On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:37, Michael Fox wrote:
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> I dont really want to have my primary X session out on the Tv, so I
> thought maybe create another X session and then have it mirror to the
> Tv via the svideo port. That way mythfrontend can run on that other X
> session and mirror to the Tv, and I can still use the main X session
> for other stuff.
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> I have an FX5200 Nvidia btw.
I have the above setup, primary X session is displayed only on the monitor.
Secondary X session is started by hand and tv is a mirror of the monitor (tv
is only good for video output so the mirroring onto the monitor helps with
the fiddly bits).
To do this just takes a little alteration to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or
XF86Config). Below is what I added:
<-- xorg.conf addition start -->
Section "Device"
Identifier "Cloned"
Driver "nvidia"
BusId "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "DPMS"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "HWCursor" "False"
Option "TwinView"
Option "MetaModes" "800x600,800x600"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "HorizSync" "TV-0:30-50"
Option "VertRefresh" "TV-0:60"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Cloned"
Monitor "Dell D1025HTX"
Device "Cloned"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Cloned"
Screen "Cloned"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
<-- xorg.conf addition end -->
(*Note that the monitor is already defined early for the standard X display,
and some/most of the display options are specific to the nvidia (not nv)
driver.)
Then from a command line I just use:
startx -- :1 -layout Cloned
and a ~/.xinitrc which execs blackbox as my window manager.
To everyone else that read this far for no reason ... it's your own fault,
don't complain to me :).
Cheers,
Malcolm V.
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