On 10/21/18 6:24 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
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> On 21/10/18 21:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> I first noticed it while testing Stretch, I run a multimedia setup
>> no problem with Jessie without systemd or wheezy, I was running a
>> intel laptop HDMI to a big screen smart tv, the screen would go
>> black and the audio would stop, I'm not the only on who has seen
>> the problem as it's been mentioned on the Debian mailing list.
>> Since then I have ran it on other systems, like Devuan, PCLinuxOS
>> and Slackware too and have seen the the problem in real time while
>> looking at the system log and I would see the kernel making calls
>> to get a outside HTTP, I bring down my net connection and the
>> kernel calls avahi daemon to bring it back up and make a HTTP
>> connection, I stop avahi daemon and the kernel binds with the NIC
>> and tries to get outside HTTP, that's where my firewall stops it.
>> But the kernel keeps trying over and over and over endlessly to
>> get outside HTTP and all this makes it imposable to watch my movie.
>> Using the Intel laptop was convenient, but I got the idea to try my
>> AMD nvidia desktop, I got the same kernel activity but no
>> interference with audio/video, I'm now using ATI Radeon laptop,
>> works the same as nvidia or maybe it's because their both AMD as I
>> don't have nvidia or ATI running on a intel system that I can
>> test.
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>> Questions?
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> Is the cable perhaps 1.4 type with built-in Ethernet? Wonder if that
> might have something to do with it too. The SmartTV might be doing
> the communication attempts. Maybe it is trying to tattle on you for
> using video that it /thinks/ is breaking digital rights.. maybe
> something else entirely. If the kernel is making the HTTP calls, it
> might be under direction of the video driver that is able to network
> with the screen via the HDMI cable.
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> Cheers


The smart tv has wifi, like all this smart stuff we have today, if the
HDMI cable has internet, I doubt it, just audio and video.

Just so everybody knows the laptop for multimedia, amd radeon has a new
from scratch install of ASCII, I've let it set overnight with a movie on
pause and the log is open and running live and while I've had the net
down the log says:eth0 link down, receive packet failed, dhclent failed
to send 300 byte long packet over fallback interface(what fallback
interface?), and last is send_packet: please consult README file
regarding broadcast address.

That was the last log, since I brought the net down and it's much, much
quieter and seems to be behaving its self and my audio/video seem to be
perfect. I have a computer to repair, a laptop with no power, as I
suffer spine & nerve damage & constant pain it maybe a all day job. So
I will be checking comments when I can. But for ASCII and it seems to
be behaving its self, that is great, with the intel its behavior was crazy.

Thanks,
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Jimmy Johnson

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