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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 04/18/2007 12:42 PM, matt lutz wrote:<br>> On 4/18/07, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">
mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > On 04/18/2007 08:21 AM, matt lutz wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> I'm trying to use an old laptop with a busted LCD screen as a<br>> >> front-end only device. It's a p4 (2Ghz). I loaded FC6 onto it
<br>> >> and most things seem to work okay. Unfortunately when trying to<br>> >> watch live tv or recorded programs, all I see is a blue screen.<br>> >> All of the menus & preview video is fine.
<br>> ><br>> > Your video drivers only support Xv output on the first display (as<br>> > do pretty much all of them--ATI, NVIDIA, ...). Therefore, the<br>> > /right/ answer is to tell X /not/ to use the LCD (which becomes the
<br>> > first display). Set up X to ignore the LCD and use /only/ the<br>> > monitor. This means, a default X configuration won't work.<br>><br>> Thanks for the input. I thought it might have something to do with
<br>> that, but my xorg.conf only references a single screen. Here it is:<br>><br><br>...<br><br>> Is there anything you can see that I would need? Understand that I<br>> physically ripped the LCD off of the laptop, so it may not be
<br>> registering as a valid output.<br><br>Basically, it comes down to your integrated "video card" and the ATI<br>drivers knowing that the laptop has an output for the LCD and one for<br>the VGA.<br><br>Things to try, disable the dual-output in the BIOS and ensure only the
<br>VGA output is enabled (disable the LCD and TV-out and any other<br>output). Then, if that doesn't work, you'll have to dig through the ATI<br>driver documentation. If you're not using the VGA output (and are using
<br>a TV-out output), things will definitely be more difficult.<br><br>Unfortunately, I don't use the ATI Linux drivers, so I won't be any help<br>with them.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________
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<div>Got it, thanks. I'll see what I can figure out.</div>
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<div>Matt</div>
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