[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

[David Cramblett]

>> Hello all,
>>
>> Have I done something so stupid that it's not worth responding to or are 
>> we running out of things to try? I'm all but given up at my end. I feel 
>> like something must work but I can't seem to break through and I just 
>> don't have the time to put anything more into it. I've already wasted 
>> for more time than should have  on it.
>>
>> Damian
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Damian,

Not sure what exactly is going on with your ssh session, it is possible 
that some x11 tunneling is happening that may cause some issues.  It 
would be better if you could launch the startx command form your mythtv 
machine locally.  You mentioned that there was some issue with using the 
command line?  It is all garbled?  Are you launching from another 
command window inside of X or are you alt-F1 'ing to a text console?

I would recommend you disable X from automatically starting for a while 
so you can manually start the X server to do your testing.  What Linux 
distribution are you using?  On many, what you can do is edit the file 
/etc/inittab and comment out (put a # in front of) the last line, 
something like this:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

change to:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

then you can run:

$ init -q

from the command line and it will shutdown X and your login manger like 
xdm, gdm or what ever your system is running.


Then your system will only boot up into a command line and you can 
launch X by running:

$ startx

so that you can see the output and start and stop X easier.


David