[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[James Miller]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Scott Lipcon wrote:

> I also stopped xfsettingsd, and that prevented (one of the several) things
> that caused it to go to sleep/die when the TV was off.   However, there
> seems to be something with the ECS-X at least in where it doesn't even POST
> if the TV is not on at boot - its not a matter of X not starting/probing
> correctly, as I can't even ping the box if the TV isn't on at boot.
>
> To add to my previous message - a kernel update this weekend made things
> much worse.   Its very intermittent whether it boots with proper video,
> audio, or both - just rebooting it several times in a row I get different
> results.   If I use the kernel modeset options (video=HDMI-1:e) I get
> fairly consistent video, but never audio.   I spent several hours fighting
> it saturday, and eventually gave up and ran a 1/8" stereo cable out, and
> have abandoned HDMI audio for now.   I don't have a receiver in the bedroom
> anyway, so its good enough.

I don't know if this will be relevant since it doesn't even involve 
Mythtv. I recently got a Liva X and have only played around with it a 
little--not long enough even to install an operating system, let alone 
Mythtv. I've got an old monitor (LC-37HV4U--formerly part of an old 
two-component Sharp LCD TV system) I've been trying to hook up to the Liva 
X via its HDMI port, running to an HDMI-to-DVI adapter on the monitor: I 
just wanted to look at BIOS settings at this point. But I can't get the 
LIVA X to output to the monitor via the HDMI cable to HDMI-to-DVI adapter. 
It will output video (BIOS screen) via the VGA port to a different LCD 
monitor (don't have a VGA-to-DVI adapter to try that on the LC-37HV4U). I 
can, however, using the same HDMI-to-DVI adapter, view output from my 
laptop's HDMI port on the LC-37HV4U. Makes me wonder whether the Liva X 
might not have flaky HDMI hardware.

I'm hoping this won't be an issue for me since using the VGA port should 
work for my purposes: I already plan to use the Liva's audio output and 
not HDMI audio anyway, since this monitor isn't set up for audio via HDMI.