[mythtv-users] View console on TV while MythTV running

[Mathew Mrosko]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:12 pm, John Mangan wrote:

Is it possible to ssh in from another machine?  I would think that would be 
much easier, because you're not leaving X on the TV

-Mat

> I hope this hasn't been answered a hundred times before but I searched the
> archive without success.
>
> I am using Knoppmyth to run a test system with MythTv. I am using an nVidia
> 5200 card with TVOut. It works fine but since I am still testing it would
> be nice to be able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console (XTerm is too small/fuzzy to
> be really workable). However when I change to the console screen I just get
> scrambled lines as though the horizontal hold has gone.
>
> I am not familiar enough with the XF86Config-4 file to know what needs to
> be changed (and I'm not sure that's where the problem lies since X displays
> perfectly well). Also the text output during bootup displays perfectly
> well.
>
> Any help gratefully received.

-- 
Mathew Mrosko (mythtv at matmrosko.com)