Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 12:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it
>>>> won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source?
>>>> At
>>>> this point that may be your only chance. If only you could do that with
>>>> the drivers...
>>>>
>>>> It might also be that it is (maybe for one of the reasons I listed in
>>>> my previous mail) incompatible with Squeeze. I just don't know, sorry.
>>>
>>> I see the same thing, https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#From_repository
>>> It doesn't appear to be available for sqeeze.
>>>
>>
>> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from
>> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that
>> installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that installation, and the
>> Debian 7 installation also still does not detect the external monitor.
>
> "Check and see if you have the tool 'intel-virtual-output' installed.
> This is included in 'xf86-video-intel' =< v2.99, aprox date released is
> 22/Dec/2014
>
In searching in synaptic, for xf86-video-intel , two results are returned;
xserver-xorg-video-intel - installed
xserver-xorg-video-i740 - not installed
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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