Firstly, what a a totally fantastic system. I have tried installing Myth on Redhat 9.0, Fedora Core 1 and 2 all with no luck and now i'm running KnoppMyth with Nova-T DVB drivers with no problems..... well just one small one !

The missues hates to see keyboards and mice lying around so a search on these forums turned up a fantastic app to share a keyboard and mouse between systems http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. I have an XP workstation running the server portion of Synergy and can connect from my KnoppMyth box when run in an Xterm with no problems. I would like to run the app on boot and have tried adding the required lines:



to the /home/mythtv/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc file.

This works ok when I restart fvwm after exiting mythfrontend but not when it initially boots into Myth. I have tried adding these lines to the Xsessions file after moving them around in /.fvwm/.fvwm2rc.

As you can probably tell I'm rather new to all this Linux lark and have Googled all previous stumbling blocks but this one has got me stumped (and its late!) Any help would be much appreciated[url][/url]

Specifically in file /etc/gdm/Session/fvwm file just add '/usr/local/bin/synergyc 192.168.0.18' above 'exec /usr/bin/fvwm'

I run x0rfbserver there.

-cyrus

Hi Cyrus, thanks for the reply.

I tried adding 'exec /usr/bin/synergyc 192.168.0.18 &' before exec /usr/bin/fvwm and got a cryptic message from X before going into mythfrontend saying that my session only lasted 10 seconds and I should sort the problem with /usr/bin/fvwm or check disk space. I then tried putting that line after /usr/bin/fvwm and nothing happened.

According to the Synergy docs, some window managers (Debian) specifically block any third party apps until login for security so it should be run after a user has logged in. Forgive me for stepping back into M$ Windows but something like the 'Startup' group.

I was a bit wrong (edited now), should be 'exec /usr/local/bin/synergyc 192.168.0.18' and no & at the end as it spawns a daemon by default. You might need to add a sleep statement between the two lines as it seems synergy client needs some time to sync up with the server.

Have you run both the server and client with the -f option (foreground) to see they are working fine ? Only after that should you run them as daemons.

It is a good Debian policy. By entering the line in /etc/gdm/Session it implies that the process runs after the user logs in so it is running after login check and before fvwm spawns mythfrontend. 'ps axf' should show the hierarchy as:

BR
-Cyrus

Hello, again thank you for your reply

I have now changed the line in /etc/gdm/Session/fvwm to exec /usr/bin/synergyc 192.168.0.18 (path typo on my part when creating this post) as you have suggested and still get the same error. I also tried a sleep command 'sleep 10' between starting synergy and running fvwm but that now stops me from loggin on at all! SSH into the box and running ps afx shows synergy listed but on a lower level than gdm.



(this was after several login attempts which resulted in the error again and a restart of X)

I did run both client and server in the foreground (-f) beforehand and yes it all worked beautifully.

I should imagine this is a really simple problem but not knowing very much about Linux does not help (although I am thoroughly enjoying the ride!!) At least I have successfully added another DVB card to the system and now have two Nova T DVB cards and a PVR 350 (getting the 350 working on TV out is the last step!)

TIA
Rutger

Hi,
are there any special steps you needed to take to get the Nova T card working?

Does this look like the same card:-
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=27669

Thanks
Mike