[mythtv-users] Dual monitors solved

[Yan Seiner]

Greg Estabrooks
>> about.  This is a pet project of mine; I am working on a true multi-myth
>> sharing logins).  So far I have some basic functionality but nothing
>> that
>> is usable.
>
>
>  I do this on my main frontend box now as well.
>
>  I've done it in the past with a single card with multiple outputs
> DVI+VGA,
> but currently I use 2 nvidia cards with dvi out
>
> 1 feeds my projector, the other my lcd flatscreen.
>

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Right.  This is the "works but unsupported" way that I use now as well. 
Neither xorg nor nvidia officially support this.  My biggest issue is that
it doesn't support multiple logins on dual-head cards, and there are only
so many cards I can stuff into my server.

I am trying to do this with Xephyr because it gives me an extra two user
sessions.  I hope to get 2 mythfrontend sessions and 2 user logins, all
independent, from 2 dual-head cards.  I suspect that showing 2 HD streams
will probably max out my box; if not I'll throw in a third card and use
that for another front end.

My goal is to reduce the number of machines in my house from 5 to 2, to
have the front ends 'always on' and completely silent (since the box
serving them is 50' away in another room).

--Yan

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