[ltp] External video on T61

[Chris Penn]

if you do install the Nvidia drivers from source, remember, each time
you update your kernel, you will need to reinstall the nvidia driver
most likely....so its probably better to just keep the copy of the
driver that you used in your docs or something....

The stupid thing is, the nvidia drivers that ubuntu uses are the
nvidia drivers from the website, it just that the driver is not
packaged with nvidia-settings.  There is probably a decent reason for
this overall, but I sometimes wish there were able to make it work
with their .deb release of the driver.

Chris..

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Martin Aumueller <aumuell@reserv.at> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Micha wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 16:55:27 -0700
> [...]
>>
>> The only option that worked for me at the time was to set the external
>> screen to 640x480 and disable the internal screen using nvidia settings.
>> Don't save to xorg.conf or you will have trouble later on.
>
> nvidia-settings allows for lots of different options on my internal 1400x1050
> LCD with the following line in the "Device" section for my nvidia card:
>
> Option          "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck,NoVertRefreshCheck,NoHorizSyncCheck,AllowNon60HzDDFPModes,NoEdidMaxPClkCheck"
>
> I didn't bother to find which of this options is sufficient, but I think that
> perhaps NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck might already do the trick.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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