[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup wont export to a different xserver display (over ssh)

[ryan patterson]

_____________
Ryan Patterson


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> ryan patterson wrote:
> > I need to reconfigure my backend.  The backend machine only has a VGA
> > monitor output and I only have DVI cables right now.  I thought it
> > would be easy to ssh from an other computer and run mythtv-setup by
> > exporting the display.  But mythtv-setup generates a segmentation
> > fault no matter what I do.  I am running ubuntu 7.04 on all the
> > machines.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Set up gdm to allow connections and then from a remote machine, connect
> using XDMCP.
>
> --Yan
> _______________________________________________
>

That sounds like an excellent solution.  But I can't figure out how to
configure XDMCP on my backend without having a monitor on the backend.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20081012/434cf1a8/attachment.htm