[ltp] X60s: Projector Issues (again!)

[Aaron Mulder]

Does the ServerLayout section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf have 'Option
    "Clone" "on"' set?  That should get you to the point where
restarting X works (e.g. logging out and back in if you're at runlevel
5).

There are different options then based on whether you're using the
open source driver or the binary driver.  For example, the radeon
driver has 'Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"' to enable Fn-F7.

Thanks,
    Aaron

On 7/16/06, Atul Chitnis <mail@atulchitnis.net> wrote:
> I specifically bought a Thinkpad X60s because, among other things, it
> natively uses a 1024x768 resolution - the resolution native to most data
> projectors these days.
>
> From that perspective, I have had no problems. It is a relief not having
> to reconfigure the machine every time to downgrade the resolution to match
> a projector, or fiddle with stuff to get videos and other things going -
> issues I had with my previous T30.
>
> But yesterday, I ran into an unexpected issue when I was giving a talk at
> (of all the places in the world) Microsoft.
>
> I started off the way you'd expect - I had my notebook booted and ready
> with the presentation, and as soon as I was introduced, walked up to the
> stage, plugged the projector into the VGA port, hit Fn-F7 (as I have for
> the past decade)... and spend the next 7 minutes having to deal with
> comments about Linux not being ready for the desktop, as I struggled to
> get the display out on the big screen, which the notebook refused to do.
>
> I tried the usual trick - drop out of graphical mode, going to run-level
> 3, then restarting X. No go. I tried init 1 and back to 3 (or 5), still no
> go. Nothing I did could induce the notebook to talk to projector via the
> VGA port.
>
> Finally, much to my embarrassment, I reached for the last resort - I cold
> booted. This certainly fixed the issue - the display came up on the
> projector. But only on the projector - no display on my LCD (which meant
> that I couldn't see my slides without turning around), and I was not even
> able to hit Fn-F7 to switch *only* to LCD for a quick, off-projector edit.
>
> My question:
>
> How do I get the Thinkpad X60s to talk to the VGA port if the projector
> was not attached during coldboot time? And how do I get X to display on
> both the LCD and the projector/VGA port simultaneously, and get Fn-F7 to
> work as advertised (which it certainly does under Windows)?
>
> My config is
>
> Fedora Core 5
> X Window System Version 7.0.0 (x.org)
> Thinkpad X60s
> 2 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD
> Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
>
> TIA!
>
> Atul
>
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