Re: Gnome 2.14 display on projector. [on a laptop with ATI Rage graphicscard]

[Søren Christensen <severino@ulvedalen.dk>]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:08:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 22:55:22 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:09:14PM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 19:31 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > 1) For some cards there is a command available to switch LCD and
> > > > >    external video on and off. Using ACPI and a bit of scripting you can
> > > > >    even assign this to special keys.
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone know how to do this with an ATI Rage graphicscard? What
> > > > packet to install? What command to use?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On my laptop's ATI M200 graphics card, I use the fglrx-control GUI to do this.
> > 
> > Where do I find that, aptitude doesn't reveal it, and commandline
> > doesn't give me a hint.
> 
> You need to include "non-free" in your /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g.
> 
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> 
> fglrx-control is currently only in Sid. If you use the "radeon" driver
> then "radeontool" might also be worth a look, but its package
> description sounds somewhat ominous. (Disclaimer: I have no direct
> experience with ATI cards, I just did a quick search through the package
> descriptions.)

Thanks, I did the aptitude search on a machine running Sarge, and my
laptop runs Etch.

/severino