Hi, On (02/01/06 11:21), Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600 > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The reason it was giving me the error was because mythbackend was > > > > shutting down. I ran mythbackend in a screen, detached the screen and > > > > ran mythfrontend. I did this twice. Both times once mythfrontend > > > > loaded I selected the Watch Live TV option and it showed me about a > > > > second and a half of live TV and then froze. Both times I had to Cntrl > > > > +Alt+Backspace to get out of it. I have a 1.33GHz P4 processor, so that > > > > shouldn't be the problem. Amazingly mythbackend is still running in the > > > > screen. Here's the output so far: > > > > > > > > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card drivers. For now, > > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with something like > > tvtime - > > > > [ N] media-tv/tvtime (0.9.12): High quality television application for use with video capture cards. > > > > Perhaps some tweaking to /etc/X11/xorg.conf is needed or different params to the video card > > driver to change some options. If the system won't play live tv, without issue, messing with MythTV > > won't fix it. > > > > There are some suggestions here - > > > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#Video > > > > Bob > > I looked at the link you sent me. Most of it didn't make sense to me. > One part that did make sense was the > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#X_Setup > > I created a test user (to avoid screwing up my personal account) and > copied to listed .xinitrc and .xsession information into testuser's > counterparts of those files. I started kdm and attempted to log in to a > Custom session with testuser. It kept spitting me back out at the login > screen. I asked to go back to the console and looked > at /var/log/kdm.log. There's a bunch of this: > > X Window System Version 6.8.2 > Release Date: 9 February 2005 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 [ELF] > Current Operating System: Linux camille 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sun Jan > 1 22:29:29 CST 2006 i686 > Build Date: 26 December 2005 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Module Loader present > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 2 10:58:02 2006 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) > > > Holly said something about my kernel not being set up correctly when I > was having this problem with gdm, but gdm works just fine. Just kdm and > the custom session. How do I compile apg into my kernel to fix this? > Here's my kernel config, created by genkernel: > > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 > # Sun Jan 1 22:22:04 2006 > # > CONFIG_X86=y > CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y > CONFIG_MMU=y > CONFIG_UID16=y > CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y > CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y > CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y >...SKIP... > > # > # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver > # > # CONFIG_AGP is not set ==============^ switch this to ON plus the entry for your motherboard chips support. > # CONFIG_DRM is not set > > # > # PCMCIA character devices > # > # CONFIG_SYNCLINK_CS is not set > CONFIG_MWAVE=m > CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=m > # CONFIG_HPET is not set > CONFIG_MAX_RAW_DEVS=256 > # CONFIG_HANGCHECK_TIMER is not set >...SKIP... > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Assume you using genkernel without any modifications to kernel config? Got interested why this doesn't work with KDM so here it is: ...BEGIN... #emerge kdm -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/khotkeys-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 22,688 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkonq-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kicker-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdesu-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcminit-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas opengl ssl -arts -debug -ieee1394 -kdeenablefinal -logitech-mouse -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdm-3.5.0 USE="kdexdeltas pam -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB ...END... Do you have "opengl" in your USE-flags (in "/etc/make.conf" file)? If Yes this could explain why login fails only with KDM. Could be wrong here though ;-) Solutions: 1.compile a new kernel with AGP support in it (see above in kernel config) or 2.remove 'opengl' from "make.conf" and rebuild all affected packages (emerge -N world -pv). HTH.Rumen