stability problems seem solved now xorg.conf woes the new delight

[Joe Born]

moving back to the old flash drives seems to have solved the stability
woes, but I still have a TV here that just won't show an image. As
you can imagine, this is severe limitation for a device intended to
show video on the TV.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-conf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh
sudo nvidia-xconfig --use-display-device=DFP

all seemed to net the same result, namely a black screen.

It's a very inexpensive 15" COBY TV, I'm wondering if this is an
anomoly or if we're likely to see a lot of these types of issues.

Thoughts?

Joe

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:31:17AM -0600, Joe Born wrote:
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-conf
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh
> sudo nvidia-xconfig --use-display-device=DFP
>
> all seemed to net the same result, namely a black screen.

Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log ; it is very hard to debug an X issue
without that. Also, attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if any)

[Been at an Anime con this weekend... sorry if I missed something in
IRC]

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[Daniel Jircik]

Does the monitor show using sudo nvidia-settings which you should
maybe consider using over nvidia-xconfig which does not querie the
device but simply writes to xorg.conf
Ciao
Daniel

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[Joe Born]

> Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log ; it is very hard to debug an X issue
> without that. Also, attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if any)

Ok, well now I lost the monitor that was giving trouble and I also
upgraded to the 190.42 nvidia driver, so I'll have to ask them if they
are still having trouble and post the xorg logs (as well as trying
Daniel's suggestion re xconfig)

Have you tried the 190.42 nvidia driver on your system? Anyone have
any experience that driver on the nVidia LINK?

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:42:15AM -0600, Joe Born wrote:
>
> Have you tried the 190.42 nvidia driver on your system? Anyone have
> any experience that driver on the nVidia LINK?

It breaks multi-channel PCM (over HDMI). So, I'm probably going to
downgrade.

[Joe Born]

> It breaks multi-channel PCM (over HDMI). So, I'm probably going to
> downgrade.

I haven't figured out a way to deal with the overscan issue yet.
190.42 has an adjustment for it, not sure if it works, but at least
there's an adjustment. If that doesn't work, or we don't use 190,
we'll have to figure out something else because on some tvs, you can't
access the whole gui due to the overscan.

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:47:51PM -0600, Joe Born wrote:

> If that doesn't work, or we don't use 190,
> we'll have to figure out something else because on some tvs, you can't
> access the whole gui due to the overscan.

Who uses a LINK with a CRT‽ Or did someone manage to create an LCD with
overscan issues?

When I do my dero-LINK GUI, I'll make sure to stay away from the edges.

[Joe Born]

> Who uses a LINK with a CRT‽ Or did someone manage to create an LCD with
> overscan issues?
>
> When I do my dero-LINK GUI, I'll make sure to stay away from the edges.

I guess that would solve it, but yeah, it's an LCD, not a CRT, and
while there may be GUI settings in most cases to fix it (there was on
my tv) it would be vastly vastly better to not have to ask users to
monkey with it, of course.

[Stelios Valavanis]

haven't followed this thread closely (was away) but for what it's worth i've
got 1080p going great over HDMI (no audio) with v 185 ov nvidia drivers and
this xorg.conf file. oh it's kubuntu 9.10 (karmic) i'm running. mythtv frontend
works great on it! hulu is a little jerky. haven't run boxee/xbmc yet because
no 64bit.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

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