[mythtv-users] Start MythTV on Display I want (and if not there, next one I want)

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Wed Jan 14 21:18:27 UTC 2009


Allen Edwards wrote:
> John said to try:  Option          "UseDisplayDevice"      "DFP,TV"
> My first attempt at this was unsuccessful.  Then I saw that display
> modes were defined the Screen sections so I modified screen0 to have
> two metamodes, one for the DFP and one for TV-0.  I modified the
> existing "UseDisplayDevice" in the device section to be "DFP, TV-0".
> That didn't work.  It locked the two displays together, caused a
> low-res mode, power cycle thing, which breaks up GMA so I quit that
> train.  If you can please tell me what I am doing wrong I will try
> again.
>   
I was suggesting to remove the UseDisplayDevice option from the Device 
sections and add it to the "Screen 0" Screen section only. Is this what 
you tried?

John


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