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

[Jonathan Gittos]

Try fiddling with the boot display options in your bios - mine is set to
boot from the DVI first

Regards

Jonathan

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:23 -0700, Osho GG wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:30:50 +0100, Jonathan Gittos 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
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > --
> > Jonathan Gittos
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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Jonathan Gittos