Video on notebook, no video on beamer

[Erik Andrén]

Hi,

B-Kloss wrote:
> Etch
> KDE 3.5.5
> Kaffeine
> xorg with MonitorLayout CRT,LFP
> notebook with beamer
> 
> 
>  Hello,
> 
> running KDE on the notebook with beamer the picture on lokal flat panel and 
> the picture produced by the beamer are identical.
> 
> Playing videos (AVI, VOB etc) the picture on the lfp  is all the desktopstuff 
> (kaffeine) and within the kaffeine-frame the video is running. The beamer 
> produces kaffeine and the mouse, but no video. The video-frame is left blank 
> (blue).
> What is happening here and what to do about??
> 

You are using the xv overlay which only supports one screen.
There is an utility called xvattr that you can use to switch what 
monitor that is allowed to use the xv adaptor.

Regards
Erik

> Thanks for helping! 
> 
> Bernd
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