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Pajarico
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 Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I did read it but didn't find anything problematic, none of xorg or mplayer gives errors.
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rawoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:02 am Post subject: |
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Pajarico, try
| Code: | | xdpyinfo | grep screen |
You should have something like
| Code: | default screen number: 0
number of screens: 2
screen #0:
screen #1: |
I'm not sure what Option Clone does in your config, otherwise it seems ok. |
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Pajarico
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Hi rawoul
Here's mine:
| Quote: | lxuser@hal2000 ~ $ xdpyinfo | grep screen
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0: |
So i have only a screen. Shouldn't it show 2 screens?, as i have two defined screens: "Screen0" and "TV" 
Also: remember that i'm using the config from count_zero, not yours!! I reverted to it since i screwed it up a bit, so now the config is identical (that means that clone is disabled and i have only "screen 0" defined in ServerLayout section).
Also2: in your example you are using the svideo output and the vga output as two differents screens, right? I'm just a bit confused about this as i thought i couldn't use that approach with the s-video output, only with VGA+DVI. Please confirm me this as i like your approach better.
And a last question  can you use the monitor and TV simultaneously with your config?
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Pajarico
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hi again rawoul
Made some changes to my xorg.conf:
-Added Screen 1:
| Code: | ### X Server ###
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "TV" LeftOf "Screen0"
EndSection
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-Added Screen 0:
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
BoardName "nVidia GeForce 2 Go"
Option "CursorShadow" "true"
Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "50"
Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "4"
Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Screen 0
EndSection |
-And screen 1:
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "TV-device"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
BoardName "nVidia GeForce 2 Go"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Screen 1
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
EndSection
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Restarted X and xdpyinfo | grep screen keeps telling me that i have a single screen.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:07 am Post subject: |
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I think a geforce2go does not have dual head support, you can't display on two screens at the same time :(.
Edit: check your Xorg.0.log there should be a warning confirming this, but i'm not sure. |
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Pajarico
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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log doesn't contain anything about it.
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Pajarico
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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If my card doesn't have dual-head support it's ok. I would prefer it, but is not really something beyond essential.
I use this post to bump the thread a bit and to say that i have checked the S-Video cable with a polimeter ans it is ok  , so i don't understand why i get a black and white signal. The cable is about 9 meters long, could be that a problem? BTW, I get about 3 ohms.
Also I haven't been able to solve the mplayer issue, I still get the desktop but the player doesn't connect to it, meaning that I don't see the movie. I would think that it was a limitation in mplayer or Xorg but the startyer of this post has the same configuration and it works!! 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| Pajarico wrote: | If my card doesn't have dual-head support it's ok. I would prefer it, but is not really something beyond essential.
I use this post to bump the thread a bit and to say that i have checked the S-Video cable with a polimeter ans it is ok , so i don't understand why i get a black and white signal. The cable is about 9 meters long, could be that a problem? BTW, I get about 3 ohms.
Also I haven't been able to solve the mplayer issue, I still get the desktop but the player doesn't connect to it, meaning that I don't see the movie. I would think that it was a limitation in mplayer or Xorg but the startyer of this post has the same configuration and it works!! |
Try
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Option "TVOutFormat" "S-VIDEO"
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Your missing a dash.
| Pajarico wrote: | | Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "TV-device"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
BoardName "nVidia GeForce 2 Go"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Screen 1
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
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Also, I had black and white only... and the cause was a bent s-video pin. Check for that too.
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Pajarico
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:38 am Post subject: |
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I have added the dash, althought the README states otherwise. The pins are not bent, I moved the connectors while plugged in he TV but I don't see even interferences. Haven't checked the end attached to the card, may be a bit loose, I hope is that  .
And about the X display thing, I'm still lost.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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I tried again and now i can see the video on the TV always, it seems like my card? X? mplayer? can't have two X processes running at the same time .Weird.
Now everytime i type:
| Code: | | X -screen TV :1 -ac & sleep 2 && mplayer -display :1 -fs -zoom van.morrison-late.with.jools.holland.2005-05-27.mpg |
..i have to do it from the console, no X running, althought I still seeing it in black and white 
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| rawoul wrote: | I think a geforce2go does not have dual head support, you can't display on two screens at the same time  .
Edit: check your Xorg.0.log there should be a warning confirming this, but i'm not sure. |
Sorry, I didn't spot this. Actually my card is a geforce 5200fx, that information is copied from the example of the first poster 
BTW, Is okay to crosspost this to a more appropriate section?
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Very helpfull topic. I configured my xorg like author proposed in first post changing few settins to our standards and i've got nice colour display, 1024x768 resolution on TV and mplayer plays movie file almost perfectly. I'm using -vo sdl to get subtiles under movie and because of that i have some weird blue box around the movie. With -vo x11 -zoom -fs it's fine, but it's too slow and subtiles are on the movie.
Since i like console a little i just made small sh script, called it tvplayer and put in /usr/bin. Now, everythime when i want to play something on tv i only have to type: tvplayer /path/to/file addition_options_to_mplayer_if_needed
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X -screen TV :1 -ac & sleep 2; DISPLAY=:1 xset s off && DISPLAY=:1 mplayer -vo sdl -fs "$@"; ps ax | grep 'X -screen TV' | cut -f 2 -d' ' | xargs kill
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I had to change "cut -f 1 -d' '" part to "cut -f 2 -d ' '" just because second x server wasn't killed after mplayer closed (it couldn't get proper process PID).
I also have one, small question. When i'm using sdl as video output mplayer forgets to turn off screensaver and i've got blank screen every 15 minutes. As you see i tried to turn off screensaver manually (as i usually do on primary x server) but it doesn't work in here. Any advices on that? |
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Pajarico
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| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I also have one, small question. When i'm using sdl as video output mplayer forgets to turn off screensaver and i've got blank screen every 15 minutes. As you see i tried to turn off screensaver manually (as i usually do on primary x server) but it doesn't work in here. Any advices on that? |
That's probably the conf file that the spawned X server reads contains a line executing xscreensaver. I had similar problems, but can't remember the eact file...
And I'm still don't know why my output is black and white...
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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I moved the computer near the TV and outpot is colored, i moved back to my bedroom and the image is still colored. I don't know what happened but now it works!
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