[mythtv-users] nvidia tv-out - how do you do it? Better, but not there yet.

[Yan-Fa Li]

Brad Fuller wrote:

Interesting.  It could be a XAuth problem.  There's a neat faq on:

	http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html

that might be of some help.

Yan

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> 
> Yan-Fa Li wrote:
> 
>> If you started two X servers, each should be individually addressable 
>> and setting the DISPLAY variable before starting mythtv should send it 
>> to the correct display.  Try:
>>
>>     export DISPLAY=localhost:0
>>     mythfrontend
>>     [exit myth]
>>
>> and
>>
>>     export DISPLAY=localhost:1
>>     mythfrontend
>>     [exit myth]
>>
>> this should send mythtv both displays, one at a time and then you can 
>> hardcode that value into a startup script.
>>
>> Yan
> 
> Thanks Yan. That sounds easy enough.
> When I do the above, I receive:
> "mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server localhost:0"
> 
> I tried the local host's name and it's IP address with the same result. 
> Do I need to install something in the xorg.conf? Or maybe a modification 
> elsewhere?
> 
> (Obviously, I am not familar with mythtv and X server errors)
> 
> brad
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