David,<br><br>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.
<br><br>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).<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Steve<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Cramblett</b> <<a href="mailto:david@functionalchaos.net">david@functionalchaos.net</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;">
<br>>> Hello all,<br>>><br>>> Have I done something so stupid that it's not worth responding to or are<br>>> we running out of things to try? I'm all but given up at my end. I feel<br>>> like something must work but I can't seem to break through and I just
<br>>> don't have the time to put anything more into it. I've already wasted<br>>> for more time than should have on it.<br>>><br>>> Damian<br>>> _______________________________________________
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</a><br>>><br>>><br><br><br>Damian,<br><br>Not sure what exactly is going on with your ssh session, it is 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 mythtv
<br>machine locally. You mentioned that there was some issue with 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 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 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 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.<br><br><br>David<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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