Re: Compaq Presario 2100 laptop, xorg no output on external VGA (projector), running Etch.

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Søren Christensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>   
>> Søren Christensen wrote:
>>     
>>> I've upgraded to Etch and Xorg on my laptop.
>>>
>>> How do I configure xorg to output on external VGA. There is no X on
>>> projector, only tty, that is, I can follow booting on the projector, but
>>> when gdm starts output dissappears.
>>>
>>> How can I configure the s-video output? I would like to show video from
>>> DVD and from mpeg-streams.
>>>
>>>       
> I still haven't found an answer. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg does not
> find the external VGA, even when I turn on the projector when running
> dpkg-reconfigure. I compared the conf-files from XFree86 and xorg, but
> there where no differences. But with Sarge and Xfree86 the external VGA
> mirroed the built in LCD -- now with Etch and xorg there is no output on
> the external VGA. In both Sarge and Etch I was using gdm.
>
> Does gdm control the output to the external VGA?
>   
I don't know. But you might try taking gdm out of the picture
temporarily ("sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop") and running X via "startx"
just to see if it has any effect (which I doubt, but it's worth trying).

-- 
Kent