[jfmanamtr]

I am running XBMC live 10.1 on an HP Pavillion DV6000. I use hook it to a TV in the living room via the external RGB & use a Logitech Harmony One to control it. I am wanting to load the video output to the external RGB connection instead of the laptop's LCD screen. I am not sure how to get this accomplished. Any ideas on how to make this happen?

~JFM

[joeld]

If you have a Nvidia display card, just enable TwinView inside xorg.conf and clone your notebook screen to TV.

[leorik]

You could also try Devils Pie

http://live.gnome.org/DevilsPie

[vbat99]

it seems 'Devils Pie' is for windows, and as this thread is under XBMC Live, I figure your running the linux XBMC version.

Have a look at this thread
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=93249
The Op has one method, and I post another near the bottom.

Both post are setting the output on the laptop on only. My method disables the Laptop's LCD screen if a RGB cable is connected to the RGB port on the laptop.

Hope this is of help.

[leorik]

it seems 'Devils Pie' is for windows, and as this thread is under XBMC Live, I figure your running the linux XBMC version.

Have a look at this thread
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=93249
The Op has one method, and I post another near the bottom.

Both post are setting the output on the laptop on only. My method disables the Laptop's LCD screen if a RGB cable is connected to the RGB port on the laptop.

Hope this is of help.

Devils pie is for Linux. I run it under ubuntu every day.

[vbat99]

Devils pie is for Linux. I run it under ubuntu every day.

Sorry, my bad. again, I didn't read the full page.

To jfmanamtr, did you succeed in getting this working?

[X3lectric]

what vbat99 posted is of great value idk why its being ignored, over some devils pie which is apprently not as easy to setup and thers no reall how-to attached to it. I wouldn't know where to start with that and I know a little bit of Linux, the other stuff posted below seems better documented and tested.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=93249

[jfmanamtr]

Sorry for the long time no posting. My job just laid off 90 people & I was really working my tail off to not be counted among those unfortunate people. I am still unable to get this to work. I tried turning on the twin screen to no avail. I ran xrandr -d :0 -q & saw that I only have one screen showing up. I am guessing my xorg.conf isn't right? I will post xorg.conf & lspci to see if we can get this figured out. Note that I didn't make any changes to this install, it is 10.1 default.

lspci
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Code:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
07:05.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 0a)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 05)
07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

xorg.conf
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Code:

HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Option      "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
    Option      "HWCursor" "Off"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "true"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

[darkscout]

You need to tell Xorg to launch 2 separate X instances.

Open Terminal on each window. Type "echo $DISPLAY".

You can then either launch XBMC on the second display OR type
"export DISPLAY=<DISPLAY>" where <DISPLAY> matches what the TV's display was.

[jfmanamtr]

I don't have 2 displays at the moment. Once I get it to show on the TV & laptop's LCD, It shows the same thing on bith displays.The Issue I am having is that in order to get anything on the TV, I have to push a button on the Harmony marked display after the laptop is through booting. It is almost like XBMC doesn't know there are 2 displays on this laptop.

~JFM

[jfmanamtr]

I was just fiddling with my XBMC when I noticed something weird. I had the laptop open & the LCD & TV were showing the exact same thing up until the point that XBMC finally loads. Any idea on what to check for that?

~John