Re: no picture - movie window is black

H}kan Hjort <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:30:00 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.ogle.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Sat Jan 10 2004, Steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a cobbled-up Sony VIAO using an external Hitachi flat panel 
> display.  The laptop's original display quit and has been romoved but I 
> can't open bios to disable it or check its status. Ogle runs and I hear 
> the DVD sound track, but the picture window is just black. The same 9.2 
> Ogle distro works fine on my desktop with a similar Radeon 7500 graphics 
> controller. I don't see anything obvious in XF86Config.
> 
That is bad. Most graphics cards seem to only be able to either use Xv
on the primary (or one of) the outputs or only if the second output isn't
used.  

Try asking on the XFree86 and/or the gatos mailing lists/irc channels.

Regards
Håkan