[mythtv-users] HOWTO: Xebian and Mythfrontend on xbox
Monkey Pet
monkeypet at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 04:05:07 UTC 2006
Installing using the E images that I have provided is probably the fastest
way to get the mythtvfrontend on the xbox:
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Install_using_E_Images
On 3/30/06, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:13:21PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > > 1) What do I need to do to ensure than an X is running when I boot up?
> > Make sure one of the 'dm's is installed. I use gdm, since that's got
> > nice and easy configuration.
> >
> > > 2) And, what do I need to do to get my mythtv user's .xinitrc
> > > automatically run on boot up?
> > Tell gdm to login the mythtv user automatically.
> >
> > Personally I use a timed login (so that if it crashes and goes back to
> > the login screen, it'll autologin again), and you need to add the
> > following section to your /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:
> >
> > [daemon]
> > TimedLoginEnable=true
> > TimedLoginDelay=5
> > TimedLogin=mythtv
>
> Thanks for that. Unfortunately I can't even get X up and running. I
> got this in /var/log/Xorg.log.0:
>
> Failed to load module "nvxbox" (module does not exist, 0)
> No drivers available
>
> So then I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and tried a different
> driver. Unfortunately now when Xebian boots I get a blank screen which
> won't respond to the keyboard and which I can't SSH into so I'm at a
> loss how I can proceed from here :( I think I may have picked a
> refresh rate that it doesn't like but Im just guessing here.
>
> The machine's booting into run level 2 so I think it's GDM kicking in
> which is causing the problem. Is there any way I can boot it up and
> stop it starting GDM? On Fedora Core I think you can intervene and
> stop certain services starting but it doesn't look like Xebian does
> that. Does this mean that I'mk going to have to rebuild the whole damn
> thing again from scratch?
>
> If it does, is anybody able to advise what settings I should use for
> X, especially wrt the video driver and what display resolution and
> refresh rate to use for a pretty standard 10 year old Panasonic CRT
> TV?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
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