[mythtv-users] ECS Liva for frontend - brief report

[Jerry Rubinow]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
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>> Hoi Larry,
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>> Monday, June 29, 2015, 2:21:05 AM, you wrote:
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>> > On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Phil Wild <phil at holobyte.com.au> wrote:
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>> >> Encountered another issue under ubuntu 14.04.
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>> >> My LIVA is directly connected to the TV via HDMI. If I power cycle the
>> >> TV while the LIVA is connected and turned on, I lose my video signal.
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>> >> Resolved by ensuring xfsettingsd does not auto-start
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>> > Phil,  can you elaborate a bit more on what you did to fix this?  I also
>> > lose my video signal at times, depending on whether the connected A/V
>> > receiver is on.
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>> You can force that hdmi is enabled at boottime by adding to your
>> kernel bootstring in your bootloader:
>> modeset=1 video=HDMI-0:e
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>> Depending on your videocard and driver it can be HDMI-1
>> e stands for enable d for disable. It then shouldn't look wether it
>> can detect a screen.
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> I checked my Xorg log file for HDMI occurrences and only found references to
> "HDMI1," as opposed to "-0" or "-1."  So, I added a boot parameter as you
> suggested but used HDMI1.   The system booted up OK and now I just have to
> wait and see if it works.
>

Larry,

I've been having a different problem with the Liva (you may know me
from such popular threads as "Can't get lirc or irw to work, but mode2
works"), but in the course of trying to fix it, I upgraded my kernel
to 4.0 (running Ubuntu 15.04).  And new video seems to come back when:

- Liva goes to sleep and turns back on
- tv is turned off/on when connected directly to Liva
- receiver is turned off/on when tv is connected to Liva through receiver

I did not modify any boot parameters or make any changes to the stock
ubuntu install.  YMMV, but you might want to give this a try.

-Jerry