[mythtvnz] No Display

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:02:43 +0000, you wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:37 PM Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>  Were there any changes you needed to make to the commands posted on the
>>> Kodi page to make them work for Mythtv?
>>>
>>> -Paul
>>>
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> There were two things I had to do differently.
>>
>> To kill my X session I did
>>
>> ps aux | grep xdg
>>
>> Then I killed the xdg process.
>>
>> Step 4 says to find the string "ConnectedMonitor" in xlog.txt.  I couldn't
>> find that in my xlog.txt.
>>
>> A manual look at that file found this line.
>>
>> (--) NVIDIA(0):     MARANTZ JAPAN, INC. marantz-AVR (DFP-1) (boot,
>> connected)
>>
>> I took note of that when I updated my xorg.conf.
>>
>>         Option  "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-1"
>>         Option  "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/edid.bin"
>>         Option  "IgnoreEDID" "false"
>>         Option  "UseEDID" "true"
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> I tried to kill the X session using the following command; Kill (the
>> process number) and immediately I get a login box and can't access a
>> terminal for other commands.
>> What command did you use to kill X?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
>Hi Paul,
>
>I've just had another go at killing X.  I had to kill this process first.
>
>/bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit xserverrc
>
>Then X restarted and left me at a login prompt.  Then I killed this process
>
>/usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten
>tcp vt7 -novtswitch
>
>After that you should be able to continue with the rest of the instructions.
>
>
>David

Normally, to kill X you stop the display manager.  In Mythbuntu, that
is:

  stop lightdm