Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:15:26 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> Cc: Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: external flatscreen with Thinkpad T42 Message-ID: <20070225001526.6CA925B58@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:13:33 EST." <1169928813.7662.41.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net>
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> > (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. An update on this. I finally managed to get an external 1680x1050 display work at full res. with a T42. Since my T42 display is dead, I am using just the external one but during my experiments I was able to use it in dual-head mode though no idea how the internal display fares. And I didn't have to play any games with Fn-F7 or keeping the lid closed or anything. Even DRI works fine. Now the only problem is mplayer -vo xv shows a blue screen when I try to play a DVD (but does with with -vo x11). Orig. xorg file plagiarised from http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf Let me know if anyone wants my changes.
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