Can you post the Xorg log file and your config file somewhere and we may well be able to see what is wrong.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hare > Sent: 26 January 2005 04:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Problem loading ivtv with the old initrd trick > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
