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Hi all .
I started to have a very strange issue :
Here is my setup :
Foxconn E350 ( with HD6310 video card , setup by this original post) --> Denon avr 831 --> Toshiba aquos
Everything was working fine until last week where all of the the sudden i started to see that once every 20-50 min the HDMI lose signal .
Then in order to restore picture and audio i have to do "something" click on backspace , pause and play , and etc.. ( had to generate action ) .
I first suspected the xbvr but this is not this issue as the "freeze" happen also on the main xbmc screen and not only when playing video .
Here is what i tried and failed to resolve the issue :
Disable acceleration
Put HDMI switch between AV receiver and pc
Reboot receiver
reboot pc
disable power saving on receiver
disable power saving on TV
Disable up-scaling on Receiver
shutoff then turn on tv
I also checked and cpu do not spike when it get to "sleep"
How do i bypass the issue :
Pause + play
Backspace
power off AVR and power on
reboot computer
I am not sure where to continue and what to do .
Any advise here ?
How do i make sure the computer do not put the display on sleep ? as i am not familiar on how to do this in terminal at ubantu
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Can you try to connect the PC directly to your TV, without the AV receiver?
Also a debug log would be a start to look into this.
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Found the issue . it was with the xorg.conf file .
Not sure why it started all of the sudden after 3 months of using my system though .
I had to vi the file and add :
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"
Option "dpms" "false"
EndSection
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a testing version with AE is already in my testing ppa.
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you need a newer libshairport for the nightly builds. Precise has it in the the normal repos, builds for oneiric and natty are in my ppa.
But since I can't test airport myself I need you guys to give feedback if it works.
If xbmc crashes plz post a debug log. Maybe we can get something out of it to fix the issue.
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i updated to the latest testing release today. this has reduced my tearing a lot but i have lost focus of the mouse. i can move it around the screen and it has the correct xbmc pointer but it will not click on anything.
Keyboard and remote both work my the missus tends to use the mouse so i'm expecting a backlash. any ideas?
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gonesuper, please post a debug log.
In previous builds SDL handled windowing and events for keyboard and mouse. This build does not use SDL any more.
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@salex:
Can you just for testing: uncheck DTS and AC3 within the sound settings and set your Soundcard to analog?
What Audio Output are you using? (Please attach: sudo aplay -L)
What components are attached? TV, AVR, Analog Audio?
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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fritsch
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@BenvanDamme:
Please read the first page of this thread (max h264 Level4.1@High) only. And get us a mediainfo output.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.