good find, otakuj462. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#the_Virtual_screen
2048 seems to be magical threshold indeed. I can have the internal display of my netbook at 1024x600 below my external display at 1680x1050 and play Video just fine. If set side to side and thus exceeding 2048 pixels dimension I only get the black square. I've reported the bug upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32750 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #32750 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32750 ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel via http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32750 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460616 Title: [i915] [i945gm] Black video playback with dual screen enabled -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
