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dtw

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Registered: 2004-08-03

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No video playback on external monitor

I'm using a open-source radeon supported card with an external monitor on my laptop.  When I run a merged framebuffer setup I can see video playback on both screens fine but I just want to use the external.  However, if I don't use mergedfb I only see a black window during video playback.

I'm sure I have had it working in the past, though on a diff monitor but I am certain that if mergedfb playback AND TV-out playback then this must be doable and I am doing something dumb!

My xorg.conf is here, I've tried quite a lot of things but I am stumped atm.

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: No video playback on external monitor

OK, I thought the solution was:

Option  "OverlayOnCRTC2"        "on"

But apparently that is deprecated and I need to use:

xvattr -a XV_SWITCHCRT -v 1

How and when would you guys run this command?