Martin Bright wrote:
--On 25 October 2005 22:34 -0400 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks -- after much straining I have a working debian/sid install
on my new (recycled) laptop. a thinkpad 600E with neomagic nm220 video
chipset. I have a working xorg.conf which unfortunately does not
support the external vga.
This won't really help you. But on my TP600E, with XFree86, when I
plugged it into a data projector it worked perfectly first time. I did
have to press whichever Fn-key it is to enable the external monitor.
I have found that Xorg sometimes blocks the BIOS calls to switch the
VGA output on. Matt, you could try the following quick-and-dirty trick
to circumvent Xorg: Switch to a tty console with e.g. <CRTL> + <ALT> +
<F1> and see if you can then activate the external output via the BIOS
key combination (which is <Fn> + <F8> on a lot of notebooks). If that
works you can try to restart Xorg without switching from the console
("startx" or "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart", etc. depending on your
installation). I have found that Xorg then tends to honor the state of
the VGA output and normally manages to negotiate a suitable display mode
with an attached beamer or monitor. (I have a different notebook and
graphics card, though, your mileage may vary.)
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Florian
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