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<body>On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:24:31 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Paulgir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulgir@gmail.com" target="_blank">paulgir@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(0,0,255);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(0,0,255);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(0,0,255);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> Were there any changes you needed to make to the commands posted on the Kodi page to make them work for Mythtv?</div></div></div></blockquote>-Paul<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>There were two things I had to do differently.</div><div><br></div><div>To kill my X session I did</div><div><br></div><div>ps aux | grep xdg</div><div><br></div><div>Then I killed the xdg process.</div><div><br></div><div>Step 4 says to find the string "ConnectedMonitor" in xlog.txt. I couldn't find that in my xlog.txt.</div><div><br></div><div>A manual look at that file found this line.</div><div><br></div><div>(--) NVIDIA(0): MARANTZ JAPAN, INC. marantz-AVR (DFP-1) (boot, connected)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I took note of that when I updated my xorg.conf.</div><div><br></div><div><div> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-1"</div><div> Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/edid.bin"</div><div> Option "IgnoreEDID" "false"</div><div> Option "UseEDID" "true"</div></div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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.</div><div>What command did you use to kill X?</div><div><br></div><div>Paul </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(0,0,255);padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You need to kill whatever service starts X, because otherwise when you kill X that service restarts it.<br><br></div><div>To find out try <br><br></div><div>pstree |grep X<br><br></div><div>Mine returns (on this laptop, not mythbuntu)<br><br></div><div>nick@envy ~ $ pstree|grep X<br> |-mdm---mdm-+-Xorg---4*[{Xorg}]<br><br></div><div>therefore mdm is the service that starts X. so<br><br></div><div>sudo service stop mdm<br><br></div><div>should work.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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</blockquote><div>Yep.Stopping Lightdm did the trick.</div><div><br></div><br><br></body></html>