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#1 2008-06-08 16:39:09

tl1234562004
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Registered: 2008-03-11
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Help with getting XVideo on DVI instead of VGA

After a recent upgrade, I now am not getting xv acceleration via dvi.  I have both dvi and vga from my radeon (open source xorg driver) plugged into my monitor because for some reason on bootup (pre-x), I can only see output from the vga.  Anyways, I've seen the recommendation to use something like this:

xvattr -a XV_SWITCHCRT -v 1

, but I can't install xvattr because it complains that I don't have xfree86.  Is that supposed to be xorg or is xorg supposed to suffice for xfree as a dependency?  Thanks in advance.

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#2 2008-07-24 02:26:10

tachy
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From: Denmark
Registered: 2008-07-24
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Re: Help with getting XVideo on DVI instead of VGA

*bump*

I'm having the exact same problem.
How do I work around it, and why do xvattr have this dependency in the first case?

In the script I made back in Ubuntu I do this to change XVideo output:

xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1    # Output on secondary monitor
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 0    # Output on primary monitor

Is there another way to switch XVideo output between screens other than using xvattr?

*edit*
Ok, I figured out how to install xvattr using ABS and putting arch=('i686') in the PKGBUILD.

Last edited by tachy (2008-07-24 02:38:56)

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#3 2008-07-24 14:27:09

tl1234562004
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Registered: 2008-03-11
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Re: Help with getting XVideo on DVI instead of VGA

I just used --nodeps since it's already in extra.  By the way, do you have to run these commands whenever your monitor comes out of power-save/standby as well?  I'm wondering if I should run the command every minute or something stupid like that.

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