[mythtv-users] Looking for Dual Head Help

[Yan Seiner]

Allen Edwards wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com 
> <mailto:yan at seiner.com>> wrote:
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>     John Welch wrote:
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>         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.
>
>
>          
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>     http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/NVidia_multiseat
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>     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.  
He wants 2 separate X sessions on a dual-head card.  The only way to do 
that is via Xephyr on each head.  If you have two single head cards, 
then you can do it with separate X sessions in your xorg file.

--Yan