video playback on quad head system

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:13:47 +0100 Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com>
babbled:

> Hey all,
> 
> I am trying to playback video on a quad head system, and it works, but i
> have some strange effects. I have 4 monitors, 1,2,3 and 4, they are all
> connected to a Ati FireMV 2400 PCI that has two M9 chips. Monitor 1 and
> 2 are connected to the first chip , monitor 3 and 4 to the second chip.
> 
> If i now start a mplayer and move it from monitor 1 to 4,  i get a black
> picture as soon as the windows is partly on monitor 1 and 2, or if it is
> partly on monitor 3 and 4. I do have a picture when it is partly on
> monitor 2 and 3.  Now i am wondering since monitor 1&2 are just one big
> frame buffer, why is the picture black when it is not fully on one
> monitor ? 
> 
> Dis i miss some configuration option ? 

i have noticed that some chipsets dont support xv overlays on different outputs. my r250 has that problem. xv works on the lcd but not on vga out (laptop) in both the ati fglrx and radoen open drivers. i think its a chip limitation with xv of only having overlay on 1 output not both.

> Any info is welcome.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Erwin
> 
> 
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