Mixxx kills my second monitor for visuals

[jesseboyd]

Big fan of Mixxx, thanks coders!

One problem, when I turn on Mixxx it kills my second monitor that I use for visuals.

My system:
Linux Mint on a presario laptop.
Digital Projector connect to VGA output.

Projector displays as a second monitor until I turn on Mixxx then it does not show up. How can I fix this as I need to play projectM along with Mixxx. As a side note it is really hard to sync projectM to Mixxx I can get it to work playing with pulse audio but I actually don't know what the proper settings are.

[Pegasus]

Does this happen even if Mixxx isn't in full screen mode?

[jesseboyd]

yes. everything works fine in say banshee but as soon as i start mixxx, i no longer see a second monitor (configure display settings) goes from 2 to 1. I have an intel


Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 2.6.38-13-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #54-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 3 13:38:12 UTC 2012
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
Distribution Linux Mint 11 Katya

PCI Devices
PCI Devices
Host bridge Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)
VGA compatible controller Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Display controller Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Display
Display
Resolution 1360x768 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.10.1
Monitors
Monitor 0 1360x768 pixels

OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT
Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2
Direct Rendering Yes

Processor
Processor
Name Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz
Family, model, stepping 6, 23, 10 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor Intel
Configuration
Cache Size 1024kb
Frequency 2194.65MHz
BogoMIPS 4389.30
Byte Order Little Endian

[Pegasus]

Okay, thank you for that information. Can you also tell us what Qt version you have installed? Run qtconfig at a console then go to help->about.

[jesseboyd]

$ qtconfig
The program 'qtconfig' can be found in the following packages:
* qt3-qtconfig
* qt4-qtconfig
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

[Pegasus]

Okay, then do

Code: Select all

dpkg -l |grep 'qt4'

They should say the version numbers.

[jesseboyd]

$ dpkg -l |grep 'qt4'
ii libntrack-qt4-1 011-1ubuntu1.1 qt4 API for ntrack
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqt4-declarative 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 Declarative module
ii libqt4-designer 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 designer module
ii libqt4-help 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 help module
ii libqt4-network 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 network module
ii libqt4-opengl 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 OpenGL module
ii libqt4-qt3support 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 4
ii libqt4-script 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 script module
ii libqt4-scripttools 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 script tools module
ii libqt4-sql 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 SQL module
ii libqt4-sql-mysql 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 MySQL database driver
ii libqt4-sql-sqlite 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 SQLite 3 database driver
ii libqt4-svg 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 SVG module
ii libqt4-test 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 test module
ii libqt4-webkit 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 transitional package for Qt 4 WebKit module
ii libqt4-xml 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqt4-xmlpatterns 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.3 Qt 4 XML patterns module
ii python-qt4 4.8.3-2 Python bindings for Qt4
ii python-qt4-dbus 4.8.3-2

[jesseboyd]

i have been wasting a lot of f'n time trying to get pulseaudio to work with mixxx and projectM and i think i finally SOLVED this bit#ch. i went to users and groups and made sure that i checked my user name in audio and anything that had pulse in it. hope that saves some of you some time.