[mythtv-users] benefits of one Ubuntu Distro vs. another for FE

David Hampton mythtv at love2code.net
Thu Jan 11 04:17:54 UTC 2018


On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 20:32 +0000, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> On another NUC in another room, I installed Xubuntu 16.04.3  Desktop
> completely and setup all the power and screen options the best I
> could to not turn anything off.  But on that computer, If I cut off
> the A/V receiver the NUC is connected to, the screen never comes
> back.  I couldn’t solve this quickly so I put the full Ubuntu 16.04.3
> Desktop and removed Libreoffice.  This system now works correctly
> when I turn off the A/V receiver without confusing the NUC.

TV vs A/V receiver?  My guess would be that the TV only sleeps and
"turning it off" doesn't affect the signals on the HDMI cable, whereas
turning off the A/V receiver truly drops all signal on the HDMI.  I had
similar behavior on my Nvidia based NUC connected to an A/V receiver. 
Its been a couple of years, but IIRC what fixed it was forcing the card
to only ever use a single output connector, instead of switching to
another connector when the HDMI dropped.  The device section of my
xorg.conf file looks like this:

Section "Device"
	Driver	"nvidia"
	Option	"ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-1"
	Option	"UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-1
EndSection

Hope this helps. YMMV.

David



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