2011-09-19, 21:39
Hello,
i'm new to this forum and to the world of XBMC, and so far i'm quite impressed by its capabilities. Anyway, i encountered a problem i didn't manage to resolve so far, so i decided to ask on here after reading countless threads and researching on dozens of website without finding a solution.
I decided to use an old Laptop as XBMC platform:
ASUS A8JS
CPU: Core 2 Duo T7200 (2,00 GHz)
Memory: 2.048 MByte
Graphics adapter: GeForce Go 7700, 256 MByte
Harddisk: 250 GByte (Fujitsu MHV2120BH PL)
DVD+/-RW + RAM (Matshita UJ-850S)
Modem, LAN (1 GBit/s), WLAN (54 MBit/s)
5 x USB 2.0, 1 x Firewire, Infrarot, Bluetooth 2.0
Video out: Monitor (Analog + DVI-I), TV-Out (S-VHS)
I installed XBMC following these instructions:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu
After the installation, the screen of my laptop remained blank, but i managed to connect through SSH from another computer, installed the NVIDIA drivers, and it worked. The next step was connecting the laptop to my TV, using a DVI to HDMI cable. When starting the computer i see the boot screen on the TV, but as soon XBMC starts up the TV screen goes blank. When shutting down XBMC, it switches on again for a few seconds, displaying the Ubuntu logo. So apparently under XBMC - and only under XBMC - the DVI Out or the TV doesn't get any signal.
I tried a lot of things to make it work, but without success... and by now i feel a bit frustrated. I reinstalled the drivers, tried dozens of different settings in my xorg.conf, but nothings seems to change the problem.
Details about the TV:
Panasonic TH42PX60E
42" Plasma
HD ready
1024 x 768
720p
My current xorg.conf looks like this:
Could anybody give me a hint into the right direction? Many thanks in advance!
i'm new to this forum and to the world of XBMC, and so far i'm quite impressed by its capabilities. Anyway, i encountered a problem i didn't manage to resolve so far, so i decided to ask on here after reading countless threads and researching on dozens of website without finding a solution.
I decided to use an old Laptop as XBMC platform:
ASUS A8JS
CPU: Core 2 Duo T7200 (2,00 GHz)
Memory: 2.048 MByte
Graphics adapter: GeForce Go 7700, 256 MByte
Harddisk: 250 GByte (Fujitsu MHV2120BH PL)
DVD+/-RW + RAM (Matshita UJ-850S)
Modem, LAN (1 GBit/s), WLAN (54 MBit/s)
5 x USB 2.0, 1 x Firewire, Infrarot, Bluetooth 2.0
Video out: Monitor (Analog + DVI-I), TV-Out (S-VHS)
I installed XBMC following these instructions:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu
After the installation, the screen of my laptop remained blank, but i managed to connect through SSH from another computer, installed the NVIDIA drivers, and it worked. The next step was connecting the laptop to my TV, using a DVI to HDMI cable. When starting the computer i see the boot screen on the TV, but as soon XBMC starts up the TV screen goes blank. When shutting down XBMC, it switches on again for a few seconds, displaying the Ubuntu logo. So apparently under XBMC - and only under XBMC - the DVI Out or the TV doesn't get any signal.
I tried a lot of things to make it work, but without success... and by now i feel a bit frustrated. I reinstalled the drivers, tried dozens of different settings in my xorg.conf, but nothings seems to change the problem.
Details about the TV:
Panasonic TH42PX60E
42" Plasma
HD ready
1024 x 768
720p
My current xorg.conf looks like this:
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 270.41.06 ([email protected]) Mon Apr 18 15:14:00 PDT 2011
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
Option "HWCursor" "Off"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "False"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSectionCould anybody give me a hint into the right direction? Many thanks in advance!
