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ElChef

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Tuesday, January 17th 2006, 8:37am

Kmplayer and vdr = Hang up

Hello I'm trying to use the Kmplayer to see my Sat Channels with vdr.
I have added the:

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Section "Module" 
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     Load    "v4l" 
EndSection


To the XF86Config-4, before that I only see a black screen when conecting to VDR.
But now I can see the Sat Channel but nothing more... The system hangs up, the mouse can be moved, the keyboard don't work!
The only solution is to push the RESET BUTTON!!!
How can I fix that?

I try this on a Kanotix 2005-03 distro.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "ElChef" (Jan 17th 2006, 8:39am)

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Tuesday, January 17th 2006, 12:03pm

If you use an nVidia card and have the composite support enabled in your XF86Config-4 (for transparency effects), you shall try with composite disabled or update to latest kernel/nVidia-drivers.

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 5:16pm

Well I try the latest drivers from nVidia (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run) but the system hangs up again... what a fucking SHIT!! :P

How can I disable the composite?

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 5:51pm

Cool down... in 20 years I've never seen someone repairing something on a computer while blowing a fuse ;)

In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf you probably have following enty

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Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Enable"
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if so, comment it out (putting a # at teh beginning of each line)

Also, if you have these two entries, do the same with them:

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Option     "AllowGLXWithComposite"      "true"
Option     "RenderAccel"                "true"

The latter may perhaps work, up to you to try it out.

Furthermore, in your control center -> wimdows behaviour (I don't have the correct path to it, I'm in console mode wile recompiling my kde, but I'm sure you'll finding it), diable the transparency.

If composite is the reason for your troubles, this will help.

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Friday, January 20th 2006, 8:18am

Well I don't have any of the lines that you have commented.
But it seems there is a problem with the nvidia driver... another one...
To check this I have changed this line of my XF86Config-4:

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Driver "nvidia"

changed to

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Driver "nv"

And now I can see vdr on kmplayer... But I can't get the TV-Out!! X( of the nvidia.

I will investigate a little more and post the results here If I find a solution to get working nvidia driver with kmplayer+vdr. I need TV-Out 8)

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Friday, January 20th 2006, 1:20pm

The driver "nv" is a generic driver for nVidia cards which does not support all the capacities of your specific card. To have full support of all the features of your card, you shall use the "nvidia" module.

Before you installed your new 8178 drivers, have you checked if the linux-header package and the kernel sources are on your system? I don't know the kanotix distro, but you might have a package management system with which you can check if they're present.

If they're not, do install the correct version for your kernel and re-run the driver's install script.