[mythtv-users] Two separate Master servers?

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> The new server has X on it but it doesn't currently have a Window
>> manager so I cannot run mythtv-setup on that machine directly.
>>
>
> If you have X, you likely have at least TWM.  It's not great, it's not
> pretty, but it's not like you need a full desktop environment just to run X.
>  Or as Robert mentioned, you can just do 'ssh -X' from a machine with a full
> desktop environment.

It's no big deal to emerge xdm and attempt starting it. The bigger
deal going this way is that it assumes a good xorg.conf file, the
right video drivers, and a lot of stuff that's untested. In fact, when
I did this I got a messed up display - bad resolution or monitor rates
- but it doesn't display and I was hoping I wouldn't have to deal with
video drivers at all on this machine. This new hald stuff seems to
have automatically loaded radeon and drm but it doesn't work. Black
screen.

>
> As far as running multiple independent backends, you can use some sed
> scripts to change the config files at runtime, but a better option would be
> to set the 'MYTHCONFDIR' environment variable.  That will change from the
> default (~/.mythtv) to wherever you want.  Also note that mythtv now uses
> the 'config.xml' file for database access.  'mysql.txt' is only maintained
> for backwards compatibility with scripts, and is only used if 'config.xml'
> does not exist.
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I don't understand this last comment about config.xml. How does that
get created, or am I supposed to supply it. In the past it seemed that
you ran the frontend, you gave it an IP address and it found the
server. When you exited the .mythtv directory was created and off you
go. Is that different now?

Thanks,
Mark