On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, alan wrote:
I have an HP zv5200. To get the video to work with my TV, I have to connect
the cables before I turn on the laptop. (Otherwise it does not like to
figure out which of the three outputs are connected.) Then, when it is
booting, I have to hit the key combination to get the bios to switch to the
other video source. If I have it on both the laptop and the tv out, it does
not work in X. If I have it directed to only the output, it works with X.
(I believe it is trying to set the video mode to something higher than the TV
will handle.)
Note that I am using the closed source nVIDIA driver for X, not the open
source one. It takes a bit of patching/hackery to get it to build. (The
patch and instructions are available on nVIDIA's Linux forum.)
Or use the nvidia RPMs at rpm.livna.org. No patching or building needed.
Since I don't know what kind of equiptment you are using, I don't know if
this will help or not.
Hopefully it does...
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
