I am trying to use the system-config-display utility to setup a laptop for dual-heal.
I want my LCD to be 1024x768 and external VGA to be 1366x768. I presume the LCD will go virtual or something to match the 1366x768 which is fine.
When I am setting up the dual head and click OK nothing happens???
On the console I have something about secondVideoCardOptionMenu.get_menu().get_active().get_data("NAME") attribute error.
There is no second video card in a laptop????
How do setup the VGA port to be different than the LCD?
Thanks,
jerry
On 11/22/05, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I, too, would love to know. I have an hp ze4630us laptop that is less than useful due to this very problem. The laptop is dual boot witn WinXP and CentOS4. When I connect the external port to a projector and boot CentOS4, the image displays fine, but as soon as X starts the projector loses sync. With WinXP running, the projector works just fine.
It's a real bummer to have to make a Linux presetation with WinXP driving the show!
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:48:51PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
I have had no problems whatsoever with my Toshiba Tecra A2, when using a projetor. X works just fine.
Never had a problem either with an old Compaq Presario notebook I used to have around until a couple months ago.
Then again, I never got past 1024x768 with either of those.
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Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
My experience is that when I plug in the projector while X is already running it loses sync..basically a black screen...
But when I start X while connected to the projector it displays fine (1024x768).. This is a HP pavilion ze4900 (with i810 video card)...
Peter
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:01:42AM +0100, Peter van Eck wrote:
it can get worst than that. In a few cases (mostly Compaq), if you don't have the projector connected before you turn the notebook on, you don't even get the text boot sequence to show. Using the function keys on the keyboard you get the feeling that the SVGA port is being activated (the LCD screen blanks etc etc), but you still get no image.
So, as a rule of thumb, I always try to connect the projector before powering the notebook.
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On 11/24/05, Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org wrote:
Way out: 1. Connect the projector 2. Switch to console with Alt+Ctl+F1 (or F2...) 3. Toggle to projector setting (or shared setting) As you are in text the projector will beam the command line. 4. Start another X session by command startx -- :1
This works for me almost always subject to X resolution being within power of projector. By experience mostly 1024x768 works.
HTH -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux
On 11/23/05, Sudev Barar sbarar@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, I'll try that next time I'm near a projector.
Oops, there must be more to it. When I try 'startx -- :1 on tty2, I get a log of messages from X, none of them errors, but no X screen on tty8 (or ???). This is now a bit <OT>, so if you want to respond in a new thread, that's OK.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
On 11/24/05, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
startx -- :1 Watch spaces before and after -- You can also try startx -- :2 You do not have to switch to tty8 because as soon as X starts the console switches automatically.
HTH
-- Sudev Barar Learning Linux
On 11/23/05, Sudev Barar sbarar@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. I couldn't get your suggestion to work, but a little RTFM in the man pages came up with
'xinit ./second -- :1.0'. This does the job. ~/second is
#!/bin/sh xsetroot -solid black & ooffice sample.xsi
My system (at the moment I'm booted from Ubuntu) doesn't like the unadorned ':1'. I'll have to verify when I boot CentOS.
Now I just need to find a projector to try this out.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
On 11/24/05, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
Funny. I am running Ubuntu 5.04 on my Compaq PresarioM2000 right now and startx works perfectly. What is the memory and swap setting? I am having a machine with 512MB RAM and 2GB swap.
IAC you found a possible answer!! -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux
On 11/23/05, Sudev Barar sbarar@gmail.com wrote:
Ubuntu 5.10 with wdm/icewm. 512MB and 1G swap. Top indicates that swap is never touched.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
On 11/23/05, Peter van Eck peter@vaneckonline.net wrote:
I tried that as well (using the recommended resolution for the projector) with the laptop p0lugged in before booting. As soon as X starts, sync drops. It's been a while back, so I'll have to try it again with more recent software updates.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
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