[mythtv-users] Myth and multiseat

[Rene Harder]

Yan Seiner schrieb:
> Occasionally there is discussion here on how to get myth to run in a 
> multi-seat environment, with a user login on one monitor and a separate 
> myth login on another terminal.  I've been working on such a solution.  
> Some fine folks in Brazil have done most of the work and I've hacked up 
> the code to patch in support for the evil nvidia binary drivers.
>
> The upside is that you can get several independent heads; even on a 
> relatively lowly Athlon 4800+ I can watch TV on 2 heads - one at 720p 
> and the other on a 1024x768 monitor, and have 2 user sessions going, all 
> from 2 dual-head cards.  The downside is that you lose compiz and XvMC.
>
> The basic intro to mdm:
>
> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Main_Page
>
> The collection of my experiences:
>
> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/NVidia_multiseat
>
> --Yan
>   
I' ve runnig Myth in a multiseat environment. I use the kdm which has
built in support for multiseat. You just need a separate graphic card
for every X instance or at least a dual headed one which provides
multiple PCI addresses.

my setup:
I have a 7" TFT touchscreen in the front panel of my HTPC case on which
I run Myth, controlled only by the touch screen and the front panel
buttons. On my main screen I'm running Myth in a KDE environment. This
solution woks quite fine for me.

I found a lot of helpful informations in the gentoo wiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Multiseat_X

Rene