Hello, Let me start out by saying that without the help of the community of users of mythtv and particularly the installation guides on the web, I don't hink I would have been able to get this software working on my own. Bravo!
My question concerns configuring my display. I have a computer which must do double duty as my PVR and as my workstation. It has enough RAM/CPU/HD to do the job. I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 and an ATI Radeon 9600-based graphics card (with 256MB video RAM). The graphics card has DVI, S-Video, and analog outputs. I suppose everyone is familar with the outputs on the PVR-350. I have them connected to a Samsung SyncMaster 192MP display. I really like this display since it is a 19" LCD display that contains a NTSC tuner. The display accepts input from DVI, analog, component video, S-Video, and analog cable TV, as well as various audio inputs. One of the features on the Samsung is PIP, which takes input from one source and displays it in a 16:9 aspect ratio window overlaid on whatever is in the 19" display window. For example before I started with mythtv, I could work from home on the computer and watch TV in the small window on the screen. This feature has really come in handy while installing mythtv. I can have the installation guide open in a browser, a terminal window open, and hit the PIP button on the side of the display to see if I'm getting anything out of the PVR-350 --- no disconnecting cables. I would like to configure mythtv and X-windows to play nicely with each other. Ideally I would like to have the PVR-350 always use its S-Video output to display TV (either with PIP, or occupying the whole screen, which I can get by changing my input source from DVI to S-Video with another button on the remote or side of the display). Do I have to change anything in xorg.conf to achieve this? Is it necessary to run X- windows on the PVR-350 to do this? If I need to have X running on the PVR-350, could some one point me to some example xorg.conf's which illustrate how to have X controlling two video cards? Finally, if I'm missing some really cool configuration possibilities due to my limited imagination, please make some suggestions. Thanks, Bob Buchanan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
