[mythtv-users] how to set-up second display for mythfrontend

[Julian Cerruti]

Hello all,

I'm still stuck with my problem trying to use the
second screen or a dual-head configuration for
mythfrontend.

In an X server configured with two screens (:0.0
and :0.1), does anyone know how to tell KDE to use
ONLY the first screen instead of both (that is, start
only one kwin, kdesktop and kicker instead of one per
screen).

Another alternative I tested is to use Xnest. It
gives me - almost - the right functionality but it is
too slow to render video: you can tell one frame from
the next at simple eyesight. Does anyone know about
any  available alternative to make Xnest perform
better?

Finally, I guess my last option would be to use
two simultaneous X servers. Unfortunatelly, looks like
that is not supported by default in X.org. I've seen
some mention about this topic in backstreet Ruby, but
changing to a specific - backlevel - kernel and
XFree86 distribution doesn't seem like an attractive
option for me. Does anyone have any experience in this
area you might want to share?

More context about what I am trying to do here:
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-January/070227.html


Again, I am stuck at this last step. I would
greatly appreciate ANY hint.

Regards,

Julian.
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Re: [mythtv-users] how to set-up second display for mythfrontend

[Brad Templeton]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:48:53PM -0800, Julian Cerruti wrote:
 I'm still stuck with my problem trying to use the
 second screen or a dual-head configuration for
 mythfrontend.
 In an X server configured with two screens (:0.0
 and :0.1), does anyone know how to tell KDE to use
 ONLY the first screen instead of both (that is, start
 only one kwin, kdesktop and kicker instead of one per
 screen).

Dunno about that, but it won't hurt you to have a window manager
on the 2nd screen will it?  I mean you don't need one, but.

One gotcha, if you are using nvidia video cards and probably some
others is they will only do an xvideo window on the screen they think
is screen 0.  (I would think they should let you do it on either but
not both if they only have one set of logic to do xvideo, but what can
you do.)

So you will want the mythfrontend to run on screen 0 as far as the
card is concerned.

With some trickery, this does not have to be screen 0 to the window
manager, however.

And we're talking possible hard crash if you get it wrong.
 
 Finally, I guess my last option would be to use
 two simultaneous X servers. Unfortunatelly, looks like
 that is not supported by default in X.org. I've seen

Actually, I am not sure it's supported in the sense it's not in
the config file.  You make two config files, one for each card.  I
don't know if you can really have two X servers on two heads of the
same video card, that sounds scary to try.

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