[mythtv-users] Please help me get X running again on PVR350 tvout

[Tony Rein]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:24, Evan Burrows wrote:
> I just messed up my xorg.conf file.  I just used one of the previous
> posts to set the size the myth ui outputs.  My desktop was running at
> 640x480 which is really annoying, so I went into displays and bumped
> it up to 800x600 to test and rebooted the machine.  Now I go to my
> svideo channel and the screen is all black so I am guessing that
> changing the resolution somehow messed up my xorg.conf file.  Now that
> my computer is connected to my tv how do i fix this? is there a way I
> can boot to command line and view it on my tv?  Booting up does not
> show anything on my tv screen.
> 
> Please help!
> -Evan

Evan,

The easiest way to do this would be to log in to your Mythtv machine
remotely from another machine on your local network. I assume your
Mythtv box is on a network of some sort, so that it can update its
program guide information. Is there another machine on that network that
you can use?

You don't say which distribution you're using, but if you followed
Jarod's guide and installed Fedora, then your Mythtv box is probably
running an "ssh" server.  If so, then all you need is another computer
on that network with an ssh client installed.

If the other computer is running Linux, then the ssh client is called
"ssh" and is probably already part of your default distribution. If
you're still running Windows (you'll switch to Linux soon, don't worry)
then the easiest ssh client to use is called "Putty." Search in the
usual public Windows software repositories and you'll find it.

Logging in via ssh will get you to a console, just as if you'd logged in
on the Mythtv box itself without X.

Good luck.
Tony