On Thursday 11 September 2003 19:48, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> but the hotkey switching still isn't likely to work. NVIDIA's binary
> Linux drivers probably work better in this regards, since there is
> a kernel module there.
I can live without hotkeying. My Problem is the never working CRT in X. Maybe
I have a problem in understanding the XF86Config:
I define my LCD in a monitor section
I define my CRT in a 2nd monitor section
I define my Chipset in a device section
I define how to use the monitors connected to the device in a screen section
(both monitors in one section? maybe, because they must use same color depth.
On the other hand XFree claims about trying to use the device twice, if I
define two screen sections)
Now to enable them:
The 'man XF86Config' in 'DEVICE SECTION' says:
Screen number
This option is mandatory for cards where a single PCI entity can
drive more than one display (i.e., multiple CRTCs sharing a sin-
gle graphics accelerator and video memory). One Device section
is required for each head, and this parameter determines which
head each of the Device sections applies to. The legal values
of number range from 0 to one less than the total number of
heads per entity. Most drivers require that the primary screen
(0) be present.
Looks good, this seems to be my case.
My first question is:
Has the name 'Screen' in this part something to do with the 'screen section',
or is it simply the same word for two different things?
The last sentence in the man page seems to be true for my driver. "Screen 1"
results in:
"Device(s) detected, but none matches those in the config file."
"No screens found"
The same happenes, if I define 'Screen 0' and 'Screen 1' in the device
section. At this point I get totally lost. Does this mean, the nv driver is
not able to enable the lines to the external VGA port?
Please tell me, where I think wrong.
I played a bit around with:
> Option "CrtcNumber" "0"
> Option "FlatPanel" "0"
and modified the parameters, but I had no luck with it. Is there any
documentation? The man page says nothing about this.
Thanks for help
Wolfgang
>
>
> Mark.
>
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Wolle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Medion MD6100 notebook running SuSE Linux 8.2 XFree 4.3.0 (V
> > 11.0) NVidia GeForce4 388 Go graphic chip.
> >
> > The notebook has an external VGA port. I can switch internal / external /
> > both by keyboard (FN-F3). This works on console, but not in X. In X,
> > there is a signal on the VGA port, which causes my monitor to stay "on",
> > but it is black all the time. The function key works in X. It switches
> > the LCD display off, when I select 'external'.
> >
> > Can I have my external VGA port working in X as well?
> >
> > regards
> > Wolfgang
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