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