Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD, it plays nicely on the laptop. then, connected an external (samsung WUXGA) flat-panel monitor via DVI, and the entire laptop display is reflected nicely on the monitor *except* for the actual DVD image in the VLC window -- that just shows up as blank, either in regular or fullscreen mode (in fullscreen mode, the entire external display is blank, even while the movie is playing on the laptop). i'm no expert at video so, somehow, the DVD image is not being passed out on DVI, while everything else is. thoughts? is there a VLC setting to tweak this? this is a dell inspiron 9200 so it's a fairly old system -- at least a couple years. but until now, running external displays off that DVI port has worked just fine. so why is the DVD video content being treated this way? rday
ok, i just realized what the problem is -- the onboard video simply isn't powerful enough to display the playing movie both on the laptop display and on the external display, so i simply need to disable the laptop display. and one would think this would be easy -- there is a blue "CRT/LCD" on F8, leading me to conclude that a simple Fn/F8 should do it. sadly, that key combo has no effect. how odd, since it's *exactly* what i want to do -- disable onboard video and drive external video. i will now google, but if someone knows how to get that on an inspiron 9200, i am *so* interested in hearing it. rday -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
