Am Donnerstag 24 Juni 2010, 01:14:44 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > Laptop: dell E6510 > Gentoo: ~amd64 > Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M > > I am unable to drive the VGA output. Symptoms include > > * Executing "xrandr" does not mention LVDS or VGA > (and using --output VGA gives a warning that VGA doesn't exist) try with default like : xrandr --output default --mode 1280x1024
xrandr without options show the available resolutions, second line shows the output names, like "DVI-0 connected" or "default connected". on my one box with the nvidia driver i have "default connected" > * Pushing Fn-F8 produces a "p" (the keycap of f8 shows in blue a picture > of a laptop and a monitor) instead of showing the screen on the other > display. > > The xorg.conf file generated by nvidia-xconfig (below) is fairly simple. > I just added the module section at the end. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > allan > > ================================================================ > > # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig > # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeis...@builder58) Thu Apr 22 > 20:35:23 PDT 2010 > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # generated from default > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Unknown" > HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 > VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "Module" > # Load "dri" > load "glx" > EndSection
