XBMC on Fedora 10 Dual head with nVidia

I just Compiled and installed XBMC on a fedora 10 unit running 2 displays in clone mode. Display 1 is a 32" HDTV LCD, and display 2 is my integrated notebook display. I used this guide http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xbmc-on-fedora-9-i386. everything went fine and I was able to build and install with no errors or warnings. However when I try to run XBMC, the window opens for a split second and then Xwindows does a full restart. Thats it no message in dmesg or the Xorg log file. Ny thoughts would be appreciated.

GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x

 

Any errors in the other logs?

 

Ok, I don't see anything I even deleted all the log files and then tried running XBMC and looked in /var/log and there where only 2 files created.

pm-powersave.log
Xorg.0.log

Where else should I look.

 

Is SELinux disabled?

 

Actually no it is not. and it has been causing samba issues but I have been putting that off cause it is not important right now. I'll disable it and see if that helps.

 

Yep disable SElinux and still the same issue. Im gonna try this
http://iamceres.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/elisa-media-center-on-fedora-10/

 

Duh..... Sorry thats for Elisa which also is not working but for a different reason I am working out.

 

Have you tried editing your xorg.conf and setting the external monitor to be the primary there?

 

By External I take that to mean my HDTV conected to the doc. I think it allready is primary here is my xorg file.

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768, 1024x768"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

 

Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

This is where is saying clone the display on both monitors, try replacing Clone with "Left" or "Right" - not sure if the built in monitor will be primary still or not. Any way to open the box and physically disconnect the broken monitor?

 

I tried the setting rightof and no go. None of the monitors are broken though they both work fine. What I have is a notebook connected to a Dock. My HDTV is connected on the VGA of the dock. I think we are on the right track though to assume the drivers are the issue because Elisa does the same thing.