Interesting.  I hadn't tried using the external VGA output on my laptop.
I'm seeing pretty much what you describe, only I find that if I set the Boot Display Device in the BIOS to VGA+LCD, then I get external video output on the monitor. There's output in X, too. Even the Fn-F7 toggling seems to work.

--Matt

--On Wednesday, January 10, 2007 03:46:59 PM +0100 Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

I'm running OpenBSD 3.9-stable on a Lenovo (formerly IBM) Thinkpad T43p.
X (X.org 6.9.0) works fine either
(a) without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or
(b) using the /etc/X11/xorg.conf from http://www.enting.se/T43/xorg.conf
   (which is linked from the T43 entry in
     http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html).
All the behavior I describe below is identical for (a) and (b).

The built-in LCD display works fine at 1600x1200.
My problem is that I can't get external video output properly.  There
seem to be two cases (neither one of which fits my definition of
"properly"): * If, in the BIOS setup, I set "Boot Display Device" to
"LCD", then   I can get 1600x1200 VGA output when booting and before I
start X,   but I get no external video output at all once I start X.
* If, in the BIOS setup, I set "Boot Display Device" to "VGA+LCD" or
  "VGA+DVI+LCD", then I get no external video output when booting and
  before I start X, but when I start X I get only 640x480 resolution
  (and matching external video output).

Does anyone know how to get a T43p to simultaneously
* run X,
* use a decent screen resolution (minimum 1024x768, prefer 1280x1024
  and/or 1600x1200)
* send this video to the external VGA connector so I can display things
  on a video projector

Here are my dmesg and the /etc/X11/xorg.conf from (b) above:

=== begin dmesg ===
OpenBSD 3.9-stable (GENERIC) #9: Tue Jan  9 16:30:11 CET 2007
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz ("GenuineIntel"
686-class) 2.13 GHz cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUS
H,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2 cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep
1600 MHz (1356 mV): speeds: 2130, 1800, 1600, 1400, 1200, 1000, 800,
600 MHz real mem  = 2145886208 (2095592K)
avail mem = 1951961088 (1906212K)
using 4278 buffers containing 107397120 bytes (104880K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(8d) BIOS, date 09/15/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xfd760 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: battery life expectancy 97%
apm0: AC on, battery charge high
apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd6f0/0x910
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdeb0/256 (14 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev
0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #5 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 0xd0000/0x1600 0xd1800/0x1000
0xdc000/0x4000! 0xe0000/0x10000 cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82915GM/PM/GMS Host" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82915PM/GM PCIE" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI FireGL V3200" rev 0x80
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
bge0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5751M" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1
(0x4101): irq 11, address 00:01:6c:e9:50:d0 brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1:
BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0
ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub4 at usb4
uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd3
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
cbb0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Ricoh 5C476 CardBus" rev 0x8d: irq 11
ath0 at pci4 dev 2 function 0 "Atheros AR5212 (IBM MiniPCI)" rev 0x01:
irq 11 ath0: AR5213 5.9 phy 4.3 rf5112 3.6, WOR2W, address
00:14:a4:5c:7f:a5 cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 5 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0xb0
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
auich0 at pci0 dev 30 function 2 "Intel 82801FB AC97" rev 0x03: irq 11,
ICH6 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x41445374 (Analog Devices AD1981B)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
"Intel 82801FB Modem" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 30 function 3 not configured
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801FBM LPC" rev 0x03: PM
disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801FBM SATA" rev
0x03: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to
compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <HTS721010G9AT00>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 95396MB, 195371568 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, DVD-RAM UJ-822S, 1.61> SCSI0
5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801FB SMBus" rev 0x03: irq 11
iic0 at ichiic0
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc/4: polled
aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask efed netmask efed ttymask ffef
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
=== end dmesg ===

=== begin /etc/X11/xorg.conf ===
# $Id: xorg.conf,v 1.1 2006/02/10 12:37:54 root Exp root $

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mscorefonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "thinkpad"
##      Option      "XkbLayout" "se"
##      Option      "XkbOptions" "ctrl:ctrl_aa,eurosign:5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
##      Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelOff"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DDCMode"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MonitorLayout"           # [<str>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedFB"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CRT2HSync"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "CRT2VRefresh"            # [<str>]
        #Option     "CRT2Position"            # [<str>]
        #Option     "MetaModes"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "MergedDPI"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "MergedXinerama"          # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedNonRectangular"    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedMouseRestriction"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"         # [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"        # <freq>
        #Option     "ColorTiling"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"      # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"    # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"        # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"   # <i>
        #Option     "TunerType"               # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"   # <str>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"   # <str>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"           # [<str>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicClocks"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BIOSHotkeys"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ReverseDDC"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"             # <str>
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
EndSection

# $Log: xorg.conf,v $
# Revision 1.1  2006/02/10 12:37:54  root
# Initial revision
#


=== end /etc/X11/xorg.conf ===

ciao,

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