Fwd: problems with VLC and Totem playing image on external monitor

Gary Kirkpatrick pegngary at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 17:33:56 UTC 2008


Thanks for your generosity, and the others who have been helping me too.

I think I tried 'auto'  I am going to try it all once again and make notes.

By the way, is my email client failing to send some portions of the thread?


G

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Kilian Rambach <kilian.rambach at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Perhaps you have to check LVDS "auto" to reenable the internal monitor?
> I am not sure...
> By the way, don't hesitate to ask questions, if I didnt' want to answer,
> I wouldn't ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Kilian
>
> Gary Kirkpatrick schrieb:
> > I have trouble finding what I am looking for on Help and Support.   I
> > always gothere first, although perhaps I give up too soon.  I do a
> > search on the issue; sometimes I might not use the correct vocabulary.
> >
> > Someone wrote a good essay on linux that I've lost.
> >
> > I installed grandr and got the link to display on a menu.  Using that
> > menu I can disable the internal monitor and dvds will play on the
> > external monitor.  So far so good.
> >
> > When I want to re-enable the internal monitor I have problems.   As I
> > recall from last night, I uncheck LDVS 'off.'   I then lose the external
> > monitor and either the internal one does not reactivate (that's what
> > happened the first time) or the internal monitor reactivates without the
> > mouse and I lose the external one.
> >
> > If this does not make sense, don't spend a lot of your time on it, let
> > me know and I'll try again and write down what happens.  I am having to
> > recall from last night.
> >
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Mario Vukelic
> > <mario.vukelic at dantian.org <mailto:mario.vukelic at dantian.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 18:13 -0400, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >      > If I could find a good manual I'd read through it.
> >
> >     Menu System > Help and Support is a good place to start, and this
> post
> >     of mine has some pointers:
> >
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-April/144432.html
> >
> >     :)
> >
> >
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