[mythtv-users] Newest KDE & Geforce 4 mmx 440 tv-out

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:14, RJM Bardoel wrote:
> I have mythtv 0.14 and fedora I running on a PIII 550 Mhz, 512 SDRAM,
> PVR 350 and a Geforce 4 mmx 440. I know there have been some issues
> about this in the past, but i can't find the right solutions
> anywhere. When i run my pvr through my tv, everything goes perfect,
> but when X starts KDE hangs en doesn't start kicker. I have done
> everything, but i can't solve the problem. I heard that a lot of
> users use this card, so i hope that someone has got the right
> solution!

I used to have the same problem on RH8; KDE would hang trying to start 
kicker.  The workaround is to get a shell and kill kicker (or the 
kdeinit process responsible for starting kicker); then KDE startup 
continues normally.  You could then start kicker manually from a 
terminal and it would come up fine.

The odd thing was this was only a problem when I was running on a remote 
XDMCP terminal, so wasn't the Nvidia card or driver at fault (the 
remote display was a PowerMac)

I never did solve the problem, and I've since upgraded my Myth box to 
FC1.  I also now have a separate file, web & mail server, so no need to 
run KDE on my Myth box.  A previous post I read suggested the problem 
might have been related to a missing X-extension on the display.  
Sounds plausible, at least.

-JAC