Idea #1157: Make TV-Out Easy

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Written by redfoxtx the 29 Feb 08 at 09:13. Category: Graphics.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Make a simple graphical user interface that makes it quick and easy to turn on/off the TV-Out function of any major graphics card - Intel/nVidia/ATI.

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rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 17:50

Xrandr once more.

bescritt wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 23:57

There should be a button on your keyboard which does this. It provides a very solid and usable interface to its functionality.

mendelrat wrote on the 8 Apr 08 at 23:25

xrandr does not work out of the box for me, and diddling with xorg.conf just to get tv-out working seems silly and a major pain. This is a big thing missing, and should be addressed. I agree with redfoxtx.

roberthr wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 11:37

This feature is really needed since I can't persuade users to use Linux without knowing how to setup TV-out. Usually I make xorg.conf for them, but sometimes even I don't have a clue why conf file is not properly set and it takes me hours to find out why. At my position as builder of Linux systems, this things is the most time consuming and frustrating problem on Linux and sometimes it ends up I have to reinstall Windows so user can watch movies on TV again. Eight out of ten users I build systems for need TV-out. There's no proper detection of TV devices, there's no easy GUI way to set things up and this was promised to be made by LInux developers for years and still nothing. Really! What good comes out if I can install ubuntu in half an hour and then spend almost 2 days settings TV-out?

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