Ok this is hopefully an easy question that shows my ignorance. How the hell do you stop gdm in R5E50? it is not listed in /etc/init.d anymore...
I assume something changed now that Xorg is used but I can't figure out how to stop X and it is driving me batty.

This is an issue because I'm trying to reinstall the nvidia drivers because I can't get XvMC to work, it always errors out with:
XvMCWrapper: Could not load hardware specific XvMC library
"/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1".
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory

And the lib file doesn't exist, I read it was created by the nvidia installer, but I can't use the nvidia installer cause I can't get X to stop. Hope that makes sense and someone can help...

Supposedly, this does it:

pkill X11

It doesn't really do the trick for me. Sometimes it recycles, and sometimes it doesn't.

Doesn't do a thing for me...

Ok for future reference I fixed the XVMC problem, basically the libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 file did exist, but was in /usr/lib and not usr/X11r6/lib. Changed the path in /etc/X11/XvMCConfig and now XvMC works, yay HD finally!

I would still like to know how to stop X though...

Well as stated in many threads about E50 - there is no gdm in E50. Now if you want to stop X altogether, that is not have an X session at all, then the command is
If you just want to restart X try

Thanks for that command, I had tried init 3 but it did nothing, I guess it is telinit...

And yes I did want to stop it completely so the other threads weren't helpful...

Why did you have to do file editing to get xvmc playback to work? For fun or was this needed to fix a mistake hidden in R5E50? I'm surprised this wasn't found during the pre-release testing?!

I am planning on upgrading my working R5D1 install to R5E50. I regularly use XVMC to playback HDTV recordings I've made. I am going to have to screw around with config file editing in order to get xvmc to work?

Eric

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I'm guessing it might be because I've gone from r5a30 to r5d1 to r5e50 via the auto upgrade each time, and have previously updated the nvidia drivers in those verisons. Maybe the file was moved by the nvidia stuff and then restored to the wrong spot by the backup restore? I have seen quite a few R5E50 XvMC problems in searching the forum though, might be related, but not this exact problem...

I can confirm this as the same on my system. Changed the path and xvmc worked.

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It would of been an issue because of an upgrade from regular X to Xorg. The paths change awhile back for Xorg and the nvidia drivers.

It is good to know that XvMC works in R5E50. The only thing that does not work for me is that I need a 1280x720 resolution and it doesn't work when I add it as the first resolution in xorg.conf like this:
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x720" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection

Does someone has the same problem ?

Same here, sometimes. I usually run the GUI in 720, and display TV in 1080i/720p depending on the source. But sometimes X would get goofy, and would go into a virtual 1920x1080, where it wanted to scroll around a smaller apperture, causing the picture to be way off-center, and chopped.
Or it would play TV ok, but show the Myth GUI as 1/4 size. Weird stuff, all things I'd seen before when experimenting with modelines.
It would be ok for a while, and then it would freak out, and I'd have to shut the machine down completely.

I "cured" it by removing all modelines but 1280x720, and displaying everything that way. It's a compromise, but it's not driving me crazy anymore.

If it helps here is the modeline I am using, it came from the nvidia drivers so I would guess it would work best with them. Works perfectly for me over a DVI to HDMI cable to my 720p lcd tv...

ModeLine "ATSC-720-60p" 74.25 1280 1320 1376 1650 720 722 728 750

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