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Apparently, though unproven, at 08:42 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Coert |
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Waagmeester did opine thusly: |
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> Hello all, |
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> Building myself a new media center setup. |
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> I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def |
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> video. |
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> Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place. |
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> Normal Gentoo install. |
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> How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC? |
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> Which (xdm,kdm,etc) should I use for this? |
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> Or should I just start an xsession with xbmc out of some sort of init |
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> script? |
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> On the XBMC forum I have found this link, and will try to get that going |
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> in the meantime. |
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> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=41739 |
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> Any other media center tips would be appreciated! |
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> Also going to try and put a normal USB plug on one of the old xbox |
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> controllers. |
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Inspect /etc/inittab, especially the last section relating to xdm, this refers |
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you to /etc/init.d/xdm which uses DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm |
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Setting DISPLAYMANAGER to a script of your own should work. |
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Perhaps /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone could be useful here. |
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The point being, the xdm function in the init scripts does not have to start a |
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full display manager, it can launch anything of your choice |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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