John, I had problems with the 2nd X server chewing up all my CPU...it would always sit around at 90+%. So I took another look at running one X server with multiple screens...I must have screwed something up the 1st time I ran this, because now it works great! This is the page with examples that I followed to run a dual headed X display:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors I think that the only reason to use the dualheaded xorg binaries that disable VT switching is if you need to have two keyboards running at the same time. For me, I have a single keyboard and mouse, and everything is working great now. Hope that helps, let me know if you want more details! Mike > Hi Mike, > > Any chance you can run through what you did to make this work? > > I tried it today but it messed up my system. I kept getting errors > starting X - something about No V_BIOS. > > I had to revert to my old xorg rpm's > > I'm trying to get it working with an M10000 using the on board S3 chip > and a pvr-350. > > Thanks > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Arndt > > Sent: 10 March 2005 04:15 > > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Running two X servers (with > > PVR350) at the sametime? > > > > > > Thanks for the tip John! Hearing that you had this working > > got me thinking about a web page I found earlier, but never > > finished reading through...this was the one: > > > > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ > > > > The bottom of that page leads to this link for a patched xorg > > rpm for FC3: > > > > ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/xorg-dualhead/ > > > > I installed that and followed the examples given in the > > README and gdm.conf on the above link, and I'm up with mythtv > > running on one display while I type on my desktop using > > another X display! Sweet! > > > > For some reason, one of the X servers runnig is pegging my > > CPU at 97% though. Not sure why that is, but I'll live with > > it for now unless anyone has a solution. > > > > Just wanted to get this email out so it was searchable in the > > archives. Sorry I couldn't respond to the real thread - I > > subscribed in digest mode without thinking about it :(. Thanks again! > > > Mike > > > > > I run my second X server which is a patched XFree so > > > that it doesnt worry about Virtual Terminal switching. > > > So this one just runs and the other normal desktop one switches off > > > when you switch terminals away from it. > > > > I'll try to dig out the patch i used later (or i can > > > send you a pre-built x server if you like). > > > > > > John > > > > > > --- Michael Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm a long time linux user, but new to mythtv. > > > > After following Jarod's great > > > > guide, and using the archives of this list, I have > > > > mythtv up and running! > > > > > > > > I've got a FC3 system with a PVR350 and an old > > > > voodoo3 card in it. I'd like to > > > > run two X servers at the same time - one on the > > > > voodoo3 for my desktop work, > > > > and obviously mythtv on the PVR350. I've got my > > > > xorg.conf setup with two > > > > two ServerLayout sections, and I modified gdm.conf > > > > to connect to both X > > > > servers. All of this works fine, *but*, it seems I > > > > can only use one of the > > > > X servers at a time. If I Ctrl-Alt-F8 over to my > > > > desktop X display running > > > > on my voodoo3, mythtv stops running on my PVR350. > > > > If I Ctrl-Alt-F7 back, to > > > > make my PVR350 X display work, mythtv works fine, > > > > but I obviously then can > > > > not use my desktop display. > > > > > > > > So...any ideas? I'm thinking there must be other > > > > people out there who use > > > > the same system for mythtv and desktop work? I read > > > > one post from the > > > > archives indicating that only one X server can be > > > > active at a time, but the > > > > post was rather old, so I don't know if this is > > > > still the case or not. Let me > > > > know if you want to see my xorg.conf or gdm.conf, or > > anything else! > > > > > > > > One other thing - when I log in on the voodoo3 > > > > display, I get a bunch of > > > > gnome errors about the gnome-settings-daemon quiting > > unexpectedly. > > > > Any ideas on that? I am trying to run gnome on my voodoo3 > > > > display, and I have > > > > Windowmaker running on the PVR350 display. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Mike
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