Re: Problem with external monitor
On 31/10/2014, Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/30/2014 01:02 PM, Curt wrote:
>> On 2014-10-30, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have just realised the presence, and, extent of the presence, of the
>>> spelling/typographical errors in the last previous message that I
>>> posted about this; above, so am posting it again, hopefully with all
>>> of the errors corrected.
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid your grade can't be modified at this point however
>> grammatically laudable your continued efforts.
>>
>>
> This -- made me smile.
>
> Curt at his succinct and pithy best.
>
> As for you, Bret. I'm going to try to find an extra monitor around here
> this weekend to see if I can find a) your problem, and b) a solution.
> I'll also have to do a little spelunking in the message archive to see
> if I have any chance of roughly duplicating your hardware setup.
>
> I've used multiple monitors in testing before with various graphics
> subsystems and don't remember any drama. I quit only because I'm
> probably better off not seeing one monitor well than not seeing two
> monitors well.
>
> Dangit, old age. For all I know there was *lots* of drama, and I just
> don't remember it!
>
> Jape
>
>
Hello.
I hope that the information below, is helpful.
The problem computer is an Acer v3 772 laptop computer, running Debian
7 .x and LXDE, now with bumblebee installed; the noveau version of
bumblebee, did not work, so I installed the nvidia version of
bumblebee, and that still did not work, and that system has an NVidia
GEForce GT750M graphics accelerator.
It does not detect the external monitor.
The external monitor runs okay with Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, on the same
hardware, regarding which, from a previous message;
"
However, from Ubuntu 14.04.1.LTS, which I have now installed, and got
the external monitor working, and display output directed to only that
monitor, I have
"
bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen
Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06)
>From the Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS lshw output, I get
"
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI
Express x16 Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 06
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:40 ioport:4000(size=4096)
memory:d2000000-d2ffffff ioport:a0000000(size=536870912)
*-display
description: 3D controller
product: GK107M [GeForce GT 750M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:51 memory:d2000000-d2ffffff
memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff
ioport:4000(size=128) memory:b2000000-b207ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:48 memory:d3000000-d33fffff
memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5000(size=64)
"
"
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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