Re: Gnome 2.14 display on projector.
On ศ., 2006-05-05 at 10:42 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:16:37 +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote:
> > I have notebook which have configuration below
> > (Linux surachai 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686
> > GNU/Linux) + gnome 2.1
> >
> > I want to present display on projector. I press Fn + F4 but this screen
> > doesn't show on projector. Do you know what I am wrong?
>
> Xorg often overrides the Fn + F4 switching of the BIOS. Depending on
> your video card, one or more of the following might work:
>
> 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.
>
> 2) Sometimes Xorg can be tricked by switching to a tty and using the Fn
> + F4 combination there. Then you have to restart X without switching
> back to the CTRL + ALT + F7 terminal, for example by running
> /etc/init.d/gdm restart
>
> 3) Sometimes it is necessary to write a special xorg.conf for a cloned
> dual display setup and start X with that layout, e.g.
> startx -- -layout Beamer
> (assuming that you called this layout "Beamer" in xorg.conf.)
>
> If you post more info about your video card ("lspci | grep -i vga") it
> is very likely that someone will be able to give you more specific
> advice.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
the output of command lspci | grep -i vga is
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
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