[mythtvnz] No Display
Stephen Worthington
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Fri Sep 18 10:10:55 BST 2015
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
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