Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:57:12 -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: <20070127185712.7A56B5B32@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:33:01 EST." <1169911981.7662.19.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net>
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> I would poke around the IBM website looking for "maintenance" manuals. Yeah, I already have this but wondered if anyone had actually done a repair. > >From my experience on some other machines, I would suggest taking > pictures of the hardware on every stage of the disassembly with the > digital camera if you have one. Thanks for the reminder! > > > Temporarily I have attached an external Samsung flatscreen > > > display to the T42. It has a resolution of 1680x1050 but it > > > comes up in 1024x768 mode and everything is horizontally > > > stretched. I would like to use it in a higher res mode and > > > more importantly to avoid the stretching. Does any one have > > > a xorg.conf that I can use as a starting point for an > > > external display with higher res? If it matters, I am > > > running -current and xorg-6.9.0 Thanks! > > As far as i know, the T42 external connector does only 1280x1024 maximum. > That varies by model. Mine (2373-Q1U) does 1600x1200 on the built-in LCD > and external connector. (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:-) Thanks for all the suggestions. -- bakul
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