[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines
Damian Surr
damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Tue Jun 12 09:11:06 UTC 2007
I understand now that I should start X locally with verbose 5 and then
go in via SSH just for grabbing the log file once the display has messed up.
I'll do that as soon as I get back.
Cheers
Damian
Steve Smith wrote:
> David,
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 11/06/07, *David Cramblett* <david at functionalchaos.net
> <mailto:david at functionalchaos.net>> wrote:
>
>
> >> 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
>
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