Re: Problem with external monitor
On 31/10/2014, Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/30/2014 03:13 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
>> 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)
>> "
>>
>> "
>
> Oh, rats! I had mixed up your situation and one that I saw on a forum.
> Yeah, there's no chance I can match that hardware setup. I'm guessing
> that later kernels are going to support that video hardware just fine.
>
> I will still do some noodling around this weekend to see if I can come
> up with a bright idea -- or even a dumb one. But I'm afraid I'm not
> going to be of much use to you.
>
> I'm sorry.
>
> Jape
>
Hello.
If you can help me, well and good; if you can't help me, thank you,
anyway, for your interest.
--
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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