On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Lee Revellrlrevell@joe-job.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, VDR Useruser.vdr@gmail.com wrote:
My mainboard doesn't have HDMI out but it did come with an HDTV module for HDTV output, could it still be that something in my xorg.conf is missing that is causing this not to work? How can I tell (or could you tell by my logs) if the codec registers are good? I'm not sure how to proceed from here aside of buying a new mainboard.
Anyone? Any suggestions at all?
This probably cannot work in a headless environment. Thanks to DRM, the video driver has to do some magic to make HDMI work.
I assume your video card is Nvidia. Even though you plan to run headless you probably have to set up X server with proprietary nvidia driver to have any chance of this working.
As I've said, my mainboard doesn't have HDMI, it has DVI. But I'm not using the on-board video anyway. I've got an Nvidia video card capable of vdpau which has SPDIF_IN so I'm going from the SPDIF_OUT on the mainboard into that. It's true that I have to have Xorg set up but that's all. No desktop/windows manager. The only software the box has installed is: Xorg, lirc, VDR, mplayer-nogui, Nvidia video drivers (of course!), xine-lib + vdr-xine. I have another box running the same setup (different mainboard though, where spdif IS working) and it runs great.
The problem isn't what I'm trying to do, I already know the setup works fine. The problem is that alsa is broken for the chipset (AD1989a) on that mainboard since the exact same setup works on a different mainboard/chipset (ALC883).