I have a TFT monitor (VGA-0) and an LCD TV (DVI-0) connected to my Radeon X800 card.
I would like to work on my TFT monitor while showing movies on the TV. So I want a "full-screen" 1280x1024 resolution on the monitor, and a different screen (is this the correct term under X?) with a "full-screen" 1360x768 resolution on DVI-0, where mplayer can run in full-screen mode. (I don't want dual-head/two keyboards and mice, but the same keyboard input for both, and I don't necessarily need mouse input for the TV screen at all.)
How do I set this up?
I run (gentoo packages) xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1, xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (RandR version 1.2).
Neither man radeon nor man xrandr mentions this setup, as far as I can see. And googling for this is almost pointless given how much these things have changed during the last year or so - there's just too much obsolete info to sort through. (The info I have managed to find only covers using a large virtual desktop with the different monitors displaying different parts of it.)
xrandr --help shows options -display and --screen, but with no indications on how to use them.
The situation I have right now is both monitors display the same screen, which presents some problems. I can get mplayer to overlay on the TV using -adapter 1, but full screen mode centers the picture as if the resolution was 1280x1024, not 1360x768 (so the picture appears much too low on the TV). Also, since the monintors display the same thing I cannot do other things on the monitor while running the movie on the TV.
Help, please?
I would like to work on my TFT monitor while showing movies on the TV. So I want a "full-screen" 1280x1024 resolution on the monitor, and a different screen (is this the correct term under X?) with a "full-screen" 1360x768 resolution on DVI-0, where mplayer can run in full-screen mode. (I don't want dual-head/two keyboards and mice, but the same keyboard input for both, and I don't necessarily need mouse input for the TV screen at all.)
How do I set this up?
I run (gentoo packages) xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1, xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (RandR version 1.2).
Neither man radeon nor man xrandr mentions this setup, as far as I can see. And googling for this is almost pointless given how much these things have changed during the last year or so - there's just too much obsolete info to sort through. (The info I have managed to find only covers using a large virtual desktop with the different monitors displaying different parts of it.)
xrandr --help shows options -display and --screen, but with no indications on how to use them.
The situation I have right now is both monitors display the same screen, which presents some problems. I can get mplayer to overlay on the TV using -adapter 1, but full screen mode centers the picture as if the resolution was 1280x1024, not 1360x768 (so the picture appears much too low on the TV). Also, since the monintors display the same thing I cannot do other things on the monitor while running the movie on the TV.
Help, please?
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