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Bug 528332 - TV-out option greyed out
TV-out option greyed out
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Movie player
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-16 00:46 UTC by giesbert
Modified: 2008-04-16 10:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description giesbert 2008-04-16 00:46:58 UTC 
hi,

i am using totem in ubuntu. under options i find a greyed-out option to activate my NVIDIA TV-out. but i can't find any documentation on the option and am thereby unable to activate the feature. can you please point to some documentation or explain how it works. in case it doesn't i would recommend removing the option as people are getting confused.

thx
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2008-04-16 09:23:52 UTC 
It's grayed out because Totem wasn't built with nvtv support. Talk to your distribution.
Comment 2 giesbert 2008-04-16 09:58:54 UTC 
ok. i will do that. but on the other hand wouldn't it be a good idea to completely remove the option when --enable-nvtv is not set? i think it really confuses the user - who is not easily able to rebuild the package.

does activating the nvtv option have any side effects? especially on computers without nvidia cards? is an nvidia card detected at run-time? hence is the option deactivated on none nvidia cards?

just trying to gather some information in order to get this into my(and maybe others) distro.

thx
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2008-04-16 10:02:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> ok. i will do that. but on the other hand wouldn't it be a good idea to
> completely remove the option when --enable-nvtv is not set? i think it really
> confuses the user - who is not easily able to rebuild the package.

It also means that the user would never know about the feature. Graying out is standard when a feature isn't available.

> does activating the nvtv option have any side effects? especially on computers
> without nvidia cards? is an nvidia card detected at run-time? hence is the
> option deactivated on none nvidia cards?

Activating the nvtv option when you don't have an NVidia card probably just fails, or kills kittens. I haven't tried it.