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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:52 am 
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i ended up blowing away the install and starting over. Problem didnt happen this time so i dont know what went wrong. Works now thanks! the UI is so much faster now that the correct video drivers are there!


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:09 am 
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my ui is slow as well, but working. the xorg conf says i'm using driver nvidia though. if i did an upgrade do you think i have the correct nvidia drivers or should i try the above correct. (xorg seems to use up whatever cpu the frontend leaves)


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:28 am 
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Random, You didn't say anything about the hardware you're running.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:39 pm 
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If you upgrade the driver, I strongly suggest the change from this post:

Lower x.org cpu load dramatically in R5E50 when watching HD
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13550


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:18 pm 
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Excellent write-up. Thanks! this worked great and fixed a separate issue I was having.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:25 am 
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1. Why is nvidia driver updating so difficult in R5E50? It had no trouble updating drivers in R5C7 and R5D1. Is the difference with R5E50, the missing kernal source code?

2. Is it really necessary to delete the old nvidia drivers before downloading and installing the new ones? This was NOT necessary when I did it in R5C7 and R5D1.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:51 pm 
I had the same problem where an old driver was being loaded. My X server comes up however I've lost my Air2PC 0.2 HDTV capture card. Here's the dmesg

Linux video capture interface: v2.00
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[fdfff000-fdfff7ff] Max
Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfu
lly
flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter.
flexcop-pci: card revision 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ
21
DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device).
b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:30:1b:a4
b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.8.2 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.18-chw-13 SMP preempt mod_unload 586 gcc-4.1
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed
b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed
nxt200x: nxt200x_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0x0a, err == -121)
Unknown/Unsupported NXT chip: 00 00 00 00 00
b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed
lgdt330x: i2c_read_demod_bytes: addr 0x59 select 0x02 error (ret == -121)
bcm3510: Revision: 0x1, Layer: 0xb.
b2c2-flexcop: found the bcm3510 at i2c address: 0x0f
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Broadcom BCM3510 VSB/QAM frontend)...
b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Air2PC/AirStar 2 ATSC 1st generation' at the 'P
CI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:35 pm 
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samilliken wrote:
Since the kernel source wasn't included with R5E50 by default, it has been a bit difficult to install any nvidia drivers other than 8776 and 7184. Thanks to the post at http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13281 we now know how to get the source. However, that's not the complete picture on how to get the latest and greatest drivers installed.

First, of course, follow the directions in the above post so that you have the /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18-chw-13 directory. Now perform the following:


cd /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13
cp -r . ../linux-source-2.6.18-chw-13


This merges the kernel-headers with the kernel-source, since the source by itself doesn't have the configuration files that were used.

Next, on my system at least, I had to at least partially make the kernel again, because certain kernel module scripts weren't in a usable state until you did that. So I did the following:


cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18-chw-13
make
[wait about 20 seconds and then hit ctrl-c]



So does this mean that if we're doing this for the first time that we should stop the make after 20 seconds? You mentioned you had to make it again, so I'm not sure if that step is your "redo" or not. So do we do the make once, or twice (and the second time kill it after 20 seconds?)

Or do we do it "once" and kill it after 20 seconds?


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:50 am 
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hurnik wrote:
Or do we do it "once" and kill it after 20 seconds?

I did it once, and it was fine.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:11 am 
After a collosal failure (my Air2PC hdtv capture card stopped working) the first time I'm trying again.

I read this to mean hit ctrl-c after 20 thus the make was never completed. All we have are some config files rebuilt and some object modules built but nothing that can stand on its own.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:36 am 
Made some progress.

Got the same story.

1. Before NVIDIA update HDTV OTA works fine.
2. Update NVIDIA. Now I have no signal lock at all on all channes, and 0% signal.
3. Deleted Capture card and reinstalled, rescanned for Cable-High channels, now it works. Xorg on top is 30% cpu
4. Modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Option "UseEvents" "True", reboot, no signal lock again.
5. Repeat step 3. HDTV is back but Xorg is still 30%, hmm.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:56 am 
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Have you enabled XvMC? Did you do the fix for the library location mentioned in the upgrade hints thread?


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:06 am 
Yes I corrected the link. Is there a way to tell what version of the driver is loaded? I tried grepping dmesg for nVidia but that didn't work.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:18 am 
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Look in the X logfile... /var/log/Xorg.0.log

BTW - There is an nvidia driver "update" task that runs at boot time which may need to be disabled, since it tends to keep forcing it's notion of the correct driver.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:27 am 
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jmairs wrote:
5. Repeat step 3. HDTV is back but Xorg is still 30%, hmm.

You've got to do the other trick. The one in this thread:
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13550


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