On Friday 29 February 2008, Julius Smith wrote: >Just a quick note to say that the nvidia commercial driver works >great, and [fn] f4 now projects the screen out the VGA port. The main >problem was that it seems to be hard to try different screen >resolutions (in order to fit the full laptop display onto the >projector's display). I was using System / Administration / Display >to change the resolution. After making it smaller as a test >(800x600), I could no longer set it to my normal higher resolution >(1280x800 - the option was simply no longer there in the Display >list), requiring me to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to restore the higher >resolution to the Modes list. Ultimately, 1024x768 gives the best >overall result, although the bottom of the screen is cut off in that >case. 1280x800 has a big strip cut off on the right, and 800x600 >won't sync with the projector at all. - jos > Unforch, the most recent 169.12 release still does not work with post 2.6.24 kernels. Nvidia didn't claim it would though. >On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > >> > I have an HP Pavilion 2000 series laptop, and generally Fedora 8 works >> > very well on it. However, I have discovered that I cannot connect to >> > an external screen projector. As far as I can tell, >> > there is no way to obtain output of any kind to the VGA connector. >> > The driver is `nv', and the graphics hardware is NVIDIA GeForce Go >> > 6150. Apparently I cannot try an nvidia driver because I am running a >> > 32-bit system on a 64-bit AMD processor (the Turion64x2), and there is >> > only a 64-bit AMD version of the driver. >> > >> > Has anyone else encountered this problem? >> >> Actually there is. >> >> Connect the vga cable when the machine is off. After you turn on the >> machine, use the blue function key and F4 (with the picture of a blue >> monitor plug) to toggle to the external monitor. >> >> The 32 bit commercial driver should work fine on the 32 bit version of >> Linux. If you are using Fedora 9 alpha or the xorg from Rawhide, do NOT >> install the commercial driver. It will build. It will install. It will >> not work. Fixing it is double-plug unfun. >> >> The monitor app in the commercial driver is pretty useful. You may still >> need to connect the cables when the machine is off. Seems to be a quirk >> of the nVIDIA chipsets. It does not see it if the device is not >> connected when it initializes the chipset. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <Deek> That reminds me, we'll need to buy a chainsaw for the office. "In case of emergency, break glass"
