Has any one tried 2.6.17-3. 2.6.8.1 (sarge i386) keeps crashing on boot with a GF FX5200se agp card on an i845 mobo (onboard vga disabled). However booting with on board graphics enabled is fine. Strangely running X with Xinerama with both on board and the FX5200 and two monitors works like a charm - except for tvout on the FX5200
Was wondering wether to use 2.6..17-3 or 2.6.16-20.
On Monday 03 July 2006 02:37 pm, jtd wrote:
Has any one tried 2.6.17-3. 2.6.8.1 (sarge i386) keeps crashing on boot with a GF FX5200se agp card on an i845 mobo (onboard vga disabled). However booting with on board graphics enabled is fine. Strangely running X with Xinerama with both on board and the FX5200 and two monitors works like a charm - except for tvout on the FX5200
Booting with 2.4.27 solved the crash on boot problem. Using vesa driver instead of nv in X got the tv out working (clone mode). So now i can use the tv as a fuzzy monitor. But vlc works great. Next will try nvidia drivers on 2.6.17-3 and 2.4.27. BTW Suse 10.1 with a 2.6.13 kernel also crashes.
On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:21, jtd wrote:
Booting with 2.4.27 solved the crash on boot problem. Using vesa driver instead of nv in X got the tv out working (clone mode). So now i can use the tv as a fuzzy monitor. But vlc works great. Next will try nvidia drivers on 2.6.17-3 and 2.4.27. BTW Suse 10.1 with a 2.6.13 kernel also crashes.
Why not try an older, more stable kernel? Bleeding edge kernels tend to crash...
On Thursday 06 July 2006 06:31 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:21, jtd wrote:
Booting with 2.4.27 solved the crash on boot problem. Using vesa driver instead of nv in X got the tv out working (clone mode). So now i can use the tv as a fuzzy monitor. But vlc works great. Next will try nvidia drivers on 2.6.17-3 and 2.4.27. BTW Suse 10.1 with a 2.6.13 kernel also crashes.
Why not try an older, more stable kernel? Bleeding edge kernels tend to crash...
Need the bleeding edge for trying out nvidia drivers - they are closed. I will only be testing and then seeing what needs to be tweaked with the open nv drivers. Basically just building a home entertainment box. Problem is that my mom and dad need to operate it with a remote. So lotsa lirc stuff and tv mode. It rocks as it is, but asking mom to fire up a shell and type in some commands is a nono - for now. Had to install lidvdcss2 for playing those drmd shit.
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:05:05AM +0530, jtd wrote:
Basically just building a home entertainment box. Problem is that my mom and dad need to operate it with a remote. So lotsa lirc stuff and tv mode.
If you recollect, during the last meet, Rajiv had given a demo on the new graphics drivers and also demonstrated a remote control. Maybe you guys could gang up together. :)
Regards,
Rony.
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On Saturday 08 July 2006 10:15 pm, Rony wrote:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:05:05AM +0530, jtd wrote:
Basically just building a home entertainment box. Problem is that my mom and dad need to operate it with a remote. So lotsa lirc stuff and tv mode.
If you recollect, during the last meet, Rajiv had given a demo on the new graphics drivers and also demonstrated a remote control. Maybe you guys could gang up together. :)
That was on a "high" end AMD powerhog. Running cool is very important. So a via c3 is good enough, except it does not have AGI slot. the lowest end available with AGI is i845. Got the remote working on 2.6.17-3. Quite simple - modprobe ir-common ir-kbd-i2c; lirc --driver pixeview. Now to get hold of some menu files for X, XMMS etc. Need to checkout mythtv.
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