Thanks for the clarification, that is exactly what I wanted to know. <br>
<br>
BTW, I had an X-desktop running simultaneously on my monitor and TV-out
for 4 days. Looked and felt great, but it stopped working last
night before I finished following Jarod's guide. Some of the
packages I tried to install couldn't be found by yum (tveeprom-ivtv,
nvidia*kmdl*,..) so I did the minor upgrade from 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 to
2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 hoping it would help if the release numbers
matched. [I am not a yum guru.] Restoring my xorg.conf
file] didn't get X back for me. Salt in the wound, this was
all to get "rhgb boot screen" to load (according to the guide) and I
still don't know what the "rhgb boot screen" is. If it turns out
to be something like "Red Hat Grub Bootloader" then I did this all for
nothing.<br>
<br>
Given that my system was completely fresh, I conclude that this package
system seems to have some serious flaws. Would compiling
everything from source be more reliable?<br>
<br>
-Jim<br>
<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Simpson</b> <<a href="mailto:jeffsimpson@alum.wpi.edu">jeffsimpson@alum.wpi.edu</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><span class="q">On 6/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Carrig</b> <<a href="mailto:james.carrig@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">james.carrig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span></div><div><div></div><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is Myth usable on a monitor + TV system without getting X to run on<br>the TV-out? What is it like / what am I giving up? What if the<br>monitor is not in the same room as the TV?</blockquote></span></div><div><div><br>
If
you don't get X working on the TV-out, you won't get any menus - ie,
the recorded program menus, etc. Basically, all you can do is browse
live TV, assuming you can get into liveTV without pressing any buttons.
<br><br>You can blind-navigate the menus, though, or use a monitor to
select a recording to play. Once it's playing, it doesn't need X for
anything (not even pausing, rewind, ff, osd, etc)<br></div></div><div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am asking because I plan to use MythTV only part-time and:<br><br>1) I don't want to give up running X on my monitor <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2) I can't get the ivtv driver ivtvdev_drv.o to load (a whole nother post)<br>3) I see from Jeff's post below that it might not be satisfying<br>anyway. Very disappointing because that is not what is advertised<br>when people say X is multi-headed.
<br></blockquote></span></div><div><div> <br>It works fine for
everything except the ivtvdev driver. If you had a geforce card with
tvout or similar, you could use it simultaneously.<br><br>Something
else you can do is just run myth windowed in your current X session and
tell it to output to the PVR-350. You use X on the monitor to do
everything, and once you start playing it will "black" the monitors and
put the output to the TV. you can actually minimize the "black" and
continue using X while myth is doing it's thing.
<br><br>In any case, all of these options are far from ideal.<br><br>Maybe I am the only one that has the high-cpu-usage-when-multiheading-x-with-ivtv problem, has anybody else even tried it?<br><br> - Jeff<br></div></div>
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