I have a dongle thingy attached with it successfully sending stufff to the TV. However, the setup displays the TV as being on top of the Laptop screen. I’ve tried changing so that it’s side by side in the Configure Desktop place as well as Yast.
I’m running on a Acer Aspire 5610Z with Suse 11.1. Per Yast, the vid card is some intel mobile chipset.
ollie ollie oxen free?
Hi there,
have you tried xrandr ?
check this out:
Multiple Screens Using XRandR - openSUSE
Good luck
psybernetik wrote:
> ollie ollie oxen free?
well, you could begin by reading this fully and carefully:
http://tinyurl.com/anel
and then explain what this means:
> I have a dongle thingy attached with it successfully sending stufff to
> the TV.
if you can’t describe it using language, perhaps a link to a photo of
the “dongle thingy” along with its brand name and model number…
and, just a few words on what “stufff” you are using the dongle thingy
to send…
and did you attach the dongle thingy to your laptop so you could send
the desktop to the TV, or the TV to the desktop…or, do you have a TV
tuner in your computer and you are using the dongle thingy to send TV
programs to your computer…
> However, the setup displays the TV as being on top of the Laptop
> screen.
does the TV float above your computer?
and, if you move the computer will the floating TV follow it around
the room…or what?
> I’ve tried changing so that it’s side by side in the Configure
> Desktop place as well as Yast.
in which Configure Desktop place (Appearance & Themes, Desktop, Sound
& Multimedia, where) and exactly what did you change, from and to…
and, what did you change in Yast, where?
> I’m running on a Acer Aspire 5610Z with Suse 11.1. Per Yast, the vid
> card is some intel mobile chipset.
it might actually make a difference if “some” in that sentence were
replaced with a number, or some other fact…
you help us understand your problem and maybe then someone here can
help you. (though you may have to hire a Ghost Buster to stop the
floating TV thingy:-)
i suspect until then you will have to sit an wait until someone with a
crystal ball comes along and can ‘see’ what your problem is, from afar…
–
natural_pilot
@maill
SAX2 uses xrandr already. And the link you supplied is for Dual Headed Monitor setup. With a TV out it’s a bit trickier because it’s not a “real” monitor. And I believe SAX2 with YAST should be confiuring it as it should.
With Suse, I’ve learned not mess with the files unless you have absolutely have to. Else, it throws off YAST/SAX a bit… to a lot. And YAST also sometimes either writes over what changes you’ve done, crashes, or freezes.
@natural_pilot
This is what I mean by a “dongle thingy”. There’s not much about the manufacturer/make of it. It’s your generic cheap stock video out line converter that comes with most laptops that have it.
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Essentially, the problem is that when I use the dongle the video output to the tv is wrong. It’s behaving like a Cloned Screen with much lower resolution. I understand the resolution part. I’m trying to get it to behave like an Extended screen; so they don’t see what I’m doing on the computer while watching the movie.
The “floating” is the TV area; in the above methods of configurations, being layered on top of my actual screen. Like a box in a box. The supplied screenshots are a bit off. I’m at work and I can’t connect it to a TV to have it display the “box in a box” like I stated.
Having not done this on linux…
Is this not a question of misunderstanding the config tools, if you clone it won’t do it #### = #### so you want to turn it on xinerama mode but… if I understand the snippets I read. Then if you have your original screen size as #### but you’re trying to achieve ######## so that when you drag the media player it will go off screen but end up on the tv…
Perhaps that will help but that was how I interpreted it… How this plays in with the config tools don’t know. Even then you’ll be expanding to larger than the screen is, so you can drag it off screen, so I suspect a manual edit may need to be involved for a custom size.
Source http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Using_multiple_monitors_with_XFree86
hi psybernetik,
I’ve been using my laptop’s TV Out for quite a while,
the laptop’s VGA is intel945 GM,
IMO the KDE 4.x display setting is still buggy,
but i managed to extend my desktop by manually editing the Xorg.conf, adding virtual entries to the display subsections,
and using xrandr from cli,
you can position the TV Out with the --right-of or the --left-of option, just read the man for more info
Which MAN? xrandr or xorg?
Um… I’s be scurred… xorg.conf is a bit too complex for me to want to screw with without assistance.
pls check the xrandr man page,
after adding virtual entries to xorg.conf,
the command below enabled me to extend my desktop & position the TV out, :
#have to execute xrandr --auto --output TV first, otherwise the xrandr will throw no crtc found error in KDE 4, but not needed in KDE 3
xrandr --auto --output TV
xrandr --output TV --mode 1024x768 --pos 1280x1
good luck
1st backup your xorg.conf,
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
so that you could restore the conf if something went wrong
2ndly , find Section “Screen” in your Xorg.conf
add Virtual entries like the example below
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 2704 1050
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 2704 1050
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 2704 1050
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
finally, restart your X server,
& execute the xrandr command given above