<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Niels Dybdahl</b> <<a href="mailto:Niels@dybdahl.dk">Niels@dybdahl.dk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><br>I have had success with the
xorg.conf that you can find on <a href="http://niels.dybdahl.dk/public/xorg.conf.twinview" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://<span id="st" name="st" class="st">niels</span>.<span id="st" name="st" class="st">
dybdahl</span>.dk/public/xorg.conf.twinview</a> with a nVidia GeForce4 MX440.<br>It creates two desktops, so that MythTV can be maximized on one of them, while you can work on the other. My
xorg.conf is designed for a TV and a monitor, so you probably have to adapt it a little.<br>Note
that I have experienced severe problems when running Gnome but not with
KDE: If MythTV is showing a recording on the TV, then Gnome will hang
after you have started two applications. Gnome will also show a window
for the "authentication indicator". With KDE there are no issues.
<br><br><span id="st" name="st" class="st"></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div>The idea of using the xorg.conf at <a href="http://niels.dybdahl.dk/public/xorg.conf.twinview" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://<span id="st" name="st" class="st">niels</span>.<span id="st" name="st" class="st">dybdahl</span>.dk/public/xorg.conf.twinview</a><br>
to be able to run MythTV on one screen and work on another screen<br>
is very appealing - so I tried it. I'm using kernel <a href="http://2.6.16.5">2.6.16.5</a> and Nvidia<br>
driver 8756, so I had to change "ConnectedMonitor" to "UseDisplayDevice".<br>
<br>
It really works. Two screens come up, one on the TV (:2.1), and one on<br>
the monitor (:2.0). Using the keyboard, I can enter the command
"mythfrontend -display :2.1", and the frontend comes up on the TV
screen. But, choosing Watch TV or playback of a recorded program
results in only audio - no video.<br>
The screen goes blank during playback, and the menus come back when playback exits.<br>
<br>
Have you experienced anything like this? Or maybe suggest what to
look for in the logs? I use both -verbose 5 and -logverbose 5
when starting the X server, so there's lots of log data. I don't
see anything that looks like an error in the logs so far.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any ideas you might have.<br>
<br>
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Ed Neff<br>
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