number) to get things working again.<br>
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Why would plugging in a DVI to HDMI cable cause such a crash. I must <br>
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have something set up wrong, which I should fix before trying it again.<br>
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I have an ASUS NVIDIA 6200 video card, using 2.6.23.1x latest custom <br>
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kernel (with the patch for my Kworld 110 remote), mythbuntu.<br>
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Any thoughts on why this would happen?<br>
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