Martin Bright wrote:
--On 25 October 2005 22:34 -0400 Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:Hi folks -- after much straining I have a working debian/sid install on my new (recycled) laptop. a thinkpad 600E with neomagic nm220 video chipset. I have a working xorg.conf which unfortunately does not support the external vga.This won't really help you. But on my TP600E, with XFree86, when I plugged it into a data projector it worked perfectly first time. I did have to press whichever Fn-key it is to enable the external monitor.
I have found that Xorg sometimes blocks the BIOS calls to switch theVGA output on. Matt, you could try the following quick-and-dirty trick to circumvent Xorg: Switch to a tty console with e.g. <CRTL> + <ALT> + <F1> and see if you can then activate the external output via the BIOS key combination (which is <Fn> + <F8> on a lot of notebooks). If that works you can try to restart Xorg without switching from the console ("startx" or "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart", etc. depending on your installation). I have found that Xorg then tends to honor the state of the VGA output and normally manages to negotiate a suitable display mode with an attached beamer or monitor. (I have a different notebook and graphics card, though, your mileage may vary.)
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Florian