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User 31.01.2008 07:28:02 | RB Windows on Leopard with HDMI | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. I've been using RB on Tiger for over a year, with no problems. I upgraded to Leopard, recently and ever since the RB windows have been acting weird when shown on my 1080i plasma. I'm hooked to the TV via an s-video to hdmi cable. When I run with
the laptop cover cracked open, OS/X picks my laptop screen's video
resolution and RB works as it always has. When I run with the cover
closed, OS/X picks my plasma TV's resolution. I can see most of my
desktop fine, just an couple of centimeters clipping around all the
edges. However, the initial RB screen appears so just it's top right
side appears at the bottom left of the TV. Tonight, I experimented
and pushed the left arrow button on my remote. The application
window appeared at the bottom center of the TV screen, so all I could
see was the icon at its top. I used the down arrow on my remote to
scroll down till the Front Row chair icon appeared and entered Front
Row. It works perfectly on the screen. I managed to keep the screen in its 1080i mode and get the cover
cracked enough to use my scroll pad. Unfortunately, I couldn't grab
either window to reposition them. Is there any way to change RB to put its windows in the center of the screen? Harry
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| User 01.02.2008 14:21:02 | Re: RB Windows on Leopard with HDMI | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Remote Buddy should actually automatically adapt to resolution changes. If you change the resolution manually via System Preferences > Screen
Settings .. does it adapt after a few seconds (if possible, try twice
- once with the menu open and once with the menu closed)? Thanks in advance for any additional info you can provide. Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 06.02.2008 09:18:02 | Re: RB Windows on Leopard with HDMI | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Sorry it took so long to try stuff out. Here's what happened. .. Tried setting the resolution manually, as you requested. No
change. Remote Buddy comes up with its window in the middle of the
screen. I shut the cover and a few seconds later Remote Buddy moves
it to the lower left corner of the screen. When I exited the window
via the USB remote's menu button, the window went away. When I
reentered via the menu button, the Remote Buddy window came back to
the lower left corner.
.. Tried deleting the ColorSync profiles for my TV, via System
Preferences>Display. Of the 4 I had set up, I could only delete 1.
The delete button wouldn't enable for the others.
.. Ran Disk Utility and had it fix permissions up.
.. I still couldn't delete the ColorSync profiles from Display.
.. Moved the profiles from /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays to my
Desktop with sudo.
.. Tried Remote Buddy, again with the same symptoms.
.. Played around connecting and disconnecting the HDMI cable and my
USB remote. At one point the LCD display appeared to loose sync, and
I couldn't get control, either from the keyboard or the remote.
.. Powered down the laptop.
.. Powered up the laptop with the HDMI cable and the USB remote
attached. Closed the cover while the white boot screen was
displaying. When everything appeared to be up I pushed the USB
remote's menu key. Front Row came up and worked fine (everything in
the middle of the screen). Exited Font Row and a few seconds later
Remote Buddy came up, but this time its window stayed in the middle
of the screen. I tried bringing Remote Buddy up and down as well as switching
displays several times. Everything seems to work now. Harry
At 2:21 PM +0100 2/1/08, Felix wrote: Remote Buddy should actually automatically adapt to resolution changes. If you change the resolution manually via System Preferences > Screen
Settings .. does it adapt after a few seconds (if possible, try twice
- once with the menu open and once with the menu closed)? Thanks in advance for any additional info you can provide. Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 09.02.2008 00:38:03 | Re: Re: RB Windows on Leopard with HDMI | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks for the info. Closing the lid may be the missing info (or the info I oversaw). I'll try it out later on another MBP. This has nothing to do with ColorSync profiles, disk permissions or
similiar, though - and you really shouldn't delete the ColorSync
profiles, either as I'm not sure you'll still be able to use your Mac
without them. They contain color space transformation information, but
don't have anything to do with resolutions, their change or similiar. Did I understand you correctly when I say that the issue is resolved
for you? Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 09.02.2008 09:15:01 | Re: Re: RB Windows on Leopard with HDMI | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. At 12:38 AM +0100 2/9/08, Felix wrote: Thanks for the info. Closing the lid may be the missing info (or the info I oversaw). I'll try it out later on another MBP. This has nothing to do with ColorSync profiles, disk permissions or
similiar, though - and you really shouldn't delete the ColorSync
profiles, either as I'm not sure you'll still be able to use your Mac
without them. They contain color space transformation information, but
don't have anything to do with resolutions, their change or similiar. Did I understand you correctly when I say that the issue is resolved
for you? Best regards,
Felix Schwarz Yes, it's resolved for me. I didn't delete the ColorSync profiles, just moved them to my
Desktop. A new ColorSync profile for my TV seems to have been
generated when I plugged in my cable. I wouldn't be surprised if
OS/X wasn't reading something over the HDMI interface. I'm still
mystified on how I ended up with 4 profiles for my TV, or why 3
couldn't be deleted. Harry
| User 10.02.2008 21:55:02 | Re: Re: RB Windows on Leopard with HDMI | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. At 9:15 AM +0100 2/9/08, Harry wrote: At 12:38 AM +0100 2/9/08, Felix wrote: Thanks for the info. Closing the lid may be the missing info (or the info I oversaw). I'll try it out later on another MBP. This has nothing to do with ColorSync profiles, disk permissions or
similiar, though - and you really shouldn't delete the ColorSync
profiles, either as I'm not sure you'll still be able to use your Mac
without them. They contain color space transformation information, but
don't have anything to do with resolutions, their change or similiar. Did I understand you correctly when I say that the issue is resolved
for you? Best regards,
Felix Schwarz Yes, it's resolved for me. Replied too fast. Last night it came back, but I was able to resolve the problem faster. I was watching a DVD. I exited DVD Player to Remote Buddy and watched the window relocate to the left bottom of the screen a couple of seconds later. I fixed it with the following steps: 1) I opened the cover and restarted using the Apple Menu restart.
2) After clicking on restart in the OS/X dialog box, I closed the
laptop's cover and watched the restart from my TV.
3) After the Remote Buddy Startup window cleared, I hit the menu
button on my RF remote and was put directly into Front Row.
4) I exited and retried several times for 5 minutes, always going
directly to Front Row.
5) I removed the RF remote USB dongle and replaced it, with no change.
6) I opened the cover and tried again. Remote buddy came up with
it's window in the correct place.
7) I closed the cover and tried Remote Buddy several times.
Everything is fine again. Harry
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