[mythtv-users] nvidia tv-out - how do you do it? Better,
but not there yet.
Chris Clarke
chrisjohn.clarke at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 20:39:00 UTC 2004
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:08:41 -0700, Brad Fuller
<bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Yan-Fa Li wrote:
> If you started two X servers, each should be individually addressable and
> setting the DISPLAY variable before starting mythtv should send it to the
> correct display. Try:
>
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0
> mythfrontend
> [exit myth]
>
> and
>
> export DISPLAY=localhost:1
> mythfrontend
> [exit myth]
>
> this should send mythtv both displays, one at a time and then you can
> hardcode that value into a startup script.
>
> Yan
> Thanks Yan. That sounds easy enough.
> When I do the above, I receive:
> "mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server localhost:0"
>
> I tried the local host's name and it's IP address with the same result. Do
> I need to install something in the xorg.conf? Or maybe a modification
> elsewhere?
>
> (Obviously, I am not familar with mythtv and X server errors)
>
> brad
>
>
>
>
> Now, I have a two x displays: one for my monitor at 1280 and one for the tv
> at 800x.
> My next problem is to find out how to display MythTV output on the TV. The
> only option that I found in mplayer to do this was xinerama. But, when I set
> this to ON in xorg.conf and restart x I get an error that RANDR crashed.
>
> First of all, I don't know if this is the right or wrong way to push MythTV
> output to the second monitor (TV).
> Or, if there is a better way.
>
> Anyone?
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Hi,
I've run across this problem myself, try rebooting the computer
with init set to 3, and starting x manually, for some reason this
works for me... Never did figure out the source of the problem, once
I had an easy lazy fix I stopped looking :)
Chris
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