My personal philosophy is that every question that someone could ask, probably already has been. So don’t waste other people’s time, dig more and find your own answer for yourself. This time I’m stuck. I dug through Samba, through kernel compiling, openssl, and VNC problems. But finally I’m stuck with video control. I apologize guys, but if anyone can point me in the right direction I’ll be extremely grateful.
I’m a long time MS fellow. Trying out Linux. Ubuntu was a little too remedial, and finally I’ve settled on opensuse 11.0. I’m trying to take my old X31 ThinkPad laptop with ATI video, and turn it into a fileserver and media center. I already have filesharing setup, and have full control of the system remotely via VNC. My last step I’m trying to set up is to have the system serve as a media center. My TV has a VGA input, so it’s easy enough to configure it as an external monitor through X11. BUT!!!
When I try to play any video, the video displays perfectly on my laptop LCD, but on my TV the video is a blank blue or black box. I’m configured for mirror mode, and using VLC as the media player.
I’ve done some searching, and I think the problem is that I need to set up the external display as the primary display. But I don’t know how…
So, after that long description, any ideas? What’s stumped me is that there seem like so many different places to look. Configure VLC in a special mirror mode? Set the external display as primary? Use xrandr to control video? Directly edit the x11 conf?
I’m stumped. Any advice is greatly appreciated…