[mythtv-users] ATI Radeon Linux TV Support

[Tomi Makinen]

There is dualhead mythtv documentation in mythtv.info . I have used it
to make my projector and tv configuration work, but I have not got it
to work very well.  You have to start another X and  mythfrontend. And
when those go out of sync (I use remote control) it is pain. Also My
tv X-server blanks the screen every now and then.  Now I just start
second X manually when I want to watch recordings from tv.  I tried to
figure out if it was possible to restart X with another config file
without root proviledges, so I could put it in mythfrontend, but have
not figured that out yet.

At the moment I am thinking about buying xbox and using it as tv-frontend.

Xv shows only in primary monitor. If you use fglrxconfig, many
configfiles are easy to do.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:25:14 +0100 (CET), Mark Wormgoor
<mark at wormgoor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> > I got it working(kinda)! Ran the fglrxconfig utility setting monitor 1
> > to be auto and monitor 2 to TV-out... though the auto-thing didn't
> > work for my LCD monitor, so I altered the XF86Config-4 changing AUTO
> > to CRT in  Option "MonitorLayout", then both screens showed colors and
> > everything(with scrolling on the TV since the resolution is too high
> > to fit into the TV).
> >
> >> First off, I should be more specific, when I said you can't run myth
> >> on both, what I meant was with this solution you will only get xv
> >> support on one of the heads, and glx support may be tied to that, so
> >> you may not be able to use myth and play a glx game at the same time
> >> either.
> >
> > Haha, dammit, yeah, figured that out, when neither mythtv or mplayer
> > or anything would show up on my TV, but everything else would...darn,
> > then it doesn't do much good :(
> >
> > There isn't anything I can do about the missing xv then?
> 
> Actually, I just configured this last week (briefly, I am now using a vga
> - scart cable) and had no problems with xv.  You just need to make sure
> that your tv is your first (and I think only) monitor.  I can send you my
> xorg.conf (Fedora Core 2, latest ATI drivers) if you want, but it's on my
> myth frontend, which is turned off ;)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark
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