On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:20:45PM -0500, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > There was a few solutions discussed a few weeks ago (rebooting from > > osx to linux, booting with the VGA pluged in, ...). You should check the > > archive. > I made a serach for m6mirror in debian-laptop, and in all debian archives, > but could not find any match. I also looked specifically at debian-laptop > for Feb. 2003, and coul not see anything. I would appreciate, if you could > give me more directions where to find this information.
Don't worry I hit this problem and had a lot of trouble finding information on it too. As a summary of what I found out -- if you have the ATI Radeon Mobility chip then m3mirror won't work for you, it's only for Rage based chips. You can try turning on the laptop and then quickly shutting the screen; this makes OpenFirmware decide an external monitor is attached and will bring it up. This works for me on my iBook, but the laptop screen is corrupt while this is active so it's not really "mirroring". Another option is to boot into OS X and then reboot into linux, which would be working on a similar principle I guess. I haven't tried this. It seems that some people with the later benh kernels have it working if you boot with the monitor plugged in, as there is some extra code that requests OpenFirmware open all attached monitors. For me, with an iBook, I get a solid white screen if I do this, but no actual mirror. With earlier kernels I got nothing. So in summary, try the open/close trick on boot. -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au
