Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:26:00 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD && HDMI TV Message-ID: <20121110122600.GA3426@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <201211061354.qA6DsKoi039883@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <20121106083949.GA1123@tiny.Sisis.de> <201211061354.qA6DsKoi039883@fire.js.berklix.net>
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El día Tuesday, November 06, 2012 a las 02:54:20PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey escribió: > I connect with SVGA, > TV has HDMI, SVGA, S-VHS, Laptop has SVGA, SVHS, Neither have DVI, > I recall S-VHS gave low res, & only monochrome=B/W. > > After you solve your connection, To share displays: > cd /usr/ports/x11/xrandr; make install ; man xrandr > You will notice one can move & share xterms etc between screeen, > but [some] video players seem sticky & wont move so easily (video > frame buffers I recall?, I havent had time to look into it much) > > Cheers, > Julian Hi Julian, I have installed xrandr 1.3.x but do not see how to use this with the external VGA TV; my laptop uses 1024x600 and the TV has 1920x1080 resolution; when I connect the TV before starting X11/KDE both screens show the same picture with 800x600 resolution; can you please give an example how to use 1920x1080 on the TV? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards
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