[mythtv-users] mythtv SVN, and xorg w/ dual DISPLAYs (not twinview) questions

[Niels Dybdahl]

On 5/16/06, Gary Dezern <gary at garyndenise.org> wrote:
>
> First, I'm started to get interested in running one of the more recent
> SVN versions of mythtv - for the newer XvMC stuff I see being
> committed.  (This would be on an nvidia 5200.)  Does anyone have a
> suggested revision that is "mostly stable."?
>
> Second - I read somewhere (on this list, I think) about a person running
> X with two displays on their 5200 card, but rather than configuring them
> with twinview, they did something so that each monitor was a seperate X
> "display."  In other words, they have a DVI display attached to the
> nv5200 as well as a CRT monitor.  When mythfrontend starts, it gets the
> DVI (DFP) monitor (:1), and then a separate X is started on the CRT
> (:0).  Anyway, I'm thinking about trying that out, but I can't seem to
> find the original information on it.  An xorg sample would be great.



I have set up a system with one X-session on the TV and one on the Monitor.
The system is running on Fedora Core 4 with a nVidia GeForce4 MX440 and the
xorg.conf can be found on: http://niels.dybdahl.dk/public/xorg.conf.twinview

Note that I had problems using Gnome on that configuration (Gnome locked up
after starting two applications, when MythTV was showing a recording on the
TV, A window with "authentication indicator" shows up and can not be
closed). These problems did not occur when using KDE.

Niels Dybdahl
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