[mythtv-users] Myth in a "viewer only" configuration?

[Grant Totten]

Alan Snyder wrote:

>It would be possible to do this if your video card
>supported two
>*independent* heads.  Most don't.
>
>With an nvidia card, you can specify a mode in your X
>configuration (see the
>nvidia README) in which the TV and VGA make up the
>left half and right half
>(or vice versa, or maybe even top/bottom) of a wide
>desktop.  You can then
>specify the GUI width in Myth so that it fills only
>the TV.  Your only
>remaining issue would be that newly started
>applications could initially
>display on top of myth until you move them.  In
>windows, nvidia provides
>some desktop management capabilities to force
>applications onto one side or
>the other.  You may be able to do that as well using
>nvidia config or window
>placement switches on X apps.
>
>
>  
>
Interesting.  I'll be sure to give it a go.  I've started looking 
through the previous postings, to see what kind of issues people have 
been running into.  Thanks.

 From looking at the mailing list archives, it seems I don't need a 
high-end video card to run mythfrontend.  Will an old AGP TNT2 do the 
job on the TV, with an old Matrox Millenium for the VGA side?

Also, (hope I'm not spawning a distribution flamewar here) if I was 
going to install a "fresh" linux distribution for Myth purposes, which 
is best/easiest?  RH, Debian, Mandrake, etc.?

Thanks,
Grant