[ltp] External monitor

[Paul Kaplan]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 5:07 am, credito@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a T42 with Debian unstable installed. A while ago I successfully
> configured my thinkpad to use an external monitor/beamer.  I haven't used
> it for a while and after some debian unstable upgrades (My guess is the
> step from xorg 7.0 to 7.1) this feature is broken.
>
> If I boot the thinkpad with external display attached it works fine. But I
> cannot get the display working once X is running and I attach the external
> display. Fn-F7 doesn't do the trick. However I noticed that the monitor
> receives some kind of signal but does not display anything.
>
> Xorg.conf snippet:
>
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility
> 7500]" Driver		"ati"
> 	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
> 	VideoRam	32000
> 	Option		"UseFBDev"		"false"
> 	Option      "SWcursor" "true"
>         Option      "DRIReinit" "true"
>         Option      "AGPMode" "4"
>         Option      "BIOSHotkeys" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
> 	Option		"DPMS"
> 	HorizSync	30-65
> 	VertRefresh	50-75
> EndSection
>
> I played along with the xorg.conf file so I might have broken it. Can
> someone help me ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcel
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You could try a live CD running the same X version and then copy the xorg.c=
onf=20
file to your /etc/X11/ directory.
Paul