Hi,
On Nov 23, 2007 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver
> works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details
> below ..
I became a bit more adventurous and tried out the experimental ati
driver... Hotplugging a VGA monitor seems to work (on my iBook G4 -
powerbook 6,5) exactly as hotplugging should, that is without any
"xrandr --output --DVI-0 --auto" command - wow that is just insanely
cool.... The low contrast issue that I had mentioned in my earlier
mail, is almost solved now, I can see the light colors fine - but it
is still not "pleasing"...
> On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 03:04 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > >
> > > What I know is, that with xrandr 1.2 hotplugging a 2nd monitor to a
> > > 5.8 alubook doesn't do anything at all. Not out of the box, and not
> > > here on unstable Debian with packages from a few days ago and kernel
> > > 2.6.18 ...
seems to do hotplugging on 2.6.22-3 that i got from unstable and
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.196-1 from experimental. I am not sure if
the kernel plays any role at all...
> > The kernel doesn't matter for this. With xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.19x
> > (so far only available in experimental), external displays with a VGA
> > connector should work with all Radeon {Power,i}Books. Displays with a
> > DVI connector can be trickier; depending on the PowerBook model and
> > driver version, Option "MacModel" "powerbook" or "powerbook-duallink"
> > may help for those.
For the iBook, I am using Option "MacModel" "ibook" ...
> > Note that hotplugging a monitor per se isn't expected to have any direct
> > effect; something like
> >
> > xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
I don't actually need to do this, but if I do (note for my case: the
output is VGA-0 instead of DVI-0: "xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto"), I
get a higer resolution (1280x1024) external monitor display; where my
iBook's LCD is 1024x768 max. This projects the iBook's LCD screen to
the 1024x768 block on the upper-left corner of the 1280x1024 external
monitor - resulting in empty-but-accessable strips on the right and
bottoom edge of the external monitor. How do I get back to 1024x768
resolution on the external display?
> This is what it obviously does:
> --------------------------------------
> $ xrandr -q ## MY OUTPUT:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1280 x 1200
LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
245mm x 184mm
1024x768 60.0*+
800x600 60.3
640x480 59.9
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0 + 75.0 59.9
1280x960 59.9
1152x864 75.0 74.8
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0*
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> ------------------------------------------
>
> All I did - after installing xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.196-1 - was
> adding a single extra line to the xorg.conf that I attached to a
> message earlier in this thread:
thanks Wolfgang, I did the same, and your original xorg.conf file
worked nicely here.
>
> diff -u xorg.conf xorg.conf.07.11.23
> --- xorg.conf 2007-11-23 11:50:29.000000000 +0100
> +++ xorg.conf.07.11.23 2007-11-23 11:48:08.000000000 +0100
> @@ -96,7 +96,6 @@
> Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000]"
> Driver "ati"
> BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
> - Option "MacModel" "powerbook"
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
> Option "AGPSize" "16"
> Option "AGPMode" "4"
>
> and restarting X.
As I mentioned - Option "MacModel" "iBook" -
instead of "powerbook" here.
> Oh yes: and
> xrandr --output DVI-0 --off
> switches the attached VGA off ... the alubook screen is shaking a bit
> for ~ half a sec, but it works.
i don't get any 'shakes' as such but it seems to 'refresh'. BTW, i do
get my bit of 'shake' for ~ 1 sec when ibook actually boots - artifact
of all debian installations on my machine, did not happen with
kubuntu/opensuse.
> Sidenotes:
>
> Since installing the new driver some artifacts are visible around the
> mouse-pointer in its default "arrow" image ... Please let me know if
> a photo from that might help ...
for once, thankfully, i didn't see this issue on my end.
A load of warm greetings to all the coders on this.....good work guys.
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Regards
PK
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