[mythtv-users] Dual monitors solved

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:19:16PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:58:41AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> > OK, I've been through the archives and I can't find what you're talking
> > about.  This is a pet project of mine; I am working on a true multi-myth
> > setup (multiple frontends running on a single box, all independent - not
> > sharing logins).  So far I have some basic functionality but nothing that
> > is usable.
> 
> TTBOMK, the problem here is that Xv won't run on more than one physical
> monitor interface at a time.  Though I, too, will be searching for
> Misty's solution.

If you run with physically separate video cards -- a PCI and an
AGP/PCIe -- you should be able to start one X server on each and
have both Xv capable.

Haven't tried this with Xv. I have generally tried dual cards, and that
works well.

-dsr-

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