nv driver does not support VGA port?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Feb 29 18:01:24 UTC 2008
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 at clueserver.org> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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