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2011-07-22, 02:49
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
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joeld
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If you have a Nvidia display card, just enable TwinView inside xorg.conf and clone your notebook screen to TV.
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2011-07-27, 05:18
(This post was last modified: 2011-07-27, 05:20 by 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
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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.
Code:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `xbmc_%`.* TO 'xbmc'@'%';
IF you have a mysql problem, find one of the 4 dozen threads already open.
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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.
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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