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

[Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>]

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? You can read
>> through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run "xrandr" (when
>> both screens are connected) and see what it detects. If "xrandr" is able
>> to detect both outputs it should just be a matter of configuration, if
>> not then that would suggest a problem with the driver.
>>
>
> On Debian 6;
>
> "
> :~# xrandr
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080
> default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1920x1080       0.0*
> "
>
>


And on Debian 7;

"
:~# xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080
default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1920x1080       0.0*
"

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"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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