Hello guys,

I hope you an help me. I am a newbie but have been researching various methods for installing nvidia drivers, modifying the xf86config-4 file etc.

Setup: Running KnnopMyth R5A16, AMD Athalon with 1gb ram

Situation: If I leave the monitor disconnected during boot up the SVideo Out to TV seems to activate. The TV becomes the monitor and seems to work well; here this means that I see the boot up sequence and anything in shell. However when GDM starts it goes to gray fuzzy screen with squiggles.

Things I've Tried:
1.http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html Advice:
<CTRL><ALT><F1>
log in as rooot.
install-nv<TAB><TAB> (you have two options)
---> Here after the first TAB i get: "install-nvidia-" after the second tab nothing happens and my system beeps at me. I don't know what this is trying to do so I'm lost at fixing this problem.
2. http://www.podtronics.com/knoppmyth/FAQ ... dia%20card
su
(enter your root password, if needed)
export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linu ... 6-pkg2.run
sh 1.0-4496/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
*my note here.. it dosen't download to the 1.0-4496 directory, but no problem the file is there so i jus took off the ##-####/
(Accept the Agreement, Select No)
----> Ok here I accepted the agreement (assuming a typeo) and get an error stating that "No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel" after telling it to persue other options I end up with "unable to find kernel header files for the currently running kernel" I have read other howto's that suggest that I should install them. I've been killing my self trying to find out what kernel headders. I've tried apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source and tried to apt-get the kernel for 2.6.11.chw.2 Additionally, If i follow his directions and select no then I get an error upon restarting GDM that says: module "v41" does not exhist and module "nvidia" does not exhist. So it seems clear to me that I need to get kernel headers but apparently I don't know how to do that or posssibly just wat to get. Here are the rest of the directios from that page: (Accept the Agreement, Select No)
(Once your back to the command line continue)
vim /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(Press Insert to edit the file)
(Change Load "GLcore" to # Load "GLcore")
(Add the line Load "v4l")(Find a line that starts with Driver. Next to it is the name of your current video driver surrounded by two quotes. Change the name of the driver to nvidia. So the line should read Driver "nvidia")
(Your almost done!)
(Type Esc and then :w! and then enter)
(You may then exit with :q)
/etc/init.d/gdm start

3. Modified XF86Config-4 File repeatedly using pices from the example file for nvidia cards typically adding the following:
Section: Monitor
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
HorizSync 30 - 50
VertRefresh 60
Section: Device
Section "Device"
Driver "nvidia"
#VendorName "All" I left this and the next 2 out becaus they seemed optonal?
#BoardName "All"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Section:
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
*modyfing this file alone seems to take my full screen grey'ed problem to a different level of mess (black with a window sized block of red squiggles in the upper left).

If anyone sees where I am going wrong, or has any advice to offer on these methods. I would like e-hug you!

At this point I am unsure as to wither knoppmyth R5A16 comes with nvidia drivers or wither I should focus my efforts on installing them. It seems like there is some discrepency in online documentation to get tv-out working; some only have to edit the xf86config-4 file while others insist on installing nvidia drivers. HELP

This is called "tab completion." There are two versions of the install-nvidia scripts, one older and one newer. If you're not going to be connecting to a 1080i HDTV, you can probably go with the newer one.

That should probably be three TABs: the first TAB auto-completes "install-nv" to "install-nvidia-" (but doesn't do the rest because there are two options), the second TAB beeps at you (warning you there are more than one options to auto-complete), and the third one shows you your options. You can then continue typing the name of the one you want (i.e. type "7") and press TAB again to auto-complete.

I think you need to install the nvidia drivers to get TV out to work but I'm not sure. I know you'll need to edit your XF86Config-4 file to do so.

PS: if this is in KnoppMyth->Installation, it might get moved, as it is considered "post-installation" (problems with getting the setup to load from CD are "installation.")

OMG! That was so simple. I have been using the single (tab) completion for a long time, but never knew that 3 gave you all your choices. I couldn't figure out where install was trying to grab it's files from so I couldn't use my trusty ls.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Going to do a clean install and try this again. I will post here if I have any more problems.

Wow that tip really helped! Yeppers everything works hunky dory now!

Thank you very much.

PS> Do you know if samba is enabled by default?

Thank You!

Samba is installed and configured (username and password of mythtv) but not turned on. Check this wiki article for info:

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... SambaHowTo

Thank you very much.. I've been trying to use the wiki link in google but it keeps failing. This one worked very well.

PS> If one were to do a normal auto install and bought an SATA drive to mount to /myth/video (thus seperating operating system drive from video storage drive) would the kernel support the sata drive?

I've been trying to mount mine using hda5 and/or sda1 err guessing. I don't really know how to determine what name is given to newly connected devices.

Any way thanks.. off the the wiki.

just a tip any wiki link you find on google if you remove the homelinux out of the domain part it should still work. The wiki moved to it's own domain a while back, and some of the google links are still the old dyndns domain.

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Xsecrets

Sorry,

I just learned the meaning of threadjacking and realized I've been doing that here.

Staying on the appropriate topic, is there any way to contact the head knnopmyth guy to get that third <tab> included on the pamphlet?


http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html#autoupgrade

I know it's a stupid omission but it really screwed me up.