On 10/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike LaPlante</b> <<a href="mailto:mike@dividia.net">mike@dividia.net</a>> wrote:<div><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;">
Todd wrote:<br>> I have an Ubuntu based frontend/backend/desktop system. I may have<br>> an extra monitor available and am pondering whether slapping a dual<br>> headed card into the box and using both monitors might work to allow,
<br>> say, myth doing its thing full screen on one while seeing the desktop<br>> in the other.<br>><br>> Feasible? Goofy? Problematic? Pointless?<br>><br>> Recommendations on a thrifty and quiet PCI Express based dual headed
<br>> analog display card?<br>><br>My MBE is setup in the "office" at my house. It has dual monitors on it.<br>By the way, once you go dual you never go back, so be careful. I first<br>went dual with an old crappy monitor on its last leg, when it died I was
<br>feening for a replacement.<br><br>Often my girlfriend is watching TV on the MFE in the living room (some<br>silly show I don't want to watch) so I go back to the office and fire up<br>mythfrontend on one monitor and use the other monitor for some light
<br>browsing in firefox.<br><br>So its certainly feasible. I'm using an el cheapo AGP FX5200 with two<br>VGA monitors. The only problem I have is that my system is pretty old<br>with only a gig of RAM. Firefox gets slow and mythfrontend gets jerky if
<br>all 3 of my tuners are going.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>works great for me. I have my FE/BE have dual X displays. one display is 1080p to the projector and the other is a 15" LCD to do admin business on the server.
<br><br>The only issue i have is when the mouse is focused on the LCD and using the FE and deleting shows the new windows that pops open isnt in focus. I have to move the mouse to the Projector X screen in order to work.
<br><br>Mitchell<br>