[mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-)
Brad Fuller
bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 7 19:58:44 UTC 2006
Steve Daniels wrote:
> Replying to my first post... how embarrassing!
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Daniels"
> <steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:52 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-)
>
>>
>> I think what I need is two seperate xorg.conf's and gdm.conf set up
>> to call the properly. I'm just going down this route now, but would
>> really appreciate some help. It'd be great if someone who has already
>> done something like this or similair could donate their config files.
>> I've googled till I'm blue in the face, but with people haveing so
>> many different names for this type of configuration it's hard to find
>> any real results. Any info I seem to find appears to be outdated as
>> well :-(
>>
>
> Just googlin again and found this post:
>
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March/078557.html
>
> The second one down remindinded me about the following links..
>
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/
>
> More specifically:
>
> ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/xorg-dualhead/
>
> I remember checking the above's mirror and seeing out of date packages
> and being disheartend. But just checked the above ftp site and found
> they're not so out of date after all. So I'm currently downloading
> ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/xorg-dualhead/xorg-x11-6.8.2-37dualhead.src.rpm
> which will hopefully compile to allow me to run two Xorg servers at once.
>
> Does anyone else have experience with this?
I have the same setup: MX4000 - one output feeding a CRT at 1280 and the
S-Video feeding a tv. Most of the time, the mythfrontend is running on
the S-Video and I use the CRT for checking mythtv, running mythtv-setup,
etc.
Only one xorg.conf:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "ScreenLCD"
Screen 1 "ScreenTV" RightOf "ScreenLCD"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
#NEW FROM FC2
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name
of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "v4l"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "MonitorLCD"
VendorName "Envision"
ModelName "EN-710e"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 130.0
#Energy Star - turns monitor off/on
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "MonitorTV"
VendorName "Panasonic"
ModelName "A TV"
HorizSync 30.0 - 50.0
VertRefresh 60.0
#Energy Star - turns monitor off/on
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidiaLCD"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "BFG"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidiaTV"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "BFG"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
#added NvAGP 13Dec2005
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "ScreenLCD"
Device "nvidiaLCD"
Monitor "MonitorLCD"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "ScreenTV"
Device "nvidiaTV"
Monitor "MonitorTV"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "480x480" "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVOverScan" "1.0"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
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