Re: Movie disappear from VGA out (ati driver)

[Landy Bible <landy-bible@utulsa.edu>]

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:

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> Hi people,
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> 	Those days something weird happened. (It's always something
> like that, right?). About six months ago, I saw in an event, a guy
> with a notebook playing a video and when he connects the VGA output
> to use some external projector everything looks like ok but you can't
> see the video. :-)
>
> 	At that time, I think: "wow! that's pretty strange". About
> 10 days ago I was giving a talk about Debian in a College and
> suddenly when I open one of my videos (showing Debian booting on
> a Jornada with sh processor) I discovered that my notebook started
> suffering from the same problem.
..

> Anybody has any idea of what could be? 
>  
I can't speak specifically for Debian as I've never tried, but I know in
windows, by default video will only render on the primary output.  There
is a setting somewhere in the graphics control panel that allows video
to render to both displays.

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