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, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800
>> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor?
>
> I believe that I have previously posted this, for eac of the four
> operating systems, or, at least, for the two Debian ones.
>
> I am currently in the Debian 7 installation.
>
> Using a gnome classic session (as the nearest equivalent to, but, not
> as good as, gnome 2), from the Applications menu,
> System Tools -> Preferences -> Monitor Settings
> shows
> "The following monitor is detected"
>
> Using the <About> button in hat dialogue box, shows it to be using
> LXRandR 0.1.2
>
>
In the Debian 6 installation, using gnome 2, the menu path is
System menu -> Preferences -> Monitors
and that dialogue box shows a button
<Detect Monitors>
(the Debian 7 installation equivalent dialogue box does not have that
button - the Debian 7 installation appears to perform the monitors
detection, automatically)
selecting that button produces no change - only the "Unknown" monitor
is indicated, being the screen on the laptop computer.
That dialogue box in the Debian 6 installation, does not include an
<About> button, so the applicable utility and its version, cannot be
determined from the dialogue box.
Synaptic did not show a randr (either xrandr or lxrandr) package as
being installed, and as a Synaptic seatch for xrandr did not include
xrandr, I have just installed lxrandr.
So now, in the
System menu -> Preferences
menu, I have two distinct options relating to monitors;
Monitors
and now, also,
Monitor Settings
The Monitor Settings dialogue box shows it to be
LXRandR 0.1.1
And still, the external monitor is not detected in Debian 6.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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