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On Monday 08 May 2006 17:41, Gil Weber wrote:

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Jurgen, thanks for the reply. I looked at and found lots of options. But nothing jumps out at me as applying to second head displays.

Perhaps I'm not experienced enough to know what I am looking at?

Are you saying that viewing the videos in Xine (with a special option for the video output) might work where neither Totem nor Kaffeine did work? Or am I not understanding?

Maybe a major stumbling block in figuring this out is that I do not have a projector to test possible solutions. I will get my first chance in 2 weeks, when I fly 1500 miles to lecture and only then connect to a projector. Yikes! What a mess.

Gil, my idea behind using xine directly is to make things simpler. As kaffeine is only the graphical front-end for xine, using it directly will remove one step of complexity. If you get it to work with xine directly, you can then edit the setting in kaffeine so that you can use it as the front-end. xine has serveral video drivers (option -V or --video-driver). You should try all of them and see whether you get any picture at all on your notebook and if that works on an external monitor (try to get a monitor which allows similar settings as your projector).

For more information about xine's video drivers you can go to

http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#VIDEODRIVER

My guess would be that xine -V XShm might provide the best chances but depending on your graphics hardware another of the drivers provided might also work. You could also try to use another graphics driver for your X server if any is available.

Sorry, you will have to put some time into trial and error here and the outcome is pretty unsure. This is one of the points where 'that other OS' is much better supported by the hardware producers.

Bye, Jürgen - --

Thanks. I'll dig into this. ;-) Gil