Well, it was in the directions. Jarod managed to sell me on the goodness of it. In the long run, it doesn't actually matter that much.
As to my bigger issue, no matter what I do, I haven't been able to get X started on the TV-out. Both my monitor and my TV are utterly blank. Then when I restart the box, I get a message that it can't start X and wants to show me logs and let me try to detect my settings. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:03:41 -0800 (PST), Anduin Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I naively thought this would work without a hitch. What I don't > > get is how the modules are loaded into the ram disk if the file system > > isn't mounted. Hmm, perhaps some sort of image was made when I ran > > mkinitrd. I can't believe I'm the only person who did this. > > The person who wrote that guide was nice enough to post including a reference > to a bug with further directions, those directions tell you to put the > firmware > on the initial ram disk (and how). > > Initial RAM disks are there so kernels can be built with many key drivers > built > as modules. The mkinitrd script uses your system information and supplied > parameters to build an image with those key drivers. > > While you certainly aren't the only one going down that road I'd still term it > an uncommon setup. > > > I think I have bigger problems, though. I get nothing from the TV out > > when I try to start X. > > This is when you load the driver normally? Or still w/o the firmware? > > -- > Anduin Withers > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
