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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #134365
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 134365

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Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote : Re: Playing Video in Totem blanks screen for 2 seconds

Here is what Keith Packard said on <email address hidden> (08/25/2007 05:28 PM):

Yeah, it's checking to see if you have anything connected to the TV
output. To do that, it needs to temporarily unplug the VGA.

You can avoid this by ignoring the TV output

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "TV"
        Option "Ignore" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 ...
       Option "monitor-TV" "TV"
EndSection

If your machine cannot ever have a TV adapter (even with a docking
station), we can add a quirk to the driver to never look at the TV
output. That requires the pci subsystem values (from lspci -n -v) to
plug into the quirk table.