I have MythTV running on an HP Proliant under ubuntu 12 I have a sony playTV dual tuner unit plugged in and a digitalnow pcie quad tuner card. They both seem to be erratic and go missing in action every so often. When I go into the MythTV backend setup and open the tuners I see the frontend Id is &q...

What messages do you get on your linux box when you initiate the virtual session using "vncserver" - my assumption is you have actually started a session on the linux machine before you try connecting remotely.

I seem to have gotten a VNC session up and running by changing the last line in the.vnc/xstartup file from "x-window-manager &" to "gnome-session" (at least I think this is what has fixed it - have been stuffing around trying a few things) Unfortunately it gives me Unity (whi...

Re the different desktop, I believe (as stated I'm a newbie as well so this is definately a case of the blind leading the blind - anyone with a bit more expertise feel free to correct - I can take it ) Ubuntu can have different desktops depending on what particular flavour or style you like. Some of...

Just cracked it (I think) - found an interesting article at m with some info at section 4A. Basically my newb interpretation but seems to work: Create a new file in your home directory called .xsession and put the following line into it "gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback" This seems t...

No idea as to a solution but have the same problem so that makes two of us. Will continue trying things but I'm a newbie so its unlikely I will solve it.