Small update on this... this is not only affecting MythTV.... When I
start MPlayer on the LCD and set the movie to fullscreen, it resizes
as if it was playing on the 1680x1050 TFT.



> Today I decided to upgrade my 10.2 install to 10.3.  Everything has
> gone very well so far with the exception of my MythTV.  I cannot get
> MythTV to start in the right resolution.
>
> The hardware config is
> Screen0 = Acer AL2016W, a 20 inch widescreen TFT monitor
> Screen1 = Toshiba 32L56P widescreen LCD TV with VGA in and a max
> supported VGA resolution of 1024x768
> Video card is an nVidia 7600GS.  The TFT is on VGA port0 and the LCD
> is on VGA port1
>
> I am using the binary drivers from nVidia (installed via the 1-Click
> link on the openSUSE wiki)
>
> The nvidia drivers are installed correctly and tested/working.  The
> TFT and LCD are set up as independent desktops, the TFT at 1680x1050,
> and the LCD at 640x480 (for reasons I've never figured out, the nVidia
> driver refuses to drive the monitor at any higher resolution.  This
> low resolution has been working just fine though for MythTV 0.20 on
> openSUSE10.2).
>
> MythTV version 0.20.2-9 is installed with all its various bits, and
> the MySQL backed is configured and is working.
>
> When I launch mythtvsetup, or mythtvfrontend on the TFT monitor,
> everything works correctly.  The resolution of the TFT is picked up
> and everything loads properly.  When I launch MythTV on the LCD TV, it
> detects the 640x480 resolution, but switches to 1680x1050 resolution
> (instead of scaling to 640x480 like it used to do).  The result is
> that I can only see the top left corner of the MythTV interface.
>
> If I start mythtvsetup (for example) from a terminal this is theoutput:
>
> ------------------------------
> mythtvsetup
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.469 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.500 DPMS is disabled.
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.511 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.518 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.519 Total desktop dim: 640x480, with 1 screen[s].
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.523 Using screen 0, 1680x1050 at 0,0
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.548 Current Schema Version: 1160
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.560 Total desktop dim: 640x480, with 1 screen[s].
> 2008-01-11 17:40:12.563 Using screen 0, 1680x1050 at 0,0
> -------------------------------
> It is picking up on screen0, but I want it to use screen1.
>
> I've done a fair bit of Googling on this, but nothing I've read so far
> is of any help.  in fact, most of the example xorg.conf files look
> pretty much the same as mine does.
>
> Does anyone have any hints for me here?  What am I missing?
>
>
> Relevant parts of my xorg.conf (which is an exact copy of the one I
> used in 10.2, and which worked fine with MythTV on 10.2) are:
> ------------------------
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "Layout[all]"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
>     Option         "Clone" "off"
>     Option         "Xinerama" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     VendorName     "Unknown"
>     ModelName      "Acer AL2016W"
>     DisplaySize     433    271
>     HorizSync       31.0 - 84.0
>     VertRefresh     56.0 - 86.0
>     Option         "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
>     Option         "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor1"
>     VendorName     "Toshiba"
>     ModelName      "CRT-1"
>     HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
>     VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Videocard0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>     BoardName      "GeForce 7600 GS"
>     BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
>     Screen          0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Videocard1"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>     BoardName      "GeForce 7600 GS"
>     BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
>     Screen          1
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Videocard0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Option         "TwinView" "0"
>     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
>     Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1680x1050 +0+0; CRT-0: 1600x1024 +0+0; 
> C
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Depth       24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen1"
>     Device         "Videocard1"
>     Monitor        "Monitor1"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Option         "TwinView" "0"
>     Option         "metamodes" "CRT-1: 640x480 +0+0"
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Depth       24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
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