[mythtv-users] View console on TV while MythTV running

[trev]

Hi

Sorry to hear it did not work, I found the relevant mail:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/99237?search_string=console;#99237

if you look at the link below mentioned in the messages.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10

There is some more detail on what you can set vga to, which may help.
I assume you know, but just in case you don't you need to reboot your computer 
afer running lilo.

Hope this additional information gets you sorted out.

best Regards

Trev

On Wednesday 16 Mar 2005 12:23, John Mangan wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion but I tried that. It didn't make a jot of
> difference (and I did remember to run lilo after editing the lilo.conf -
> eventually).
>
> Trev wrote:
> Hi
> To get the console unscrambled you need to set:
>
> vga=normal
>
> in lilo.conf which is usually in /etc
> don't forget to run lilo after editing the file.
> I believe that there is a similar setting in grub if you use that, but I am
> not familiar with that boot up system.
> As you mentioned this has been mentioned previously, I came accross it when
> trying to set up a sytem using an nVidea MX440 TVout to drive the tv and
> the VGAout to drive a monitor for web surfing.
> This problem also occurs on the monitor when going to a terminal.
>
> Hope this fixes your problem and you get MythTv working successfully.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Trev
>
> On Wednesday 16 Mar 2005 07:12, John Mangan wrote:
> >I hope this hasn't been answered a hundred times before but I searched the
> >archive without success.
> >
> >I am using Knoppmyth to run a test system with MythTv. I am using an
> > nVidia 5200 card with TVOut. It works fine but since I am still testing
> > it would be nice to be able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console (XTerm is too
> > small/fuzzy to be really workable). However when I change to the console
> > screen I just get scrambled lines as though the horizontal hold has gone.
> >
> >I am not familiar enough with the XF86Config-4 file to know what needs to
> >be changed (and I'm not sure that's where the problem lies since X
> > displays perfectly well). Also the text output during bootup displays
> > perfectly well.