Re: [SLUG] X on TV

From: Chris Mathey (slug@mathey.org)
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 07:23:50 EDT


Eben King wrote:
> I'm trying to bring up a MythTV system (it's an Athlon 1.5 GHz, 1.5
> MiB RAM), and an important step is getting a pretty fast video card.
> So I have an EVGA GeForce 6200 (no fan, passive cooling only), and I'm
> trying to use the Nvidia binary-only driver.
>
> I tried using with the OS-installed driver; that didn't work[1], so I
> downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.51-pkg1.run and installed that. That
> didn't work either, so I decided to look at and optionally clean up
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I changed some names (and matched the changes, I
> think) to make it easier to understand. I simplifed the file by
> removing references to the (unused) second monitor. No change. I
> found some double-quotes that either weren't there or were in the
> wrong place. I fixed them, no change. So I'm asking. Anyone see a
> reason this won't work? The file (minus commented lines) is here:
>
> http://royalty.mine.nu:81/dvr.xorg.conf
>
> An xorg log from a failed run is here:
>
> http://royalty.mine.nu:81/dvr.Xorg.0.log.gz
>
> [1] Throughout, "doesn't work" means "when I start gdm, it runs and
> fails a
> few times then offers to choose a new video driver".
>
It doesn't look like you have enough cpu/video card to play HD content
(i.e x264 in .mkv container)

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