[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Tue Jun 12 09:11:06 UTC 2007


I understand now that I should start X locally with verbose 5 and then 
go in via SSH just for grabbing the log file once the display has messed up.

I'll do that as soon as I get back.

Cheers
Damian

Steve Smith wrote:
> David,
>
> No I think you may be getting a bit confused about the ssh bit. We 
> suggested using ssh (or even telnet) because Damian's email PC is in a 
> different room from his myth PC, using SSH means he can copy & paste 
> the logs into the emails much easier. It's a good idea to make sure 
> xdm/gdm etc is NOT running & confusing the issue though.
>
> We can actually debug this thing purely from the Xorg.0.log file, 
> don't even need to see the X display (so long as we've got 
> --logverbose 5 turned on).
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 11/06/07, *David Cramblett* <david at functionalchaos.net 
> <mailto:david at functionalchaos.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     >> Hello all,
>     >>
>     >> Have I done something so stupid that it's not worth responding
>     to or are
>     >> we running out of things to try? I'm all but given up at my
>     end. I feel
>     >> like something must work but I can't seem to break through and
>     I just
>     >> don't have the time to put anything more into it. I've already
>     wasted
>     >> for more time than should have  on it.
>     >>
>     >> Damian
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>     >>
>
>
>     Damian,
>
>     Not sure what exactly is going on with your ssh session, it is
>     possible
>     that some x11 tunneling is happening that may cause some issues.  It
>     would be better if you could launch the startx command form your
>     mythtv
>     machine locally.  You mentioned that there was some issue with
>     using the
>     command line?  It is all garbled?  Are you launching from another
>     command window inside of X or are you alt-F1 'ing to a text console?
>
>     I would recommend you disable X from automatically starting for a
>     while
>     so you can manually start the X server to do your testing.  What Linux
>     distribution are you using?  On many, what you can do is edit the
>     file
>     /etc/inittab and comment out (put a # in front of) the last line,
>     something like this:
>
>     # Run xdm in runlevel 5
>     x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
>     change to:
>
>     # Run xdm in runlevel 5
>     # x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
>     then you can run:
>
>     $ init -q
>
>     from the command line and it will shutdown X and your login manger
>     like
>     xdm, gdm or what ever your system is running.
>
>
>     Then your system will only boot up into a command line and you can
>     launch X by running:
>
>     $ startx
>
>     so that you can see the output and start and stop X easier.
>
>
>     David
>
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