More experiments getting any external monitor to work on a post-February 2005 PowerBook5,6 15". My goal is clone mode so I can use a beamer.
I am using 2.6.12-rc3 now (I can confirm that sounds works) Using the DVI-to-VGA adaptor I connect a 17"flat panel. Booting up, the external monitor gets a signal, but stays blank. Starting up Xorg (CVS HEAD from two weeks ago) using UseFB, I get nothing on the external one. Trying no UseFB, it never finds a good mode for the second monitor and disables it, there is no display on the laptop panel then, like a switched off backlight. Here is a Xorg.log file, trying with MergeFB: http://intevation.de/Intevation/~bernhard/ppc/powerbook5,6/Xorg.0.log-mergefb-20050425 Starting the old Xfree4.3.x from debian I do get a picture on the external monitor from then on. It stays disorted, though. The best I could get was a correctly looking mouse pointer or disorted stuff. As I do get _some_ output on the external monitor, maybe this is only a problem of configuring the right values. My experiments have not brought usable results. Bernhard On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:59:23AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:04 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:30:02PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > > > > > > > So now I have a fresh CVS build of xorg. > > > > > > > > > > I still cannot get a pictures without using "UseFBDev". > > > > Hrm... UseFBDev does not work with dual head. > > If you are using X.org CVS > > HEAD, it should work with VGA out (but not DVI yet). > > I am a bit in the dark how I should configure this. > Shall I use "UseFBDev" and then what? > > As mentioned, I get unusable disorted output when the external > monitor is plugged in via VGA (over the dvi port) and I am booting my kernel. > But this is unrelated to the xserver.
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