Ubuntu :: S-Video Out On Lucid With Xrandr?
May 15, 2010
I used to have older version of ubuntu (previous to Lucid,10.4 LTS), and I have a Sony WEGA TV connected to my unbutu laptop w S-Video card connected for Video out...and I used to run following command to activate S-Video out to my TV and it worked perfect...
here's the command that worked :
~$ xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1
Now after updating to Lucid/10.4 LTS, this command started getting an error :
~$ xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1
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Feb 20, 2010
I have a new machine with OpenSUSE 11.2 and KDE 4.3. I have 2 monitors. The second monitor is set to extend the screen to the right. Everytime I logged on, I had to reset the resolution to auto and set the second monitor to the right. The setup didn't seem to be remembered and kdm definitely fell to the smaller resolution when I logged off. I stopped using krandr because it did strange things (it always seemed to wipe out the setup when I simply started it), and used xrandr. When I queried, using xrandr, it showed the main monitor on DVI0 and the second monitor on VGA2. The hardware and commands used are shown below.
I created a bash script to activate and deactivate the second monitor using the 2 commands below. It was working nicely. On, off, on, off, it was exactly what I wanted. I added it to my KDE auto start through the Computer Setting dialog. I tried it a couple of times in succession but then something happened. The main monitor is gone, and by gone I mean orange light, grub complains about the vga= resolution ("undefined video mode" and doesn't show higher resolutions). I only have the second monitor/VGA2 and when I query xrandr it shows DVI0 shows disconnected!. When I boot, I see the console messages on DVI0, but as soon as it gets to kdm, it switches to VGA2 and DVI0 has no video signal. To add weirdness, when I do a clt-alt-f1 it appears on DVI0.Second Monitor: Sceptre X96-Naga II Resolution: 1280x1024Video: GEFORCE 9600 GT 1GB DDR3Driver: OpenSUSE nvCommands:xrandr --output DVI0 --auto --pos 0x0 --output VGA2 --auto --right-of DVI0xrandr --output DVI0 --auto --pos 0x0 --output VGA2 --off
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1280x800 50.0* 51.0 56.0 52.0
1024x768 52.0 50.0
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Assert failed :_offset<=pakSize
at line 352, file /build/buildd/avidemux-2.5.2/avidemux/ADM_inputs/ADM_asf/ADM_asfPacket.cppADM_backTrack
asfPacket:ushPacket(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)
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E: Couldn't find package nvidia-glx-195
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Code:
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
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Code:
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