[mythtv-users] Looking for Dual Head Help

[Allen Edwards]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> John Welch wrote:
>
>>
>> So, anyone get any suggestions on how I can make this work?  I think
>> what I want is two separate X servers each controlling one display,
>> but I can't figure out the proper xorg.conf for this configuration.  I
>> have read the section in the wiki page describing this setup, but it
>> is just not clicking with me.  Ideally I'd like to be able to use both
>> displays at the same time, like I can do now with my Xinerama setup,
>> but this is not absolutely essential as most of the time I'm really
>> only use one display or the other.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/NVidia_multiseat
>
> However, you will lose XvMC and compiz if that's an issue.  It's not for me
> as myth + Xorg + Xephyr are still < 70% of one core with this setup.
>
> However, be careful - the latest experimental xorg is not supported by
> nvidia binary blobs, so you really want to stay away from anything > 1.5.3
>
>
> --Yan


Why would you do it this way if you only want two displays?  It is really no
big deal to do what he wants.

Allen
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