Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:13:33 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: external flatscreen with Thinkpad T42 Message-ID: <1169928813.7662.41.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20070127185712.7A56B5B32@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20070127185712.7A56B5B32@mail.bitblocks.com>
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On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:57 -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > (As Peter Jeremy had also suggested) I had already looked at > Xorg.0.log prior to my initial email and I know mine > (2378-DUU) does higher res than 1024x768 for external > displays. I think what is happening is Xorg thinks both > displays are on at the same time and chooses a common > resolution. It does detect two 'CRTs' and also what each can > do. Specifying 'screen 1' results in no display whatsoever. > So I am onto something:-) I run SuSE Linux on my T42 (this is work laptop and I am not given much choice). Only way I have found so far to reliably use external monitor (in my case -- projector) is to power it on and keep hitting Fn-F7 until BIOS screen shows up on the projector. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
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