Re: latest radeon driver and full screen video

Romain JACQUET wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm playing with the experimental version of xserver-xorg-video-ati
> (6.7.196-2).
> I'm using a big desktop configuration with a LCD computer screen on
> the vga output and LCD TV on the DVI output.
> I want to use the TV screen to watch films.
>
> When I play a video on the first screen, the video is fine. But I want
> to play a video on the second screen, I choose
> the 16:9 aspect ratio in gmplayer, the video is shifted to the up of
> the screen. It mean I see a black rectangular area on the bottom of
> the screen.
>
> Is the problem related to gmplayer or to xserver-xorg-video-ati?
>
> Any ideas are welcomed.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.

This *sounds* like you're having a problem where the screens have a different vertical resolution and since X deals with a rectangular virtual desktop [0] there is dead space above the second screen but the video output is centered vertically on the virtual desktop not the resolution of the screen.

You can probably tell mplayer to move things down, or you could get your second display to center on the virtual desktop using something like

        Option "CRT2Position" "LeftOf 176" in your xorg.conf if you're using MergedFB, instead of 176 you'd use half the difference in vertical resolution between your primary and secondary displays.

Good luck and let us know how it goes, if you have more questions post here but you may want to include more details.

[0] I think this the true irrespective of weather your using MergedFB, XRandR or Xinorama and probably TwinView

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