Re: Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one(solved, sort of)

2005-06-07 Thread Ubuntu
Gerardo, This is no Gnome bug, its just a misconfiguration issue with your X server driver settings. I had the same issue and ran across your thread. I didn't even know the lcd was continuously on until I checked after reading your thread. I only wanted the 1600x1200 resolution I get in windows.

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one (solved, sort of)

2005-02-22 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
On 02/21/05 17:57:38, Jason Martens wrote: Gerardo Ballabio wrote: | (WW) RADEON(0): Invalid Monitor type specified for 1st port | (WW) RADEON(0): Invalid Monitor type specified for 2nd port | (WW) RADEON(0): No valid monitor specified, force to CRT on 1st port | | Actually, while your configuratio

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-21 Thread James
Barry, Christopher wrote: ...so based on IP address, certain 'scripts' can be executed? Is this a 'selectable at boot' option, or is it automagic? Does this tie into ifplugd somehow, as was mentioned by others earlier in the list? If you look at the web page, you can get a version with the lates

RE: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-21 Thread Barry, Christopher
PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:11 PM > To: Barry, Christopher > Cc: Jason Martens; Gerardo Ballabio; Debian Laptop > Subject: Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one > > Barry, Christopher wrote: > > >I setup two different boot block

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-21 Thread James
Barry, Christopher wrote: I setup two different boot blocks in grub, and passed in two different cmdlines; one for 'Laptop' and one for 'Desktop'. These cmdlines were parsed by a small startup script I wrote to copy over the laptop or desktop x configuration file. On boot, I simply select laptop or

RE: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-21 Thread Barry, Christopher
I setup two different boot blocks in grub, and passed in two different cmdlines; one for 'Laptop' and one for 'Desktop'. These cmdlines were parsed by a small startup script I wrote to copy over the laptop or desktop x configuration file. On boot, I simply select laptop or desktop mode in grub bo

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-21 Thread Jason Martens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerardo Ballabio wrote: | On 02/18/05 16:10:47, Jason Martens wrote: | |> Hmm, I am using gnome, and I have not observed that behaviour. My |> screen stays off even after I log in. I have a Mobility Radeon |> 7500 |> in a Dell Latitiude C640. I'm pas

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-21 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
On 02/18/05 16:10:47, Jason Martens wrote: Hmm, I am using gnome, and I have not observed that behaviour. My screen stays off even after I log in. I have a Mobility Radeon 7500 in a Dell Latitiude C640. I'm pasting my X config below. Sorry to bother you again. I've tried your X configuration, th

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-18 Thread Jason Martens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerardo Ballabio wrote: | On 02/17/05 19:35:17, Jason Martens wrote: | |> If you are using a radeon driver, do a man radeon and look for |> "Panel Off". I added that line to my XFree86 config file, and it |> worked beautifully. | | | Thank you very mu

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-18 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
On 02/17/05 19:35:17, Jason Martens wrote: If you are using a radeon driver, do a man radeon and look for "Panel Off". I added that line to my XFree86 config file, and it worked beautifully. Thank you very much. It works while I'm in the GDM login windows (that is an improvement from the previou

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-17 Thread Jason Martens
Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Hi all, I've been given a Dell Latitude C640 laptop as my work PC (it was formerly used by my boss, who ran Windows). When in the office, I plug it into its docking station under my desk and use external LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. I run Sarge, kernel 2.6.8-1-686.

Re: Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-04 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
thank you for your answer, I've read a Xinerama Howto and I understand it's about combining multiple monitors so that each shows a different portion of the screen. Furthermore, if I understand correctly, every monitor is supposed to be attached to a different graphics card. My case is different. I

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-04 Thread Koen Vermeer
Op vr 04-02-2005, om 08:54 schreef Martin Hauser: > if not, there might be a way to tell your X to send the notebook screen > into dpms suspend mode. That would turn the backlight off and send > the screen to suspend which might do the trick. But sadly i have to > admit i have no Idea h

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Hauser
Hello, > >However if I switch to the text console (even if X is running in the > >background), the internal monitor does turn off. Thus I suspect it > >could be a problem of configuring X correctly. I guess that I should > >somehow tell X that I have two distinct monitors, and want to use

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-03 Thread sime
Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Hi all, I've been given a Dell Latitude C640 laptop as my work PC (it was formerly used by my boss, who ran Windows). When in the office, I plug it into its docking station under my desk and use external LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. I run Sarge, kernel 2.6.8-1-686.

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-03 Thread Charles Wyble
Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Hi all, I've been given a Dell Latitude C640 laptop as my work PC (it was formerly used by my boss, who ran Windows). When in the office, I plug it into its docking station under my desk and use external LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. I run Sarge, kernel 2.6.8-1-686.

How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-03 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Hi all, I've been given a Dell Latitude C640 laptop as my work PC (it was formerly used by my boss, who ran Windows). When in the office, I plug it into its docking station under my desk and use external LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. I run Sarge, kernel 2.6.8-1-686. My problem is, when it