{"id":150,"date":"2008-04-05T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/05\/getting-xv-on-the-projector\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T02:42:08","slug":"getting-xv-on-the-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/05\/getting-xv-on-the-projector\/","title":{"rendered":"getting Xv on the projector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent the afternoon testing various video drivers and hardware with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryceharrington.org\/drupal\/\">Bryce<\/a>.  My &#8220;workflow&#8221; for watching a movie from my laptop on a projector in Hardy is much simpler now.  :)  For ATI, everything Just Works, with one small exception: Xv.  By default (at least with the open ATI driver), the Xv port displays to the LCD on the laptop instead of out an attached VGA port.  This is controlled by the &#8220;XV_CRTC&#8221; Xv attribute, which is settable with the &#8220;xvattr&#8221; utility.<\/p>\n<p>To watch a movie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plug in projector<\/li>\n<li>Open System\/Preferences\/Screen Resolution<\/li>\n<li>Pick nice big resolution for the attached projector<\/li>\n<li>Run &#8220;xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1&#8221; (&#8220;-v 0&#8221; will push Xv back to the LCD)<\/li>\n<li>Eat popcorn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2301\/2390438437_21e34d7a17.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"projector\" \/><\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent the afternoon testing various video drivers and hardware with Bryce. My &#8220;workflow&#8221; for watching a movie from my laptop on a projector in Hardy is much simpler now. :) For ATI, everything Just Works, with one small exception: Xv. By default (at least with the open ATI driver), the Xv port displays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}