[mythtv-users] Display issues with new system

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On 12/20/14, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Peter Bennett (cats22)
> <cats22 at comcast.net
>> wrote:
>
>> I had a similar problem when I had two monitors connected (i.e. one
>> monitor and one TV), and the system was treating them as one huge monitor
>> and "centering" the picture on the "huge monitor". I solved it by
>> disabling
>> the second monitor when my TV watching user id is logged in.
>
>
> Ugh. I do in fact have two different input ports of the TV plugged into the
> computer. One is the HDMI output used for mythfrontend, and the other is a
> VGA input used for anything else (terminal window, web browser, etc.). So I
> tried disabling the VGA output using nvidia-settings, and that does fix the
> Myth playback issue. Unfortunate, because trying to do these other things
> on the HD display really doesn't work very well (the text is too blurry to
> read, whereas the lower res VGA display works well for this).
>
> Is this really the only fix for this problem?

I'm using dual displays.  I had lots of video tearing problems when I
was using Nvidia twin view.  I'm now running with two independent X
servers and that works great.  I can't move windows from one display
to the other, but otherwise it works fine - the mouse moves from one
display to the other and I can cut and paste from one to the other.
My TV is an old HD CRT with component video inputs and my 2nd monitor
is a HDMI input FHD monitor.