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

[Evan Burrows]

Tony thanks for the advise, I will keep that in mind for next time.  I
will make a not to copy down my myth box's ip so i don't have to drag
out a monitor next time i mess up.

Sorry for not giving all the information needed.  I followed Jarods
guide and am running fc2.  I connected a monitor to my comp and
eventually was able to get back into my xorg.conf file.  I changed it
back to the original file (provided by Jarods guide) and was able to
boot my box back up and have it work again.

This still brings me back to the question of how do I alter my
xorg.conf file to reflect a higher resoltion.  In the xorg.conf file
that Jarod provides first changed the resolution near the end of the
file from "720:480" to "800:600" but this didn't do anything.  Then i
realized that further up in the file the resolution was stated again
with a sequence of numbers after it that I don't know how to alter..
Sorry that this is such a vague explanation, I am not at my myth box
right now.

Any help on setting a higher res so i can see my whole desktop on my
tv would be appreciated.

thanks


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:24:29 -0500, Tony Rein <trein at one.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
>