[mythtv-users] Mythtv/gentoo hangs when playing live or recorded video

chris at cpr.homelinux.net chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Fri Nov 11 12:58:58 EST 2005


On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:49:54AM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote:
> chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> >In the case of the XBox (Xebian 1.1.4 with Debian updates) I managed to
> >find a site with a Fedora driver for the xbox and so I copied the driver
> >and xorg.conf over the broken Debian versions and with a little tweaking
> >managed to get it running again.

> If you could post some details around that, I would be forever in your 
> debt.

OK.  My bank account number is... :-)

I downloaded the XFedora-XOrg.tar.bz2 file from 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54192&package_id=141823 
and unpacked it in a temporary directory.  The bzip includes a 
replacement X11 server executable, an nvxbox_drv.o module for the 
server and a replacement xorg.conf file that loads the module.  It also 
includes an install.sh file that will install the new files for you, 
but since Xebian uses a different directory layout than Fedora the 
xorg.conf will not work AS-IS.  I copied the font information from the 
Xebian xorg.conf into the Fedora xorg.conf and merged the two module 
sections so that all of the extensions would be available.  Finally I 
trimmed the modes since I only use 640x480x24 anyway.  (I'd paste the 
resulting xorg.conf into this email except I'm at work and my XBox is 
shut down so I can't ssh into it.  I can post it later if you want.)  
When you start the X server the screen will flicker for a *LONG* time 
but eventually it comes up OK.  The log shows a warning that the V_BIOS 
was not found, but that doesn't seem to inhibit normal use.

I would *strongly* suggest disabling autologin as well as any login 
scripts that automatically launch X while testing the installation so 
that if the machine locks up you will be able to reboot to a console or 
ssh in to fix it.  I configured my XBox so that it does the autologin 
in runlevel 5, so for testing it was as easy as changing the inittab so 
it boots to runlevel 2.



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