From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 20 10:21:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3EE37B405; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAKILQ828403; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:21:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAKILPs26368; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:21:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 8425986; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:21:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3BFA9F27.94769FEE@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:21:27 -0500 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeing a DVD player from a laptop References: <200111201730.fAKHUK256146@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Wolfskill wrote: > And my spouse, who has a slightly updated version of my laptop, but > which is only running "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" was able to > play a DVD on her machine, but when she tried to direct the output to > TV, everthing displayed just fine, except for the window where the image > from the DVD was: it remained black. The DVD software is writing directly to video memory (kinda) you can only have it appear in one place. In Windows this is your primary monitor (it's adjustable in the control panel, although the ATI control panel is slightly confusing on this). If she switches the primay to the TV-out, then the image should appear on the TV (although the box on the LCD will be black). > >One thing you might want to try is just plugging in your TV before > >booting your computer. On my G200 this causes the card to > >automatically initalize the TV-out at startup. > > I found that I could connect the TV while the machine was up, but I > needed to use a sequence of keyboard chords, such as Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 a > few times. If that works, great! It'll mean less rebooting for you. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message