[mythtv-users] rpms for Mandrake
skeeterskip
skeeterskip at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 5 21:04:48 UTC 2003
KDE automatically logs in as root. When I look at rpm
files for mythtv, they say "root" as owner.
I can run freevo from this terminal and other programs
such as xawtv and my fm radio program as well. I'm
using SSH right now.
I'll try and post more later.
--- Ray Olszewski <ray at comarre.com> wrote:
> skeeter -- The most usual reason for getting the
> message you report
> ("cannot connect to X server") is that the userid
> under which X is running
> differs from the userid you try to start the program
> as. Please confirm
> that after starting X, you are not su'ing to root or
> to mythtv in the
> terminal window before trying to start mythfrontend.
>
> If that is not it, please post the complete output
> ... the actual command
> that you type in the xterm and everything that
> mythfrontend (try that one,
> not mythtv) posts in response to it. I very much
> suspect we are all missing
> something "obvious" here, even if I've guessed the
> wrong "obvious" thing
> above.
>
> This sounds much more like an X problem than a
> MythTV problem, in any case.
> Can you start other X applications -- xine, xawtv,
> or whatever you happen
> to have around ... even Xeyes would serve for a test
> -- from this same xterm?
>
> At 11:40 AM 3/5/2003 -0800, skeeterskip wrote:
> >Michael,
> >
> >I run either one of those commands and get the same
> >error message.
> [old stuff deleted]
>
>
>
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