Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector

[Philippe Hupé]

Peter Henseler a écrit : Hi Phil, On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:57:38PM +0200, Philippe Hupé wrote: I have a powerbook G4 and I would like to know how to get the display on an external monitor or with a videoprojector. Do you have any idea? I am using a kernel 2.6.12 with xfree server. My computer is the following: processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666MHz revision : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips : 1658.88 machine : PowerBook5,6 motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified memory : 2048MB pmac-generation : NewWorld On my Powerbook G4 15" (PowerBook5,2) I was able to mirror my internal display on an external screen. Therefore I had to install the Debian Package xserver-xorg instead of using the xfree86 server. Afterwards I had to make the following modifications of the file /etx/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 9600" Driver "radeon" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 9600 Card1" Driver "radeon" Screen 1 Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "External Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Radeon 9600" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x854" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "External Screen" Device "ATI Radeon 9600 Card1" Monitor "External Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "1280x854" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" Screen "External Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection So far I have not been able to get the option xinerama to work, but the clone mode works perfectly. You just have to restart the x-server. HTH, Peter I made the modifications suggested by Peter. But nothing happens. At boot, my external monitor keeps white. Does anybody have an idea? thanks for your help Phil Here is more information about my powerbook G4: kernel 2.6.12 x server: xorg 6.8.2 processor       : 0 cpu             : 7447A, altivec supported clock           : 1666MHz revision        : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips        : 1658.88 machine         : PowerBook5,6 motherboard     : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as     : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags      : 0000001b L2 cache        : 512K unified memory          : 2048MB pmac-generation : NewWorld 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 0001:10:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 0001:10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:24:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80)