Media PC

[NoobixCube]

Hey all,
At home I have a network of three PC's all using XP, and a 'media' PC (also on the network) which hooks up to the lounge TV to play videos through. It is also has XP on it. But originally we tried to use Ubuntu to run dual monitors (tv and computer screen) but we couldnt get it to work so eventually switched back to XP. Does Fedora 8 have the capability of running dual monitors?

[Seve]

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[winston154]

checkout mythdora at g-ding.tv/ the latest one is based on fedora 8.

[NoobixCube]

I will have a gander!

[Brian1]

Linux can use multiple moniotrs. I have seen a 16 monitor setup before. It all depends on the hardware video card you use and the module support for its features. Nvidia seems to be the best for multiple monitors and can again depend on the cards and what are supportted under them. the display I seen with 16 monitors were using nvidia cards. They had upper half 2x2 format for a total of 4 monitors spanning a KDE desktop and another gnome desktop. A few spanning some vmware Windows guest and some just plain text console screens. One showing what was going on. All connected to a single quad xeon system.

Brian

[NoobixCube]

We were using a Gforce fx (?) 7200 and I think that had some problems with dual monitors(using xp) in itself. We switched it to a 6 series and worked fine with duallies (in xp) so I might try it again

[Jongi]

Below is a section of my xorg.conf on a fedora 8 box that runs mythtv. it is connected to my TV.

I have never run the monitor and screen. that being because the computer and the TV are quite physically apart. but i can tell you that no matter which of the two i connect the box to, it displays without issue. Having said that I have seen dual TV/Monitor setups before. The mythtv mailing list will most likely have what you are looking for. You can see it at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 37.9
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 5200"
        Option      "TVStandard" "PAL"
        Option      "TwinView"
        Option      "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
        Option      "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30 - 50"
        Option      "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
        Option      "MetaModes" "800x600,800x600"
        Option      "RenderAccel" "1"
        Option      "NvAGP" "1"
        Option      "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
        Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT,TV-0"
        Option      "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
        Option      "UseEvents" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection