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PLEASE can some one help me configurate a xorg.conf so that I can see the picture on my vga output and not only on my laptop screen. I would really love to get some help on that because I am just not getting it to work...
Xbmc is great but XBMC on my TV Set would be awesome!!!
Please, I need some help on that
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I am having an Toshiba Portege R500 if that matters...
Intel Core2Duo U7600 ULV...
Thanks
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Can you give us a lot more information please.
connection type
TV informortion.
Video Card info
and a copy of your existing xorg.conf.
Most Tv's other than the newest LCD limit the VGA input as I understand. We can likely help you but we need more info.
Is this a laptop you are trying to setup, make sure your VGA output on the laptop is live all the time or dual mode is turned on.
Dave
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In my case (DELL D420, Intel graphics) the VGA output gets automatically selected when I boot with the lid CLOSED, meaning being the VGA the ONLY screen.
I haven't dig deep enough as it works fine for me, but it proves the autodetect routing works fine and at the end my goal is to use the big screen, not both. Note you can open the lid once the output is selected to use the keyboard and mouse but it won't behave like Windows that can use both screens at the same time, at least not for me.
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2008-12-06, 15:17
(This post was last modified: 2008-12-06, 16:20 by pepijndamen.)
I've a similar problem. I'm using a Dell E6400 laptop connected via VGA to my Sony 40V2000. XBMC Live is installed on the internal HDD, and everything boots up fine when I have the lid of the laptop closed (I guess the res is 640x480 when XBMC boots). You can see the XBMC loading screen, but when it tries to show the xbmc dashboard, it switches to a different resolution that my Sony doesn't understand, and the TV says no signal. I changed the screen settings to 720p, and PAL 16/9, but it still reverts back to my laptop screen whenever XBMC dashboard starts up. Can someone help me out?
Update: On my other Sony, the 32D3000, I get the same message
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Why do you guys for the heck of it try and set your laptop resolution to like 1024x768 or the like and boot up and see if that helps. I think the issues is with dual display running you need to be able to set one res for your laptop and one for the VGA output is causing the issue. The nvidia driver with dual display allows for this setting in M$ but not sure in Linux.
Dave