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

[Jim Abernathy]

On 01/10/2018 11:17 PM, David Hampton wrote:
> 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
Thanks,  the curious thing to me is the fact that people has been 
fighting this problem with XFCE desktops for years thru different 
versions and it's still a problem requiring a lot of knowledge to fix.  
But with Ubuntu Desktop it just works and has for many versions.

Jim A

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