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Re: TV-Output Mythbunto 10.10

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Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> Richard Evans <rp.evans.nospam@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>> # Xorg -configure
>> Typing this I get:
>>
>> Fatal Server error:
>> Server is already active for display 0
> 
> Yep, X is already running, you must be doing this without X running:
> 
>>> You will need to boot to run level 3 first.
> 
> I'm not familiar with Mythbunto so I don't know for sure how you change
> runlevels.

Actually it's Mythbuntu, The o was a typo. It's basically Ubuntu 10.10 
with a graphical environment and with MythTV installed. I've set it so 
that MythTV doesn't automatically load, while I try to deal with this 
problem.

> On most distributsions runlevel 3 means text console login only
> and runlevel 4 means graphical login to X.

Perhaps I should do some Googling to try and find out how to do this in 
Ubuntu.

> 
> Depending on your graphical login manager you might have some choice to
> temporary stop X and get a text console login. Simply pressing something
> like ctrl-alt-f2 will not be enough, even though that might give you a
> text console for login X will still be running in the background.

No idea how to stop the graphical stuff starting up. I may have to 
Google that one.

> 
> As Kevin said, X --configure is a really good way to get an xorg.conf to
> use as a starting point if you don't already have that file. But when you
> use the X command X can not already be running, at least not on the same
> display number. If you find it hard to get into runlevel 3 or temporary
> disable X a possible workaround would be to start X on another display
> than :0, a command like the following might be useful:
> 
> X -configure :1
> 
> The above command could even be run from a terminal window on your :0
> display. At least on my Slackware system only root is allowed to run "X
> -configure". The created xorg.conf will be placed in the home directory of
> root. That file should then be moved to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edited.
> 
> regards Henrik

That may be an idea. I'll have to do a bit more experimenting an 
Googling over the next few days.

Thanks.

Richard.

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