Hi, * Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> [110502 10:14]: > On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:17 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting anything to output from my X40 ThinkPad to > > an external VGA monitor. Under X, `xrandr -q` outputs the following > > regardless of whether or not the external monitor is plugged in: > > > > % xrandr -q > > Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 > > default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm > > 1024x768 0.0* > > 800x600 61.0 > > > > Pressing Fn+F7 and typing `xrandr --output VGA --auto` has no > > effect...the external monitor remains totally blank. > > (...) > > I've seen some reports related to problems with the VGA output in X40 > ThinkPad notebooks: > > xserver-xorg-video-intel: corruption on external VGA display > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569135 > > [i855gm] VGA out flickering after upgrade to lucid (regression) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/589140 > > After reading the bugs, it is still no clear (at least for me) if the > problem can be bypassed somehow (by installing an updated video driver/ > xorg version/kernel) or still open/unsolved.
I updated xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-core & xserver-xorg-video-intel but the problem persisted until I updated the kernel from linux-image-2.6.28-grml to linux-image-2.6.31-grml. Now the external monitor is recognized no problem. Thanks for the reply, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110503060124.ga2...@s70206.gridserver.com
