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vga output to tv
Posted by laptop1 on Tue 26 May 2009 at 09:40
I have a Dell Latitude C600/C500. It has a vga output, presumably to have a larger screen. When I connect a vga from my laptop to either a monitor or a sony bravia HD readyt tv nothing happens.When I type: #lspci -vvx the reply is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Latitude C600 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step I can't find the settings to identify the presance of another screen, can anyone help me? Thanks
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Posted by Anonymous (221.161.xx.xx) on Tue 26 May 2009 at 12:30
Make sure you are using the ait driver (which will load r128 automatically). First, have you tried using xrandr? That's the first way to go. Second, I understand that there may be some problems with starting the external display, and Fn-F7 should be pressed to check. Finally, take a look at the following page to get a bunch of Xorg configuration settings for the card:
http://rserve.biz/gentoo/kilrathi/xorg.conf
Best of luck,
Daeng Bo
http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com
http://rserve.biz/gentoo/kilrathi/xorg.conf
Best of luck,
Daeng Bo
http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com
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Posted by Anonymous (82.24.xx.xx) on Tue 26 May 2009 at 23:35
Hi. I think you need to install http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=atitvout
This assumes you are using the "r128" xorg driver as the above poster kindly mentioned.
hope this helps
sno
This assumes you are using the "r128" xorg driver as the above poster kindly mentioned.
hope this helps
sno
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I have not been able to get xrandr but I have got x11-xserver-utils. Also i have atitvout. however after checking via #ls the driver i am using is intel_agp. I don't know how to change the driver to r128.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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