[mythtv] G400 TV-Out

Emmett Pate mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:48:07 -0500


First of all: Thank you to all the developers of MythTV.  This looks like it 
has the potential to be a great system.  I'm anxious to get the final bugs 
worked out and start using it.

Here's my question: I'm using a Matrox G400 Dual Head with the Matrox X11 
drivers.  After starting X, I get the mythfrontend on both the CRT and the 
TV-OUT.  However, when I select "Watch TV", the TV-OUT goes blank and the 
Television only displays on the CRT.  Is this an additional X setting or 
something in MythTV?

Also, since this is intended to be a dedicated PVR, I don't have KDE *or* 
GNOME installed.  I just run "startx", get an xterm window and then run 
"mythfrontend".  When I select "Watch TV", X displays a window "marquee" - I 
click the mouse and the TV displays full-screen.  Is it possible to have X 
start MythTV as the "window manager" and startup full-screen?

Thanks for the help,

Emmett