On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Chris Mathey wrote:
> 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)
That should be OK. We don't have an HDTV (analog 4:3 CRT), and I don't
think we pay for the HD dable channels. I got it to where no error shows up
in xorg.conf but it still crashes when starting X (TV flashes):
May 22 01:03:17 dvr gdm[3725]: WARNING: Didn't understand `' (expected true or false)
May 22 01:03:17 dvr kernel: [19696.782125] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
May 22 01:03:17 dvr kernel: [19696.782147] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
May 22 01:03:17 dvr kernel: [19696.782202] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
May 22 01:03:18 dvr kernel: [19697.409739] Xorg[3733]: segfault at fffffffc eip b7f9c58e esp bfbe4148 error 4
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