[mythtvnz] No Display

[Paulgir]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:24:31 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> 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
>
> You need to kill whatever service starts X, because otherwise when you  
> kill X that service restarts it.
>
> To find out try
> pstree |grep X
>
> Mine returns (on this laptop, not mythbuntu)
>
> nick at envy ~ $ pstree|grep X
>     |-mdm---mdm-+-Xorg---4*[{Xorg}]
>
> therefore mdm is the service that starts X. so
>
> sudo service stop mdm
>
> should work.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtvnz mailing list
>> mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
>> http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz
>> Archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/
>>
>
Yep.Stopping Lightdm did the trick.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/mythtvnz/attachments/20150922/1e837b91/attachment.html>