[mythtv-users] OT: setting up two running X ?

[Guillaume Membré]

Ok thanks, I'll try this
Tell me if I'm wrong but :
my first X is up and running well, so I don't modify anything on it.
I create a second Xorg.conf pointing to my second video card and
launch my second X with this second Xorg.conf with the options you
told me.

Great, I'll try this next week and told you how it works.
Thanks again :)
Guillaume

On 3/9/06, Schlaegel <vthtym0505 at schlaegel.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Guillaume Membré <guillaume.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My question may be out of topic but I have read through the list that
> > some people have set up two running server X in order to get 2
> > independent displays.
> >
> > Here is my situation: I have one pc which is my mythbox and my desktop
> > box. I have two video cards and I would like to setup on my AGP card
> > my normal desktop and on my second card mythtv.
> >
> > I can use xinerama to setup this but there is the problem of the mouse
> > cursor which can go from one screen to the second. It will annoy me
> > while I am watching a movie and my girlfriend surfing the web.
> >
>
> You can use the new xorg 6.9 or xorg 7 to have multiple copies of the
> xorg server running at the same time without stepping on each other's
> toes.
>
> I got my idea from the website
> http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html.
>
> I don't have my setup here to look at now, but I recommend:
>  o   Set it for single card initialization in the conf file
> (otherwise you will get garbage, check with man xorg.conf)
>  o   Use separate conf files (using layouts is unnecessary and makes
> things more complicated)
>  o   Use the X option to load the separate conf files (check with man Xserver)
>  o   Use the new xorg 6.9 vt options, "-novtswitch -sharevts" on the
> secondary server (otherwise only one is active at a time)
>  o   Don't bother with a window manager, you don't want someone to
> login to myth and everything runs full screen.
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