vdr-sxfe isn't working for me at the moment. I'm using 1.0.6+cvs20110213.0131-1 from Tobias Grimm's repository. I've tried it on two different PCs, both running Debian unstable amd64; neither of them are the same PC VDR is running on. I can't check it on my VDR box at the moment, but it did work a couple of days ago and I don't think it's been upgraded since.
It prints:
vdr-sxfe 1.0.90-cvs (build with xine-lib 1.1.19, using xine-lib 1.1.19)
VDR server not given, searching ... Found VDR server: host 192.168.1.68, port 37890 [5697] [vdr-fe] GNOME screensaver disabled [5697] [xine-vo ] wire_video_driver() FAILED (vo_driver != vos_driver) [5697] [vdr-fe] wire_video_driver() for osdscaler failed [5697] [xine-vo ] wire_video_driver() FAILED (vo_driver != vos_driver) [5697] [vdr-fe] wire_video_driver() for osdreorder failed Segmentation fault
I can't get a useful backtrace, because it's stripped.