From: Alexandru C. <ale...@wa...> - 2006-02-22 20:38:57
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Hello, I have tried other mailing lists without success so I thought I might try t= he=20 gxine list too just in case... I use Debian testing, 2.6.12, on a Dell Latitude D600, with libxine 1.0.1,= =20 gxine 0.4.8. The video card is a radeon.=20 I boot up the laptop with the external screen plugged in, open gxine, and t= ry=20 watching a DVD. The gxine window opens, everything seems cool, it starts reading the DVD, b= ut=20 there is no image. The place where the image should be is black. However, t= he=20 image *does* appear on the LCD display of the laptop. Kinda crazy. So basically I am looking at two screens, one external, one the laptop's LC= D,=20 and the screen is identical in every way except for the region where the DV= D=20 image should be. The image appears correctly on the LCD but not at all on t= he=20 CRT. Now here's some more background info that might come in handy. I noticed this kind of behavior since last year actually, but back then, I= =20 could work around it by turning on the laptop with the external monitor=20 disconnected and then connecting it only when the x server was already=20 started. I would do Fn-F8 and the laptop would switch to external display. However, with the latest xorg update this workaround stopped working.=20 When I turn on my computer with the external screen disconnected, I let the= x=20 server start, but then Fn-F8 doesn't have any effect anymore. Does anybody have a clue as to what is going on? Thank you. =2D-=20 Alexandru Cabuz Doctoral Student Universit=E9 Montpellier II =46rance =2D-- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html |
From: Manfred T. <Man...@ii...> - 2006-04-02 08:57:11
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Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 10:33 schrieb Alexandru Cabuz: > > Or use the external screen as primary and the internal as > > secondary, then you will have XVideo support on the external > > screen, but not on the internal. > > xshm works fine sometimes, but sometimes I guess it gets tired and > starts dropping frames half way through a dvd or divx. xshm costs much more cpu power then xv, the cpu has to do all the jobs (color transformation, scaling, ...) the gpu dose when using xv. > How do I define the external as primary? Depends on the gpu and the driver you use. Take a look at the manpage or readme of the driver. PS: Please keep the thread in the list. -- Machs gut | http://www.iivs.de/schwinde/buerger/tremmel/ | http://packman.links2linux.de/ Manfred | http://www.knightsoft-net.de |