[indiana-discuss] Tecra M2 Graphics won't work with an external VGA monitor

[Matt.Ingenthron at Sun.COM]

On 01/09/09 09:58, Russ Lucken wrote:
> Can anyone help on this?  I've tried pretty much everything I can think of to get this to work on an external vga monitor.  I'd really like to stay on OSOL, but can't unless I can get this working!
>   

You'll probably get more help from the desktop-discuss list with this 
question.  You may want to post there.

Generally speaking, in the most recent builds things "just work".  If 
you have an NVidia chipset, you'll need to use the control panel for it 
to detect the external display, then set up the X configuration you 
want.  Some configurations (for instance, multi-monitor), may require 
you to save the xorg.conf to /etc/X11 then log out and back in.

There have been some systems with buggy edid reporting that require 
specific modifications to the xorg.conf.

If you find you cannot do it with the built in desktop control panels 
(either the NVidia or the regular Gnome screen settings), then these may 
help:

http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/entry/xorg_with_nvidia_geforce_go
http://blogs.sun.com/ashu/entry/two_ways_of_connecting_a
http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/xorg_conf_for_toshiba_tecra

Regards,

- Matt

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