[mythtv-users] Blending/spanning two crt projectors using myth and nvidia nview

Greg Oliver goliver at cistera.com
Wed Feb 22 02:04:33 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:00 -0700, Chad wrote:

> :Drool:
> 
> Relating to your response and the original posters:
> 
> Can I do both with little user interaction?
> 
> I've always had the dilemma of wanting to play games/watch shows while
> my wife wants to watch something else or watch a show while I play
> games.  We usually solve it by me watching something she wants to
> watch ;)  I'd really like to have something like you guys are
> discussing.  Have 2 front projectors (overhead preferably) displaying
> 1 image across my entire wall without any break where the 2 output's
> merge.  And then, an hour later, watch one half the wall, while the
> other half displays my xbox game :)
> 
> Any ideas?  And like the original poster, something under the $17k
> range would be cool.

Twinview from nVidia  makes it easy.  Their docs from the drivers
explain it all as far as your xorg.conf goes.  If you run into trouble,
I will be happy to help, but they have a whole section in the readme
that details twinview.

-Greg



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