On 08/01/12 9:21 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > just wondering which driver I need to be looking at / for that deals > with the laptop's external video connector. the video hardware driver > > Background - went to deliver a presentation last week and found that > there was no way to get any video output to the external D-15 > connector (hooked up to a video projector). > Eventually I re-booted to windoze 7 and all worked just fine - major > embarrassment after telling everyone how great Linux was. > > The laptop has a nvidia GTX 460M card and I use the el-repo > kmod-nvidia-295.59-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 > and > nvidia-x11-drv-295.59-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 > > I do have compiz-0.8.2-24.el6.x86_64 and > compiz-gnome-0.8.2-24.el6.x86_64 running but as these should not be > dealing directly with the hardware am not thinking they should matter. > > Not sure where to start trouble shooting - I tried lots of different > screen resolutions via the System > Preferences > Display but no joy > getting any signal out to the external connector. This laptop does > have an hdmi socket but I was not using that, I thought the good old > fashioned D-15 video plug should "just work" (tm). > > The function key <Fn> <F8> did toggle the laptop screen off and on and > varied the resolution of the laptop display but never any output on > the external connector. those laptop graphics chips treat the VGA connector like a 2nd monitor, I have no idea how you configure linux for multimonitor, but I know its not nearly as easy as MS Windows where it just works. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast