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