Aim : Use 1 computer for two tasks : a) Desktop for GF to use as a regular linux machine (web browsing, photos, etc)b) Completely independent MythTV set-up, with the output going to the TV.
Also, the set-up has to be turn-key, with both sessions logging in automatically (goodbye gdm).
There’s a lot going on for this [...]

Email me for the gory details (for FC7) – but see a more up-to-date post for the same thing (much cleaner) in Fedora 9.

Here are the keycodes that I was able to uncover using showkey -k.
Unfortunately, the kernel logs don’t complain when I hit the unknown keys so there’s probably no point in setting up the extra scancodes (particularly since this Belkin MediaPilot keyboard is not the primary keyboard in the system, and the setkeycodes documentation [...]

Aim :

Enable a lightly used Linux machine to additionally host a MythTV video card.

Major Issues :

Upgrade to 2.6.22 breaks *everything* :

ivtv
ivtv-fb
ivtv-xdriver
ivtvfb-ctl (now gone)

Want to have two independent displays (two simultaneous X servers running)

Complex /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Need to use evdev to have dual keyboards

Toy with /etc/gdm/custom.conf (not necessary, hardly working)

Added a Belkin wireless keyboard (from woot.com)

Set up special [...]