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Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> I have installed gentoo on a gateway laptop, with an ATI mobility 9000 |
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> radeon video adaptor. Once I have xorg installed, and ati-drivers |
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> (proprietary), tvout was pretty easy to set up using ati's setup |
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> utility, fglrxconfig and a couple of easy changes to |
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> /etc/X11/xorg.conf. |
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> However, I am having trouble trying to show my classes a dvd, because |
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> on the TV, the video frame is completely solidly dark blue. |
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> Preliminary investigation suggests this may be related to "xv". I |
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> don't understand this, and my attempts to edit some parameters in |
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> xorg.conf have failed. |
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Yes, a blue window is typical for xv output on a device that can't do |
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xv. You have to tell your player that it should use some other output |
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driver. E.g. with mplayer you could use -vo x11. If you use some other |
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player, you will find the right option in its menus. |
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> I followed an instruction on one of the howtos or faqs to not enable |
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> dri in the kernel. |
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That's something different, you should revert that. |
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> Where can I find a relatively understandable explantion of this |
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> effect? I saw a similar behavior with xinerama and a Matrox G450 with |
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> two heads: one head didn't show the graphics in the frame in some |
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> cases. |
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The second head is unaccelerated (at least on my G400), so you can't use |
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any "fancy stuff" like xv or OpenGL there. |
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Regards... |
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Michael |
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