[mythtv-users] Using Myth w/o X running on TV-out

[James Carrig]

Thanks for the clarification, that is exactly what I wanted to know.

BTW, I had an X-desktop running simultaneously on my monitor and TV-out for
4 days.  Looked and felt great, but it stopped working last night before I
finished following Jarod's guide.  Some of the packages I tried to install
couldn't be found by yum (tveeprom-ivtv, nvidia*kmdl*,..) so I did the minor
upgrade from 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 to 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 hoping it would help if
the release numbers matched.  [I am not a yum guru.]  Restoring my
xorg.conffile]  didn't get X back for me.  Salt in the wound, this was
all to get
"rhgb boot screen" to load (according to the guide) and I still don't know
what the "rhgb boot screen" is.  If it turns out to be something like "Red
Hat Grub Bootloader" then I did this all for nothing.

Given that my system was completely fresh, I conclude that this package
system seems to have some serious flaws.  Would compiling everything from
source be more reliable?

-Jim


On 6/12/06, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> On 6/12/06, James Carrig <james.carrig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is Myth usable on a monitor + TV system without getting X to run on
> > the TV-out?  What is it like / what am I giving up?  What if the
> > monitor is not in the same room as the TV?
>
>
> If you don't get X working on the TV-out, you won't get any menus - ie,
> the recorded program menus, etc. Basically, all you can do is browse live
> TV, assuming you can get into liveTV without pressing any buttons.
>
> You can blind-navigate the menus, though, or use a monitor to select a
> recording to play. Once it's playing, it doesn't need X for anything (not
> even pausing, rewind, ff, osd, etc)
>
> I am asking because I plan to use MythTV only part-time and:
> >
> > 1) I don't want to give up running X on my monitor
> >
> 2) I can't get the ivtv driver ivtvdev_drv.o to load (a whole nother post)
> > 3) I see from Jeff's post below that it might not be satisfying
> > anyway.  Very disappointing because that is not what is advertised
> > when people say X is multi-headed.
> >
>
> It works fine for everything except the ivtvdev driver. If you had a
> geforce card with tvout or similar, you could use it simultaneously.
>
> Something else you can do is just run myth windowed in your current X
> session and tell it to output to the PVR-350. You use X on the monitor to do
> everything, and once you start playing it will "black" the monitors and put
> the output to the TV. you can actually minimize the "black" and continue
> using X while myth is doing it's thing.
>
> In any case, all of these options are far from ideal.
>
> Maybe I am the only one that has the
> high-cpu-usage-when-multiheading-x-with-ivtv problem, has anybody else even
> tried it?
>
>  - Jeff
>
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