[mythtv-users] Dual Monitor support?

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 05:54:22 UTC 2005


On 6/29/05, Todd Bailey <toddb at toddbailey.net> wrote:
> thanks for the info,  I'll try this out.
> But from what it looks like this enables the s-video port.
> 
> I failed to mention earlier, the video card I am using is a MSI FX-5700 LE.
> It has 3 ports - svga, dvi and svideo.
> I am told these can be active and displaying three separate video streams
> simultaneously.  at least in the win env. My goal is to have the svga and
> dvi active.

Don't know about all three, but you can definitely have SVGA and DVI
active, all you need is to remove all TV options from what I sent you,
and change SecondMonitor refresh rates to whatever your other monitor
supports.

> 
> I'll ping  msi and nvidia and see what they have to say about this.
> 
> thanks all for the assistance
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> From: "Fedor Pikus" <fpikus at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Dual Monitor support?
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> 
> On 6/29/05, Todd Bailey <toddb at toddbailey.net> wrote:
> > Does Myth support dual monitors?
> >
> > I'd like to run the linux console on the primary display monitor and have
> > myth tv output to the second port of my nvidia  fx 5700 card.
> 
> Enable twinview, "clone" mode. Here is mine:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
>         HorizSync    30 - 50
>         VertRefresh  60
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "GeForce6200"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "Leadtek"
>         BoardName   "WinFast A6200TD"
>         Option "DPMS" "False"
>         Option "NvAGP" "1"
>         Option "NoLogo" "1"
>         Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
>         Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
>         Option "TVOverScan" "0.6"
>         Option  "TwinView" "1"
>         Option  "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "on"
>         Option  "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
>         Option  "SecondMonitorVertrefresh" "60"
>         Option  "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
>         Option  "MetaModes" "800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480"
> EndSection
> 
> >
> > So far I haven't been able to get the os to even acknowledge the fact the
> > video card had dual displays, let alone myth.
> >
> >
> > tia
> >
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