How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
I like to watch movies and clips alot, so a 15.4 is not really and impressive or a great option, therefore, I wanted to be able to plug my laptop to the Samsung TV at home through an S-Video cable in order to watch the movies. However, I was not able to properly configure xorg.conf and I googled for S-Video and xorg but most of the results I found were Linux related (although I doubt it would make a big difference) but none worked with me. My xorg.conf is appended. If I connect my laptop to the TV while my X is running and fn+F5 my TV screen tries to display X but the screen keeps on flickering. I tried shutting down X, connecting and fn+F5 it works fine but after I start X again, it keeps on flickering :( Any help would be really appreciated :) Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 Screen 1 TV RightOf Card0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts_mono FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/AAHS FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/AGA FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/FS FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/Kasr FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/MCS FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kacst_fonts FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/Shmookh FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/ FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts/ FontPath /home/yraffah/fonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts/cmpsfont/type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc101 Option XkbLayout us,ar Option XkbOptionsgrp:alt_shift_toggle EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 330 210 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName CPT ModelName138a # Modeline 1280x800 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option Dac8Bit # [bool] #Option BusType # [str] #Option CPPIOMode # [bool] #Option CPusecTimeout # i #Option AGPMode # i #Option AGPFastWrite # [bool] #Option AGPSize # i #Option GARTSize # i #Option RingSize # i #Option BufferSize# i #Option EnableDepthMoves # [bool] #Option EnablePageFlip# [bool] #Option NoBackBuffer # [bool] #Option PanelOff # [bool] #Option DDCMode # [bool] #Option MonitorLayout # [str] #Option IgnoreEDID# [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option VideoKey # i #Option MergedFB # [bool] #Option CRT2HSync # [str] #Option CRT2VRefresh # [str] #Option CRT2Position # [str] #Option MetaModes # [str] #Option MergedDPI # [str] #Option NoMergedXinerama # [bool] #Option MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0 # [bool] #Option DisplayPriority # [str] #Option
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
On Thursday 03 August 2006 19:46, Yousef Raffah wrote: I like to watch movies and clips alot, so a 15.4 is not really and impressive or a great option, therefore, I wanted to be able to plug my laptop to the Samsung TV at home through an S-Video cable in order to watch the movies. However, I was not able to properly configure xorg.conf and I googled for S-Video and xorg but most of the results I found were Linux related (although I doubt it would make a big difference) but none worked with me. My xorg.conf is appended. If I connect my laptop to the TV while my X is running and fn+F5 my TV screen tries to display X but the screen keeps on flickering. I tried shutting down X, connecting and fn+F5 it works fine but after I start X again, it keeps on flickering :( Take a look at the http://gatos.sf.net Maybe this solve Your problem. -- Best regards, Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.) --- KeyID: 0x2569D30B Fingerprint: 78FC 5C40 07CC D331 148E CC79 84B8 D514 2569 D30B --- pgptX9uNBwFTQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip] Section Device Identifier TV Driver ati Option MonitorLayout TV,LFP Option TVStandard PAL Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option ConnectedMonitor TV Screen 1 EndSection [snip] Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure PAL is 25 fields/sec, which corresponds to 50Hz not 60Hz. I really have no idea, what are you suggesting then? -- Sincerely, Yousef Adnan Raffah The Savola Group --- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
--- Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip] Section Device Identifier TV Driver ati Option MonitorLayout TV,LFP Option TVStandard PAL Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option ConnectedMonitor TV Screen 1 EndSection [snip] Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure PAL is 25 fields/sec, which corresponds to 50Hz not 60Hz. I really have no idea, what are you suggesting then? -- Sincerely, Yousef Adnan Raffah The Savola Group --- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com As much of a pain as it might sound you should probably google PAL specs for TV output, get a copy of The Complete FreeBSD either on the website or the printed copy in a store, thumb to the X org (free) section and form a proper Modeline statement for the screen by following their instructions and using PAL's spec. Either that or keep googling X org and PAL TV's. I think it is something with the refresh rates though. Also the H-sync should prolly be 50 hertz locked as this seems to be PAL's standard refresh rate. X might be defaulting to the low end which is causing the flicker. It might help to define the resolution you want the screen to have as well. PAL supports a few different ones at different levels of fidelity. Again X might go to the low end of things to be safe which is just causing the interlacing to occur too slowly and flicker on you. good luck -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
--- Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/03 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to have typed: Also the H-sync should prolly be 50 hertz locked as this seems to be PAL's standard refresh rate. My replies don't show up on the list for some reason (something about how the freebsd.org servers can't find my server's FQDN), but I'm pretty sure that he needs to set his VertRefresh to 50 for PAL (and I've sent him a message as such). I figured as much, I know TV's aren't monitors and so a range of values didn't seem valid. Ahhh, your servers don't do a reverse domain name lookup properly... If they're your servers then you should be able to fix that. The Complete FreeBSD has some section on it which is reasonably parsable by humans... (I kid, I kid gotta learn how to do a DNS server myself so it's still a little cryptic to me) If its your ISP I would keep sending them Shame on you messages until they fix it. I know that reverse domain lookup is typcially done to help eliminate spam anyway so you can use that as firepower. if they're using Mircosoft servers it probably won't be able to be fixed anytime soon. At least not until Microsoft starts using standards that don't have their trademark on it... Although if Mac.com is your domain then Mac servers would likely be being used, which means its a variant of BSD anyway and should be just a simple configuration change on their end... -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
