[mythtv-users] ECS Liva Help

[Ken Mink]

Disregard. My fault.

I had a microusb brick sitting on my project bench from a previous 
project, so I just used it on the Liva. It was underpowered. Switched to 
the one that shipped with it and all is good. Lesson learned.


On 03/31/2015 02:39 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 31/03/15 19:11, Ken Mink wrote:
>> I purchased a ECS Liva (not X) to test drive for use as a FE system. I
>> am getting nowhere on the install. I have the kb, mouse and usb drive on
>> a powered hub. I am trying to use Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop for installation.
>> The problem I am having is that as soon as the installer tries to go
>> graphical mode, the Liva reboots. No errors or anything on the screen.
>> It just goes black and few seconds later, the bios screen shows up.
>>
>> I have also tried using SystemRescueCD, with the same results. I see all
>> the startup messages scroll by. When it goes start the graphical
>> desktop; reboot. If I have it go to text mode only, it's fine. A startx
>> will cause a reboot.
>>
>> I have tried it on a couple different televisions and it's now connected
>> to a monitor and all show the same results. Do I have a bum unit? Is
>> there something I'm missing for booting; kernel parameters, etc? Any
>> thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken
>
> I think I've seen this sort of thing in the past with nvidia hardware 
> when the installed GL or GLX has not been an nvidia-sourced version 
> matching the nvidia driver.  If you can see Xorg.0.log that might help.
>
> John
>
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