From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QL97x-0003Y8-4i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 07:19:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 697931C005; Sat, 14 May 2011 07:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BBCE1C005 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 07:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3160695wyi.40 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 00:17:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=5NDfZ8xib4RRaqM4kTY9RawDDp+bwgUxritHmPdYrRY=; b=njoNzyCVcMBaYh/I4e69FguMwdPrWqodts8ke5SBTPQ9QS2MvHg92sHm8KdcBi2lbm 8inOstDqsO36chLJzu64pYPaWGtWJwHegjZDbQE+QMUVhHfvGZFwe4vF0iLXl2/rFxLo M/lul3tzlHwjcpLPlUnII891nC4KE2PPhX87s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=wi+e+WyMZ3DPsKblf3jT8h6HqOLdLNYphpbXBsDKwxxTzPLyKQstIMkjqa9Pdw7OZE cAUNWbD4+n8kXvabY4//xtiPo8v331vWwmD9ckaYOS8feih13hIfVNadQHajMw3Vbz8l 5H9Ue5WfivwWljaH0CohNdXlADFbFwrXQsXWg= Received: by 10.216.82.77 with SMTP id n55mr2249437wee.52.1305357458050; Sat, 14 May 2011 00:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n42sm1488413weq.1.2011.05.14.00.17.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 May 2011 00:17:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] media center with gentoo Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:16:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DCE245E.8040601@waagmeester.co.za> In-Reply-To: <4DCE245E.8040601@waagmeester.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105140916.50400.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: deb80cdf4ca9fb3298edab602dfa0551 Apparently, though unproven, at 08:42 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Coert Waagmeester did opine thusly: > Hello all, > > Building myself a new media center setup. > I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def > video. > > Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place. > Normal Gentoo install. > > How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC? > Which (xdm,kdm,etc) should I use for this? > Or should I just start an xsession with xbmc out of some sort of init > script? > > On the XBMC forum I have found this link, and will try to get that going > in the meantime. > http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=41739 > > Any other media center tips would be appreciated! > Also going to try and put a normal USB plug on one of the old xbox > controllers. Inspect /etc/inittab, especially the last section relating to xdm, this refers you to /etc/init.d/xdm which uses DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm Setting DISPLAYMANAGER to a script of your own should work. Perhaps /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone could be useful here. The point being, the xdm function in the init scripts does not have to start a full display manager, it can launch anything of your choice -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com