[AG-TECH] video only shows on primary display

[Osland, CD (Chris)]

Make sure that all feeds are set to the same resolution and
colour depth - if not the display of the feeds can go to black
as you slide them from one display to another.

Cheers

Chris

____________________________________________________________________
Chris Osland                                               Office tel: +44
(0) 1235 446565
Digital Media and Access Grid                          Medialab tel: +44 (0)
1235 446459
BIT Department                                     Access Grid room tel: +44
(0) 1235 445666
e-mail:   C.D.Osland at rl.ac.uk                                       Fax: +44
(0) 1235 445597
CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Bldg. R18)
Chilton, DIDCOT, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
[The contents of this email are confidential and are for the use of the
intended recipient only.
If you are not the intended recipient do not take any action on it or show
it to anyone else,
but return this email to the sender and delete your copy of it.]




>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Stewart Macneill [mailto:macneisd at dcs.gla.ac.uk] 
> Sent:	22 April 2002 15:23
> To:	ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject:	[AG-TECH] video only shows on primary display
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Just in the process of coaxing our node into life.  I've got the standard
> G450 AGP and G200 PCI configuration set up on a dual CPU IBM
> IntelliStation but have a problem in that the video from my cameras only
> shows up in the primary display.  
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter whether the primary display is set to the LCD
> monitor or a projector, PCI or AGP, as soon as I drag the Vic window onto
> one of the other displays, the feed is lost - if I minimize and restore
> then the window just picks up whatever is behind it.  If I move it back
> into the primary display, I see the video again.
> 
> The only two oddities I have noticed are that W2K Advanced Server (display
> machine) only reports one of the G450 heads in the Matrox window control
> panel,  and the capture computer (also a dual CPU IntelliStation, Red Hat
> 7.2) reports that it can't find a monitor list and is using the 'main'
> display.  I don't know if that is at all significant.
> 
> Has anyone come across this problem?    I had a search through the AG-Tech
> archives, but didn't find anything.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Stewart
> 
> 
> Stewart D Macneill
> NeSC Systems Manager (Glasgow)
> University of Glasgow
> Dept of Computing Science
> 17 Lilybank Gardens
> G12 8RZ
> Tel:  0141 330 3102 (direct)
> Fax: 0141 330 4913
> email: macneisd at dcs.gla.ac.uk <mailto:macneisd at dcs.gla.ac.uk>
>  
>