Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

[Hakan BAYINDIR <hakan@bayindir.org>]

Michael Yang wrote:
> Hi guys:
> 
> I have debian lenny 2.6.24 and xfce4 on my laptop(DELL D630) and I'm
> trying to connecting the projector to my laptop, but it didn't work.
> The video card on my laptop is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS
> 135M [10de:042b] (rev a1)
> 
> When I connected the projector, I pressed Fn+F8 just same as I do on
> Windows, but nothing happened.
> 
> It seems that it could not detect the projector (or monitor, I also
> tried to connecting to a separate monitor), the output of the command is
> always as below (I put it at the end of this post to save space here):
> 
> I just wonder if anyone has the experience on this? How can I get this
> to work?
> Do I need to install any additional drivers or sth?  I also appended my
> xorg.conf for your check.
> Thanks so much!
> 
> michael@debian: ~$ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
> default connected 1280x800+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1280x800       50.0*
>    1024x768       51.0 
>    800x600        52.0 
>    800x512        53.0 
>    720x450        54.0 
>    700x525        55.0 
>    640x512        56.0 
>    640x480        57.0     58.0 
>    640x400        59.0 
>    640x384        60.0 
>    512x384        61.0 
>    400x300        62.0 
>    320x240        63.0
> 
> xorg.conf:
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Thu Apr 10
> 18:52:28 PDT 2008
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "Layout0"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     Option         "AIGLX" "true"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
>     RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
>     FontPath        "/home/michael/.fonts"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>     Load           "dbe"
>     Load           "extmod"
>     Load           "type1"
>     Load           "freetype"
>     Load           "glx"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
>     # generated from default
>     Identifier     "Mouse0"
>     Driver         "mouse"
>     Option         "Protocol" "auto"
>     Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
>     # generated from default
>     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>     Driver         "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     VendorName     "Unknown"
>     ModelName      "Unknown"
>     HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
>     VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
>     Option         "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
> ## for compiz
>     Identifier     "Device0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>         Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
>  Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Device0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>     Option         "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
>     Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
>     Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
>     Option         "TripleBuffer" "true"
> ## for projector
>     Option         "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
>     Option         "Clone" "true"
>     Option         "DevicePresence" "true"
>     Option         "CheckLid" "false"
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Depth       24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Extensions"
>     Option         "Composite" "true"
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
> 

Hi,

If you have installed nvidia-settings, you can run it, re-detect displays and
enable the screen without editing anything. Also, if you are using a fairly new
nVidia driver, fn+f8 should work too. At least it works on my HP DV6100.

Cheers,

Hakan

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