[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

[Steve Smith]

Damian,

Actually it doesn't matter where you run "startx" from, locally or SSH! (No
really it doesn't! X is just a program...Theoretically if I had access to
your machine I could go in over the internet and kick off X from my
machine...I could even run X on my machine, but then run programs on your
machine that displayed on my screen...It all falls down when we start doing
video though, different story.)

I'm only interested in the log file anyway.

Cheers
Steve

On 12/06/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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