Top posting on purpose to save time for the readers. This is the sort of guidance I needed. I'll doo all this as the day permits.
More interleaved where it's pertinent. Thanks at the bottom where it belongs. No hyperlinks were used in the creation of this email. On Sun, December 23, 2007 7:24 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> OBSERVATION: The playback and sound hesitation is on the Myth box FE, not >> on the remote FE. This indicates to me that a possible root cause is a driver configuration problem on the Myth box's video card. -snip of stuff that doesn't matter - > None of those matter. > > What matters is what you are actually running with X Windows. > > What video card do have in the system? If it's the one I gave you, then the "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]" is the right description, and the drivers are the right drivers. If it's not then you will have to properly identify it. > Yes, I am still using your donated video card II. I am relieved that I have theright driver. Onward to determine if I'm using it right. > Next, examine your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and see what it has in the Device section. For example, in mine I have: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > > This is for a preliminary installation, and indicates it is using the proprietary nvidia driver. The open source driver is called nv for an nVidia card. Post your xorg.conf so we can see how you are set up. > Attached > Configure your system to start in text mode (run level 3 for Ferdora). Start up X Windows like this: > > $ startx -- -logverbose 7 > > This will turn on extra logging. Then look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. In there you will see everything that X Windows does to start up and run. Post that file also because it has clues to see if everything is hooking up properly. That file may be a bit big so you may need to host it somewhere and post a link to it. > This will have to wait until a Scoobey-Doo terminates and I can have the box back. > I can't give you any more advice for now until I see what video card you are using and the log file. > > Gus eval "(Merry|Happy) $HolidayOfChoice" -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer
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