Ubuntu Multimedia :: XBMCBuntu - Running 2 X Displays At Boot?
Jan 14, 2011
I have a Asus EEE Box EB1007-W0067 running as htpc in my livingroom. Due to the limited hardware in the box i'm running Ubuntu server with a minimal xorg-xserver installation. The system autoinlogs into the xbmc user and spawns a xserver only running XBMC. Slim,fast and no fuzz . So far i'm realy happy about the setup. 1080p? no problem.
However, since there is no Spotify Addon for XBMC yet (in development but still way to buggy to use in a none development enviroment) i have to fallback to running Spotify native. And here comes the problem; I can't start Spotify in XBMC because XBMC will run it in the background. And since my wife must be able to use the system i've to come out with something easy to use. Is it possible to make ubuntu-server to boot into 2 diffrent X-Displays. One running XBMC and one running Spotify, i think my wife (and others) would be able to switch displays with ctr-alt-F7/F8.
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Nov 24, 2009
I have a multiheaded setup with one X server and two displays i.e. :0.0 and :0.1. Is there a way to have one instance of an X client for example xeyes and have this displayed on both displays at the same time. I want one keyboard/mouse that controls both displays. I do not want to use Xinerama.
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Jun 2, 2011
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May 6, 2010
My system runs fine, I have an Nvidia card and when I boot up I guess it would be Plymouth displays some stuff; several lines and it goes by too quick for me to be able to read much of it.
Then it goes back to normal and the login in screen appears like normal. Everything is normal except for the black display and the stuff that is displayed before the login screen appears. Even with this, my system boots up in under 20 seconds at last check.
Is there anything I should/could do to get the errors or information lines or whatever they are to not show up?
I installed Lucid during beta (I think) and have kept up with the updates and all appears smooth to me. I have a super nice custom grub2 screen.
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Jul 22, 2011
I was wondering if anyone has a solution to my problem: I run Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop (everything is great) but when I come home I like to connect it to a larger monitor. This will work fine, but presently the only way for me to get that to work is to go into my nVidia settings and reconfigure the displays every time I do this. Is there I can make my system recognize it should change displays as soon as I plug in the monitor?
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I'm on HP tx2000 Tablet PC, with nVidia GeForce 6150 Go onboard, 4GB of RAM, Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 Desktop. I keep getting a blank screen after boot splash when I'm on BATTERY POWER. Though I get a blank screen, the screen comes alive when I SUSPEND the laptop by closing the lid, and then RESUME the laptop. Then I can see the logon box and whole desktop.
Usually people get problem by suspending their laptops (usually the screen not coming back after resuming), but now I SOLVE the problem by suspending my laptop. Well like I said I can somehow get the screen right, but I really can't (and don't want to) suspend and resume my laptop every time I boot. Problem occurs REGARDLESS of type of display driver I use. nVidia proprietary, nouveau... whichever driver I use, I get the same conclusion.
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Sep 9, 2011
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Mar 6, 2010
I got out my old Fuji Finepix s3100 and set it to web cam mode to see if anything had changed in the world of usb video drivers. Lo and behold it worked! I can watch myself on cheese web cam booth. kewl, but I wanted more. So, just recently hearing about chatroulette on the Daily Show, I click and wahla no go . After flash comes up and asks for and receives user permission to access my hardware, I click to find a random stranger, and my camera displays yellow and blue lines across its onscreen display box. I notice that movement is noticed by the camera. If I move I notice a change in background/lines. As far as I can tell, my camera is not a fault. I mean it works for local viewing. Is this a flash or possibly a chatroulette problem?
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Jun 5, 2010
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When I am using flash a lot of times it will just display a grey screen or just stops. I wanted to use Turbotax today but I can not because of this.
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Jan 9, 2010
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Mar 24, 2011
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Aug 31, 2010
I am posting here in hopes of getting some assistance with a problem I have been having. I have been running Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop, but I recently decided to try Windows 7. Windows 7 would not boot from CD/DVD as long as Ubuntu was still on the computer, so I completely reformatted the hard drive and tried to install it again. The computer would still not boot from the CD/DVD drive, even after removing Ubuntu. I have gone into the BIOS and changed the boot order so that CD/DVD is listed as number one, but it still will not work. I have also used F12 and selected boot from CD/DVD but this did not work either.
The Windows 7 disc works fine on other machines, so I know it's not a problem with the physical disc. The hard drive has been completely debugged and zeroed out. The funny thing is, the Ubuntu disc will boot from the CD drive just fine, but other discs won't work. I have tried to boot a Windows 7 and Windows XP disc but neither will work. In both instances I get "press any key to continue" but when I press a key nothing happens. I feel this has something to do with the Ubuntu, as my computer would boot from this drive with no issues before I used Ubuntu.I have spent several days trying to solve this problem to no avail.
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Apr 20, 2011
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Aug 9, 2011
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Code:
#!/bin/bash
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I did the chmod u+x on the script. It does not run my program, though. I have no idea if it was a naming issue or not. I do not understand the naming scheme.When it boots, and doesn't run my program, I can type sudo qct at the command prompt and it runs fine.
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Apr 28, 2010
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May 22, 2010
when I tried to boot into my PC yesterday, it would run through the normal loading process until it got to the login screen. There it loaded the splash screen,but the login box never comes up. I have rebooted several times, tried recovery, and run several reconfigure gdm options I have seen on the forums. Nothing seems to work.
I have restarted gdm, it goes back to the same screen again. If I startx, I was able to get to a desktop with several things missing, and unable to go into anything that required sudo permission. Also, the shutdown and restart optons were grayed out in the menu.
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Jul 9, 2010
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0 run ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just one session
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0 troubleshoot error
0 exit to console
0 restart x
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Dec 6, 2010
There was windows 7 Home Basic pre installed onto Hcl Desktop at my Office, then I installed ubuntu 10.04 to it, everything was ok untill I restarted. When I select windows 7 from dual boot, it takes me back to dual boot grub page. So I did inserted Windows 7 cd and restored windows by this
Code:
bootrec.exe /fixboot
Now only windows 7 is working and booting. I want ubuntu 10.04 on the dual boot, how and what is exact method of recovering ubuntu without harming windows 7? Is it with ubuntu 10/04 cd?? If i do live cd and restore grub, will windows 7 work?? I haven't given any details of hd0 and root, i'll manage, just tell the procedure.
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Jan 16, 2011
I have a small but annoying problem... I have two scripts that I want to run automatically one at boot and one at shutdown. For the one at boot I tried to put it in rc.local or to create a file in /etc/init.d/ based on the others files in the folder but nothing worked... I need it to run system-wide and not once a specific user is logged in.
For the script at shutdown I don't know how to do it but it can be user specific or system-wide I don't really care. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 64bits with kernel 2.6.35-24-generic
PS. I should add that when executed manually both scripts works perfectly well and I don't need those script to run continuously in the background, just run and quit.
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Apr 2, 2011
I have a jar file which runs as the server with a GUI in my machine and if that starts up i can control my machine with the client in my android phone through LAN. Manually everything works fine if i login and start the server.
What I want to do
1) The server(jar file) should be started at boot
2) This should be available to all users irrespective of who is logged in and if multiple users are logged in simultaneously.
What I have already tried
1) I have tried to add this to the Startup Applications but it does not work always due to some reason after switching between users but even if it works thats not the solution i need because these settings are for a specific user and works after login
2) I tried adding this to rc.local file, but does not work when i login with any user, not sure why. I also tried putting them into all the runlevels (rc*.d folders), but nothing seems to be working. I am not quite sure if i understand how these methods work but when i did boot the server was not there.
3) Manually if i run the jar and switches the user with the first user still logged in, then the server is as good as not running for the second, but if i try to run the jar again, it fails because there is already a process which is running but for first user. If I switch back to first user i have the server.
The Files
1) I have the jar file to execute in /usr/local/bin/
2) I have a shell script in /etc/init.d/ which executes the java - jar command
3) I have the links to rc*.d for all runlevels for the above script
Nothing in the above seems to be working. I just need one process running for all the users, but i never could see the server starting on startup. If I manually start the server its only available to the user who started it.
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Nov 24, 2010
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occasional crashes when I get click happy but playback works most of the time. some times i have to logout in order to try it again. authorized itunes purchases work thru it.
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Feb 25, 2010
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