Talk:HOWTO Separate x-screens on Monitor and TV

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Does this affect acceleration at all compared with nvidia's twinview options?

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Additionally I needed to specify the 'MetaModes' for the card. This basically says which modes to put the TV into with respect to which mode the monitor is in. Mine looks like this:

    Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,800x600;1024x768,800x600"

Which says to put the monitor in 800x600 resolution when the card is either in 1280x1024 or 1024x768 mode.

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To avoid resolution conflicts I also suggest using

    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"

in the your tv device

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If you are having problems with only black&white screen, and are using S-VIDEO. Edit "TVOutFormat" to look like:

    Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"   # not S-VIDEO

...it worked for me anyway ;)

on nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420], with nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r4, nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r3 and xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4

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Did this take care of stretching your wallpaper 1024x768 across two monitors?

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One of the biggest problems that I can see with this is that if your TV is off (and you are not watching a movie or whatever) then you will 'loose' your cursor off to the right of the screen, with possible confusion as to what has happened. Is there any way to make it a little harder to loose the cursor across screens like this?

I agree, but if you don't like your mouse pointer to dissapear change the line that says:

    Screen 1 "Screen[1]" RightOf "Screen[0]"

to simply:

    Screen 1 "Screen[1]"

You can still use mplayer and friends.