Hi I have a Windows 7 laptop connected to my 42" HDTV via a Vga cable. I finally figured out how to get the screen to only show on my TV. To do that in Windows find your menu.lst file and use Notepad to add this line at the bottom: DATA= CREATE_DATA_IMG=1 video=LVDS-1:d
initrd /RemixOS/initrd.img
boot
This would be for the 64 bit Remix OS for PC version. So at bootup what happens is it switches to your external monitor and leaves your laptop screen black.
The resolution that it auto selected for my HDTV was only 1024x768 at 60hz. I used the hotkey Alt + F1 to open the Terminal. I type the command wm size 1920x1080
It does change the resolution but it looks centered on my TV with large black rectangles on top, bottom, left, right. How do I get it to show full screen? Thanks for any help and keep up the great work!
I had the same problem with my laptop. The only solution I came up with was opening up the laptop and removing the LCD cable.
Anyone else have suggestions?
Hi slipsystem,
You still have the same problem as me where even with 1080P resolution its still centered and very large black bars on all sides correct? You're not able to get it to be full screen right on your TV? If you use the commands I posted you can plug your lcd cable back. Also I forgot to mention when opening up the Terminal in Remix OS with hotkey Alt + F1, to exit the Terminal use hotkey Alt + F7
I'm not a programmer by any means, but in Ubuntu and Remix OS for PC, there is not an easy way to get it full screen on my 42" HDTV. In Windows its so easy, you right click and change the resolution which it will change on both the laptop and the TV. I hope Google makes it easier in their future builds because many people use an old laptop to watch in their bedroom TV, etc. Thanks.
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When I hook up my prime in r my 720 p TV everything works great, shows the whole screen. But when I hook it up to my 1080p screen it cuts off the outer edge if the screen all the way around. Thick enough to barley see the apps icon on the home screen. But it also does this on my Acer a 500, so I think it is a android issue. Is there a setting that I have never seen before to fix this?
Also I made sure its not the zoom, wide or stretch feature on the TV
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Got the same problem
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When I hook up my prime in r my 720 p TV everything works great, shows the whole screen. But when I hook it up to my 1080p screen it cuts off the outer edge if the screen all the way around. Thick enough to barley see the apps icon on the home screen. But it also does this on my Acer a 500, so I think it is a android issue. Is there a setting that I have never seen before to fix this?
Also I made sure its not the zoom, wide or stretch feature on the TV
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this is an issue with your TV enabling overscan of the HDMI image. on my panasonic plasma TV i had to troll through the advanced picture settings and change the "HD Size" to "Size 2". i don't know why panasonic makes this the default but that's how it goes. once that setting was made the display was a perfect 1080p crop. changing zoom/wide/stretch doesn't solve this problem because all that does is adjust how a sub-1080p image is presented on the 1080p surface.
jackl8 said:
this is an issue with your TV enabling overscan of the HDMI image. on my panasonic plasma TV i had to troll through the advanced picture settings and change the "HD Size" to "Size 2". i don't know why panasonic makes this the default but that's how it goes. once that setting was made the display was a perfect 1080p crop. changing zoom/wide/stretch doesn't solve this problem because all that does is adjust how a sub-1080p image is presented on the 1080p surface.
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This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My TV used to do the same, it's as he says: find overscan, give it the boot!
I wrote this out of frustration for the dev team at splashtop and posted it along with some other stuff on there q&a thread for them.Thought i would share with everyone else thats here.
Heres the reason your getting so many complaints about the full screen and on screen controls not working.
1.NO DETAILED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS.
2.YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THE MOST IMPORTANT THING,WHAT GAME RESOLUTION IT SUPPORTS.
3.SINCE YALL CAN'T SEAM TO GET IT RIGHT I GUESS I"LL HELP YOU SOME.
4.HERE'S MY STEP BY STEP GUIDE.
First things first lets get the resolution out of the way. Since the primes screen resolution is in the HD peramaters it will only support 1280x720 or 1280x800 which is a wide screen ratio of 6:9 or 6:10.This is why everyone is epic failing with the full screen and screen controls, so with further ado heres my quick guide.
1.once you have your splashtop streamer and splashtop THD setup , open your THD app and where your connection shows up at out to the right side on the same line you should see a bubble shaped icon with a (>) on it click that and you'll go to a screen with the option to change your resolution change it to one of the above mentioned too.
2.Back out to the THD connection screen and connect to your computer remotely.
3.Now use your actual computer and not tablet and start Skyrim .Go to options and change your Ratio and Resolution to your resolution you set in STEP 1.Setting the Ratio first will give you the correct resolution choses in the drop down menu.So to get 1280x720 you'll set the ratio 6:9 and for 1280x800 you'll set the ratio to 6:10.
5.Start skyrim and you should be in full screen mode now and all on screen controls should work without problem.
6.Suprise now you can also plug and play with the xbox360 wired-controler.
7.Please Let me know if this was any help!!!!!
I bought a MK802 for a Car PC project that I am doing. I use to have a Windows based Car PC, so I already have six 7inch VGA w/ touchscreens installed. I bought the MK802 specifically for salvaging the screens and because of Androids mobile diversity.
Issue 1: The touch panel is USB based. I plug it in and a mouse pointer pops up on the screen. I am able to move to the left and right correctly. But up and down are inverted, so when I push on the top of the screen, the pointer is at the bottom and when I push at the bottom, it appears on the top. Is there a config file I can edit? maybe switch the commands for up and down?
Issue 2: The MK802 are built for high definition displays with high resolutions. I used a HDMI to VGA converter to convert it to the port I need. Issue is that the screen can only work at a resolution of 800 × 480 (1,152,000) pixels w/ display format: 4:3(800*600 default), 16:9 is optional. When I plug the two together, the screen turns to a red color. Thats with MK802 on 720p. Now if I change it to 480p, I can see the screen, but its not sitting correctly. Is there a file to adjust the resolution to a lower one that will make the screen happy?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Issue 2: The MK802 are built for high definition displays with high resolutions. I used a HDMI to VGA converter to convert it to the port I need. Issue is that the screen can only work at a resolution of 800 × 480 (1,152,000) pixels w/ display format: 4:3(800*600 default), 16:9 is optional. When I plug the two together, the screen turns to a red color. Thats with MK802 on 720p. Now if I change it to 480p, I can see the screen, but its not sitting correctly. Is there a file to adjust the resolution to a lower one that will make the screen happy?
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I think this can be done in screen. I remember seeing that in its option menu. I will test today and see if it works. Also, I noticed that I cant adjust the the format on the MK802. I had screwed something up and flashed the ROM to their supposed latest ROM. It adds a ton of features that seemed to be missing before, but has taken away other features like resolution adjustment.
How did this ever turn out. im looking into to doing something very similar. what do you use for sound processing. any help would be awesome.
I have installed this on my 32 bit PC and it works well except it only goes to my LG HDMI TV 1920x1080 and it displays a little larger than the actual screen. On the Remix mini I could go to settings/display and just click the - to reduce the screen until it fit on my TV.
Remis OS for PC does not seem to have this option in the display settings
Is there a way to do this and is there a way to just have the display to show up on my normal monitor if i want ??
Thanks in advance....
Darryl
Hi.
Just tried playing with RemixOS on a media center pc that I have attached to my TV. At the moment this pc is running a regular linux distro, but I thought it could be interesting to see how Android would work for this purpose. Problem is that my TV is an older 1080p 46" that suffers from an old issue where a large part of the screen is placed behind the massive border on the frame. As such, when running at highest resolution, I loose parts of the screen on each side, top and bottom. I found that running 1366x768 fixes this issue.
RemixOS of cause, is running at 1920x1080 by default, just like any other OS that I have had attached. Difference is that I have no way to change this. I tried changing DPI via kernel boot arguments, but this did not work as it should. The calculations for DPI
Code:
sqrt(1366^2 + 768^2)/46
states that the DPI should be set at 35. But doing so makes everything 100 times smaller on the screen.
How can I get this TV working with RemixOS?