[ltp] DVI out on T42p - how to make it work?

[Osho GG]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:30:50 +0100, Jonathan Gittos <jonathan@gittos.com> wrote:
> I've used 4.3.99 (which came with SuSE 9.1) as well as Xorg 6.80 (which
> I'm now running). Seemed to work fine with both but the important bit is
> the TMDS / LVDS switch in the config. Without it the DVI screen would be
> completely ignored.
> 
> I find fn+f7 works fine as long as i boot / resume past the bios splash
> screen with the machine outside the docking station and then plug it in
> as linux is booting(!).
> 
> The other problem is that the x-server gets hopelessly confused if i
> hibernate the machine at work (with the DVI) and then resume at home
> without it. Usually have to shut down, edit the config file to change
> the order of the screens (now LVDS, TMDS) or comment out the monitor
> layout section completely.
> 
> Here's the file (called xorg.conf) but will work fine if you rename it
> to xf86config as well. Both the radeon and fglrx drivers seemed to work
> fine - swapped over by changeing the diriver entry in the config from
> "radeon" to "fglrx". Never tried 3d / dri and I've never got dual-
> screen / xinerama working.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Thanks Jonathan.

Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, LVDS"

worked for me. But,

Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, TMDS"

does not work!!!

Osho

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> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 09:50 -0700, Osho GG wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:16:29 +0100, Jonathan Gittos wrote:
> > > Singlehead works fine but make sure that you boot / resume the machine
> > > out of the docking station and then plug it in once you've passed the
> > > boot splash screen.
> > >
> > > Dualhead works fine with the analog vga cable - all of us have struggled
> > > with DVI out and Dualhead.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you need the XFree86config (I'm susing SuSE 9.1 as well)
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Jonathan. Please do send me your XFree86config. Which version
> > of X.org/XFree86 are you running and which driver are you running (ATI
> > or open source)?
> >
> > Right now I am interested in just a singlehead. I should make it work
> > with DVI first before trying out dualhead or xinerama or anything
> > else.
> >
> > Just to make sure that by singlehead, you mean X that will display on
> > only one monitor - which is either Thinkpad LCD or DVI monitor, right?
> > How do you switch between the two? Does Fn+F7 work ? I have found that
> > Fn+F7 works only for VGA output for me.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Osho
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> Jonathan Gittos
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