Bug#490573: Solved in principle ([xserver-xorg-video-intel] No video into projector)

[David <david.maillists@gmail.com>]

Hello again,

Well, it worked last time I tried it, at least in this situation:

1) The projector's jack was plugged into my computer before booting the latter.
2) The KDE4 desktop effects (composition) were disabled.

After booting the computer and the x-server was initialized, both the computer's screen and the video projector were showing the same video. Although the screen of my laptop is wide, the dimensions had been adjusted to match the ones of the projector, by means of vertical black stripes at both sides of the laptop's screen (which persisted after unplugging the projector, I had to reboot to get the full screen).

As I mentioned on my previous email, I am now using Archlinux in my laptop. The kernel is 2.6.29-ARCH, the versions of the xorg utils are:

$ pacman -Qs xorg
local/xorg-apps 7.4-2
    Various X.Org applications
local/xorg-font-utils 7.4-2
    X.Org font utilities
local/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)
    X.org 100dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)
    X.org 75dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-2
    X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.2-3
    X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-4
    X.org misc fonts
local/xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-3 (xorg)
    X.Org X11 resource utilities
local/xorg-server 1.6.1.901-1 (xorg)
    X.Org X servers
local/xorg-server-utils 7.4-6 (xorg)
    X.Org utilities required by xorg-server
local/xorg-twm 1.0.4-3 (xorg)
    Tab Window Manager for the X Window System
local/xorg-utils 7.4-4 (xorg)
    Collection of client utilities used to query the X server
local/xorg-xauth 1.0.3-1
    X.Org authorization settings program
local/xorg-xinit 1.1.1-1 (xorg)
    X.Org initialisation program
local/xorg-xkb-utils 7.4-2
    X.org keyboard utilities
 
the version of xf86-video-intel is 2.7.1-1, the version of hal is 0.5.12git20090421.4fc367-2, and I have no xorg.conf

Hope this helps,

David