> On 2018-12-08 23:32, Kevin Cummings wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Longtime Fedora user here. Last winter, I got a Raspberry Pi, and > > installed F28 on it. Using the HDMI output, it works well. Recently, I > > picked up the Raspberry Pi 7" display (and case). After hooking up the > > display to the Pi via the ribbon cable, I booted it up. > > > > The 7" display works well as the initial console, and I see all the > > usual messages go flying by. At some point (when it decides to switch > > to graphics mode) the display goes blank. Nothing on it. I cannot > > switch even to a virtual console. The new case blocks using the HDMI > > port, so I had to remove the Pi from the case (while leaving the ribbon > > cable attached to the display). After plugging a monitor into the HDMI > > port, what I discovered was that the Pi boots using the display as > > console, then switches to the HDMI port for the X11 driver. (not useful) > > > > How can I get the X11 display to come up on the 7" display in graphics > > mode. What do I need? A new xorg-x11-drv driver? A newer kernel? > > > > I'd like to turn this into a MythTV server (with a USB capture) and use > > the display as a system console with the ability to watch videos on it. > > (Yeah, I'm aware that its only a 800x400 screen.) Failing that, I'd > > like to use it in a "tablet" mode and get used to the touch screen > > interface. > > > > i do have a couple of suggestions and ideas that might be of help. > i'm a longtime user of mythtv and what i really like about it is its scheduler. > but there are other areas that could use with improving or using something else > for. > > so one idea is to let tvheadend control your capture devices (for example usb > based) and then point mythtv backend at tvheadend. > to make this work i created a php script to produce a correctly formatted m3u > file based on data from tvheadend automatically that makes mythbackend happy. > basically mythbackend streams from tvheadend. > > this kind of setup can give you a few additional things compared to a pure > mythtv setup. > main reason for me was the lack of dvb-t2 plp support in mythtv making most > channels not show up, plp is supported in tvheadend with a bit of fiddling with > settings. > also you can then use for example kodi as frontend and let kodi use tvheadend > as pvr and setup your media library (like recordings) to point to where > mythbackend stores it. > > > only thing your then missing is a way to schedule things in mythbackend but web > interface probably works. > > i don't know if it is easier to setup kodi instead of trying to get x11 working > with your display. > > > one issue you will likely run into is that tvheadend at least the one in fedora > 28 does not include the needed bits for support for a ca module. > this i had to rebuild myself and compile in. > the issue is the need for libdvben50221 that is part of dvb-apps but not > included by default in the package. Did you filed a bug for the missing bits? I don't see one here: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/dvb-apps/bugs > i haven't followed development of tvheadend closely in this area but i hope it > gets fixed properly and ca module support gets added to tvheadend in fedora. I have no idea what you mean by "ca module support", is that a kernel module? A mythtv module or something in another package? > oh, i almost forgot. > as you know the filenames created by mythtv is not very user friendly so i made > a script around mythlink.pl so it can tell the difference between movies and > series and then produce a folder structure more compatible with kodi and its > way of figuring out what metadata to load. > another way instead of this would be to point kodi at the upnp exposed library > by the backend, this is also a quite nice structure with sane titles and so on. > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
