On Tue, 5 February, 2008 3:36 pm, Tim Green wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 2:20 PM, Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
I find that in selecting to install the Debian Testing MythTV-Backend package it installs other packages such as xterm and QT but NO xorg server packages. Very odd. I would have thought that X packages such as xterm would depend on xorg-xserver packages - but no.
You don't need a local xserver to run X applications. If you have SSH setup with X forwarding, or you set your DISPLAY environment variable appropriately, then the X applications (eg. xterm) will display on the other computer.
It's shame that you need to run the GUI to configure mythbackend, and forwarding your display might not help either, I even had to switch to KDE to get things working properly locally, let alone remotely. Once that initial setup is done though, you can shutdown X and forget about it.
I have P4 with a DVB-S card in it, and use my iBook G4 for frontend, works a treat.
I was going to take a look at MythBuntu or MythDora, since I don't use the mythbackend box for much else, seemed like a trouble free way to go. If you do take a look, I'd be interested in knowing how you get on.
Cheers.
-Mark
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