On Sonntag, 13. November 2005 19:41, Andre Bischof wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Stefan Lucke wrote: > ... > >>>>Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [XvVideoOut]: patch version (2005-07-20) > >>>>Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [XvVideoOut]: Could not connect to > >>>>X-server > >>> > >>> > >>>You have to start your X-server _before_ you may start vdr with > >>>softdevice and xv out. > >> > >>The output above is from a term in kde, so I suppose the X-server should > >>be running. > >> > > > > > > So vdr is running with another userid as you are logged in. > > 1. you need to set th DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=:0.0) > > 2. the user who wants to access your display needs permissions to do that > > For my tests, when running vdr from root I do sux which keeps > > authorisation to x-server contact. > > I can't manage to do that. If I try to run vdr as user root, vdr-kbd > complains to refuse to run with root priviledges. If I do "su vdr" > whoami tells me to be still root - is that what you meant by "sux"? > Because I don't know sux, and nothing like this is installed. Maybe sux is specific to SuSe. > > I tried: > root@linux:/usr/lib/vdr# DISPLAY=:0.0;xset s off;vdr-daemon > --config=/var/lib/vdr --lib=/usr/lib/vdr/plugins -d > ib/vdr/plugins -vo xv:" -u vdr -g vdr > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > xset: unable to open display ":0.0" > > as mentioned in the link you provided at the end of your posting. So as normal user you may grant access to your x-session via xhost command "xhost +host_name" . -- Stefan Lucke
