Re: Laptop + VGA + X
Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote:
> Hi.
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> The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes
> white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop
> (not always with success).
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> Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not work
> when X is active. (It works very fine with framebuffer, though.)
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> How to enable Xorg to use a VGA monitor plugged to a laptop?
I use a command like this:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto
> Thanks.
> Hudson Lacerda
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> hudson@musix:tmp$ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2047 x 2047
> LVDS-1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 303mm x 190mm
> 1280x800 59.91*+
> VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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> Debian 8.2
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> X.Org X Server 1.16.4
> Release Date: 2014-12-20
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian
> Current Operating System: Linux musix 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian
> 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1 (2015-12-14) i686
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae
> root=UUID=05...fb1 ro lang=pt_BR vga=789 quiet
> Build Date: 11 February 2015 01:14:26AM
> xorg-server 2:1.16.4-1 (http://www.debian.org/support)
> Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
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> xrandr program version 1.4.2
> Server reports RandR version 1.4
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