Re: [gentoo-user] Video card, splitter and issues.

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> <<< SNIP >>>
> Thanks much.
>
> Dale
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> :-)  :-) 
>


I been playing with this a while.  I finally figured out some things
that makes this almost perfect.  First, I set up the TV output to run as
a second display to the right of my main display.  My main monitor is
Screen 0.  My TV is Screen 1.  That allows me to watch TV at a lower
resolution that the splitter works well at while my monitor runs at the
highest resolution.  That got me to where I can watch TV pretty easy. 
When I open Smplayer, I just tell it to move to Screen 1 and to the TV
it goes, sound and all. 

The one thing that bugged me is that I had to be on the desktop where I
started Smplayer to watch it.  I couldn't for example be surfing the
internet and glance over at the TV to see something if I was on a
different desktop.  Then it hit me, there is a way somewhere to set it
to be seen on all desktops.  I dug around until I found it.  It's in the
upper left hand corner on my KDE. I think that is the default.  When one
puts their mouse pointer on it, it says "On all desktops".  If you click
that, it then makes the video going to the TV viewable on all desktops. 
I can surf the internet, play Kpatience or whatever and glance over at
the TV to see something without switching desktops.

I wanted to share this in case someone is searching for tips on this and
finds this thread.  I hope it will help someone else. 

[OT]   I'm building speakers for my puter.  I started cutting the wood
today but had to glue some stuff.  I'm waiting for it to dry real good. 
I'm surfing around for ways to attach the back and it be easy to remove
but be secure.  I'm thinking of using bolts and having those t nuts
inside to screw into.  That way I can take it apart easily.  It's a
small project but it goes all the way across the back of my desktop and
I plan to set my monitor on top of it to raise it up a bit.  Just
thinking some things out here.  I'm building because I'm tired of those
crappy speakers I been getting for this.  I'm using a two way 5 1/4"
speaker that is supposed to go in a car.  It's small but it's bigger
than the 2 1/2 maybe 3" things in my old set that went out.  My amp is a
separate device too.  I plan to re-engineer my TV so I can have external
speakers on it next.  That I plan to have a small sub and a pair of two
ways for. 

I got to much time on my hands right now.  ROFL 

Dale

:-)  :-)