[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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