[mythtvnz] No Display

[Paulgir]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:10:55 +1200, Stephen Worthington  
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> 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


That worked fine.I used 'stop lightdm' to kill X and switched to TTY with  
Ctrl-Alt-F1 and proceeded from there.

Thanks Guys

-Paul