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

[Brad Fuller]

Holy Cow John! I knew there was an easy answer!  That did it!

Where should I send your 6 pack of beer? ;-)

THANKS A MILLION!

brad

john salch wrote:

>export DISPLAY=0.1
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>--- Maarten <mythtv at ultratux.org> wrote:
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>>On Thursday 21 October 2004 02:19, Brad Fuller
>>wrote:
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>>>Ok, I looked the FAQ over. And, I don't know what
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>>to do. I assume it has
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>>>something to do with the inability for a user (or
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>>root for that matter
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>>>-- i tried that) to switch to DISPLAY:1.
>>>There should be an easy way to do this, rather
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>>than running at init3
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>>>As I mentioned, I have no problem running myth to
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>>the computer display with
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>>># export DISPLAY=:0
>>># mythfrontend
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>>>But, I receive the following error if
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>>># export DISPLAY=:1
>>># mythfrontend
>>>mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server: 1
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>>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.
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>>But I think in that case the errormessage is
>>slightly different:
>>unable to open display ""  is what I see here.
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>>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 !
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>>Maarten
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