Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong category I couldn't find anything xv specific so I picked on the driver instead. I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 with on board ATI Mobility 7500 graphics. Works great with the radeon driver using DRM but xv overlays won't expand to full screen when outputting to my external monitor at 1280x1024. It's very difficult to describe...the video -appears- to be stretching to the full screen but I get a kind of "viewport" effect where I get a box (I am guessing its 1024x768 in size, roughly) and if I move the box around I can move the "viewport" and see parts of the movie that are hidden. If the movie isn't full screen and I have, say, xine, at the top of the screen and I move the mouse to the bottom of the screen some of the video that's playing is hidden. If you can tell me how to do screenshots of overlayed stuff I'll show you what I mean...I hope I've described it properly. Laptop display panel runs at 1024x768, external output is set at 1280x1024.
Sorry, I meant to say if I move the MOUSE around, the box seems to move with the mouse cursor, which moves the box around. The box would be like if I covered part of the screen with black cardboard that has a hole cut in it. Apologies for the screwy explanation it's very difficult to describe, I've never seen this before :/
this sounds like http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#screen-size . this was also reported in xf86 bugzilla, where comment 9 is a pretty much spot-on analysis of the problem. just to clarify: when doing full-screen Xv, you get the viewport effect on the smaller screen (ie, the laptop LCD, running at 1024x768)? if so, what happens when you run the external monitor at the same resolution?
Ah no. Sorry hehe. I don't even look at the laptop screen this "effect" is on my monitor. Imagine you're watching Spiderman at full screen on a 1280x1024 display. The video proportionately looks like it has been stretched to that size. However, there is a frame that LOOKS like it is 1024x768 in size, surrounded by black covering the movie. So you can only see 1024x768 pixels of this movie at a time. If I move my mouse to the bottom right hand corner of my 1280x1024 desktop, I can see the "bottom right 1024x768 corner" of the movie output. Let me try some lame ascii art example here: *************************************** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *************************************** So imagine that is my screen at 1280x1024. If I play a movie and stretch it to full screen and my mouse cursor happens to be top left of my desktop: *************************************** * | * * | * * | * * | * *----------------------- * * * * * *************************************** The box I have added represents how much of the movie I can see. If I move my mouse around inside that box the box doesn't move. However if my mouse cursor "pushes" any one of the box's edges, the box moves in that direction. So if I moved my mouse to the right, that box will move to the right, revealing hidden movie elements but hiding parts of the movie off to the left (because the box moved to the right). Confused yet? lol I know I am. I suppose it is like putting a picture into a picture frame that fits, but then putting a sheet of cardboard over the picture with a hole cut into it that is smaller than the picture. To see different parts of the picture you'd need to move the cardboard around. I reiterate though, this is not the laptop display panel. This is an external monitor with the drivers set to output the hardware overlay onto the external display.
i'm familiar with the effect; it's a feature, believe it or not. what happens when you run the external display at 1024x768?
It works fine if the display is either set to 1024x768 externally or if I set the overlay to appear on the laptop panel. Is there any way to fix this? My wife and I usually watch movies on the computer at full screen.
Why has someone put a url to an xfree bug in the URL field? I see no solution over there...
So what is reported here is not a bug but a feature designed to work around a limitation of the Radeon 7500?
Are you still experiencing this problem with a more current version of xorg?
Ping!
Assuming this is clone mode, it sounds like the driver incorrectly uses the panel dimensions to determine the size and offset of the overlay even when the overlay is on the external display. It might be enlightening to see full config and log files.
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