On August 3, 2005 12:52 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Mark J. Small wrote: > >When the wife's away, the geek can play.... > > > >A while back I replaced the video card in my frontend. It used to be a > > TNT2, but I replaced it with an MX440. I was hoping to be able to get > > rid of my scan converter and use the TV out on the card. > > > >However, whenever I tried to use the TV out, X (xfree86 4.3.0 debian > > packages) would crash on startup with a signal 11. > > > >Well last night I finally had a chance to sit down and troubleshoot the > > thing. It turns out that glx was causing the problem. If I comment out > > the glx module, then TV out will work nicely. > > > >Anyone know why glx and tvout won't play nice? > > Are you sure you disabled glx and not GLCore? > > I'm using a Chaintech GF4 MX440's TV out and am using glx without any > problems. However, as described in the installation instructions for > the NVIDIA driver ( > ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7667/README.txt --search > for the first occurrence of "GLCore"), you *must* disable the GLCore > module to properly install the NVIDIA drivers. (You are also told to > enable the glx module, so... I highly recommend reading the README (of > every package you ever install on your box, for that matter). > > My guess is that you currently have GLCore enabled. With both glx and > GLCore, your system is using both the NVIDIA and the X GL libraries, > which causes conflicts. Through "random chance," you commented out one > of them (glx) and it worked--with only the X libraries (and software > GL)--but you're losing out on some very useful capabilities of the > driver. If you flip them (disable GLCore and enable glx), you should > get hardware-based GL acceleration. > > Mike
Nope, GLCore is disabled too. GLX works great for me until I try to use TV out. Then I get signal 11 on startup. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
