[mythtvnz] Problem instailling VDPAU on Mythbuntu 9.04 64-bit

[Steve Lang]

Hi Stephen.

I'm a little confused with your email. You say that you settled on the
EN8600GS, and all I can find on the asus website is the EN8600GT
(various versions). The link that you provided takes me to the EN8400GS,
not a EN8600GS.

I'm interested in the same (general) range of cards, in particular, can
you run audio over HDMI with this card?

Cheers -

Stephen Worthington wrote:
> I am currently suing my Asus G1S laptop to play back FreeviewHD to my
> TV.  But it has developed some dead pixels, so I need to send it back
> under warranty to get that fixed, and I will need something else for
> FreeviewHD for the three weeks or so it will take Asus to send it to
> Australia and back.  As I have one of OpenMedia's myPVR MythTV boxes,
> I decided to try out VDPAU on that.  I had a spare bootable partition,
> so all I needed was a VDPAU video card (the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard
> has an onboard Nvidia 6150 GPU, which does not do VDPAU). 
>
> After some research I settled on an Asus EN8600GS SILENT 512MB:
>
> http://www.asus.co.nz/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=551&l4=0&model=2094&modelmenu=1
>
> There were various considerations - I wanted a silent card as the
> myPVR box lives next to my bed, and 9xxx series cards all looked to
> use too much power and would have required a power supply upgrade as
> well.  And they did not seem to actually be available in NZ.  I did
> not want an 8xxx series card, as the chips in them are known to die
> with temperature cycling, but some research showed that the 8600 GS
> cards are now made using a later chipset that does not have that
> problem.  And the 8600GS was relatively cheap, so I could try it out
> without worrying about the cost.  There are not size specifications I
> could find for the silent cards either, so getting one to fit the
> motherboard was rather pot luck.
>
> Fortunately, I lucked out and the EN8600GS SILENT card just fits
> nicely in the PCIe-16 slot with my first Hauppauge PVR-500 card in the
> next (PCI) slot and room for a little airflow.  It is short enough so
> that the airflow to heatsink on the 6150 GPU on the motherboard is not
> impeded either.  I did have to move the TV-out connectors that were in
> the PCIe-16 slothole, but there was room for them elsewhere (I have
> the larger style myPVR case).
>
> So far, so good.  So I changed the BIOS settings to default to PCIe-16
> video and installed Mythbuntu 9.04 (64 bit) on the spare partition.
> That worked, and I updated to all the latest packages, installed KDE
> and tried out the desktop.  All seemed well - the video quality is
> very nice compared to the S-Video output I was using before, with the
> text being properly readable on my TV.  There is a problem caused by
> my TV (Panasonic TX-32LX70A) as it does not advertise its native
> screen resolution (1366x768) in the EDID data.  Using the modes that
> it does advertise, I have considerable overscan and can not see the
> XFCE toolbar at the top.  Fortunately, I am familiar enough with it to
> be able to click on it blind and the dropdown menu is mostly visible
> and usable.
>
> I am working on a finding a good modeline or another way of fixing the
> overscan.  Reputedly, a service menu on TX-32LX70 models allows some
> adjustment of overscan settings, but the one service menu and the
> "hotel" menu I have found so far do not seem to have that option.  If
> anyone knows a good modeline to try for 1366x768 modes, feel free to
> point me to it.
>
> Then I installed Jean-Yves's VDPAU repository and started an update to
> install the VDPAU packages.  Unfortunately, at this point there has
> been a problem I do not know how to go about fixing.  I got an error
> from the packages as they installed.  Here is the relevant section of
> /var/log/apt/term.log:
>
> Setting up libmyth-0.21-0 (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
>
> Setting up mythtv-common (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
>
> Setting up mythtv-database (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
> Failed to connect to database (incorrect admin password)
>  * Starting MySQL database server mysqld
>    ...done.
> Failed to create or modify database (incorrect admin
> username/password?)
> Try:
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database
>
> Setting up mythtv-transcode-utils
> (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3) ...
> Setting up libmyth-perl (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
> Setting up mythtv-backend (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
>  * Removing stale PID file /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend
>  * Starting MythTV server: mythbackend
> Segmentation fault
> invoke-rc.d: initscript mythtv-backend, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing mythtv-backend (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> mythtv-backend-master:
>  mythtv-backend-master depends on mythtv-backend (=
> 1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3); however:
>   Package mythtv-backend is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing mythtv-backend-master (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up mythtv-frontend (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv:
>  mythtv depends on mythtv-backend (=
> 1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3); however:
>   Package mythtv-backend is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up libdirac0c2a (1.0.2-0ubuntu1) ...
>
> Setting up libmyth-python (1:0.21.0+fixes-20607-openglvdpau-0ubuntu3)
> ...
>
>
> So, does anyone know what is going on here?  Should I try again with
> the 32-bit version of Mythbuntu 9.04?
>
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