From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 10 12:26:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DA66F7 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:26:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96F78FC15 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [46.244.153.27] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXA8U-0004zg-1v; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:26:06 +0100 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qAACQ4va003461; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:26:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id qAACQ1n8003460; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:26:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:26:00 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: FreeBSD && HDMI TV Message-ID: <20121110122600.GA3426@tinyCurrent> References: <20121106083949.GA1123@tiny.Sisis.de> <201211061354.qA6DsKoi039883@fire.js.berklix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <201211061354.qA6DsKoi039883@fire.js.berklix.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r214444 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 46.244.153.27 Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:26:14 -0000 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