Damian,<br><br>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.)
<br><br>I'm only interested in the log file anyway.<br><br>Cheers<br>Steve<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damian Surr</b> <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I understand now that I should start X locally with verbose 5 and then
<br>go in via SSH just for grabbing the log file once the display has messed up.<br><br>I'll do that as soon as I get back.<br><br>Cheers<br>Damian<br><br>Steve Smith wrote:<br>> David,<br>><br>> No I think you may be getting a bit confused about the ssh bit. We
<br>> suggested using ssh (or even telnet) because Damian's email PC is in a<br>> different room from his myth PC, using SSH means he can copy & paste<br>> the logs into the emails much easier. It's a good idea to make sure
<br>> xdm/gdm etc is NOT running & confusing the issue though.<br>><br>> We can actually debug this thing purely from the Xorg.0.log file,<br>> don't even need to see the X display (so long as we've got
<br>> --logverbose 5 turned on).<br>><br>> Cheers<br>><br>> Steve<br>><br>><br>> On 11/06/07, *David Cramblett* <<a href="mailto:david@functionalchaos.net">david@functionalchaos.net</a><br>> <mailto:
<a href="mailto:david@functionalchaos.net">david@functionalchaos.net</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> >> Hello all,<br>> >><br>> >> Have I done something so stupid that it's not worth responding
<br>> to or are<br>> >> we running out of things to try? I'm all but given up at my<br>> end. I feel<br>> >> like something must work but I can't seem to break through and<br>
> I just<br>> >> don't have the time to put anything more into it. I've already<br>> wasted<br>> >> for more time than should have on it.<br>> >><br>> >> Damian
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a>><br>> >><br>> >><br>><br>><br>> Damian,<br>><br>> Not sure what exactly is going on with your ssh session, it is
<br>> possible<br>> that some x11 tunneling is happening that may cause some issues. It<br>> would be better if you could launch the startx command form your<br>> mythtv<br>> machine locally. You mentioned that there was some issue with
<br>> using the<br>> command line? It is all garbled? Are you launching from another<br>> command window inside of X or are you alt-F1 'ing to a text console?<br>><br>> I would recommend you disable X from automatically starting for a
<br>> while<br>> so you can manually start the X server to do your testing. What Linux<br>> distribution are you using? On many, what you can do is edit the<br>> file<br>> /etc/inittab and comment out (put a # in front of) the last line,
<br>> something like this:<br>><br>> # Run xdm in runlevel 5<br>> x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon<br>><br>> change to:<br>><br>> # Run xdm in runlevel 5<br>> # x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
<br>><br>> then you can run:<br>><br>> $ init -q<br>><br>> from the command line and it will shutdown X and your login manger<br>> like<br>> xdm, gdm or what ever your system is running.
<br>><br>><br>> Then your system will only boot up into a command line and you can<br>> launch X by running:<br>><br>> $ startx<br>><br>> so that you can see the output and start and stop X easier.
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