[mythtv-users] nvidia tv-out - how do you do it? Better, but not there yet.

[john salch]

export DISPLAY=0.1

--- Maarten <mythtv at ultratux.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 21 October 2004 02:19, Brad Fuller
> wrote:
> > Ok, I looked the FAQ over. And, I don't know what
> to do. I assume it has
> > something to do with the inability for a user (or
> root for that matter
> > -- i tried that) to switch to DISPLAY:1.
> > There should be an easy way to do this, rather
> than running at init3
> >
> > As I mentioned, I have no problem running myth to
> the computer display with
> >
> > # export DISPLAY=:0
> > # mythfrontend
> >
> > But, I receive the following error if
> >
> > # export DISPLAY=:1
> > # mythfrontend
> > mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server: 1
> 
> This behavior could be consistent with having the X
> server started by a 
> different user than the one connecting later.  Note
> that when user fubar 
> starts (owns) the X session, not even the user root
> can connect to it (not 
> without resorting to trickery at least).  So, be
> sure you start the X server 
> by the same account throughout.
> 
> But I think in that case the errormessage is
> slightly different:
> unable to open display ""  is what I see here.
> 
> You could test to see if this would make any
> difference: adding the command 
> 'xhost +' in between export DISPLAY=:1 and the rest.
>  However, again, xhost 
> must be run by the user owning the X session,
> otherwise it will just return a 
> failure.  Please note that running 'xhost +' is NOT
> secure, it will open up 
> your X session for everybody.  So use this only in a
> trusted environment !
> 
> Maarten
> 
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