[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup wont export to a different xserver display (over ssh)

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Mon Oct 13 00:38:21 UTC 2008


ryan patterson wrote:
> I need to reconfigure my backend.  The backend machine only has a VGA 
> monitor output and I only have DVI cables right now.  I thought it 
> would be easy to ssh from an other computer and run mythtv-setup by 
> exporting the display.  But mythtv-setup generates a segmentation 
> fault no matter what I do.  I am running ubuntu 7.04 on all the 
> machines. 
>
>
> Any ideas?

Set up gdm to allow connections and then from a remote machine, connect 
using XDMCP.

--Yan


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