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Fri, 26 May 2006
External VGA on the laptop better now - 15:32
When I got this laptop (Dell X300) back in 2004, the way to get the external
VGA display to work under Linux was with a i810switch program, then a while
later I had to use the i855crt program to get the external vga to
display. These worked (though it meant remembering to use a command when I
used a projector or similar for presentations) however I was unable to display
XV (overlaid video) or similar output over this (and there were some mouse
problems with HW or SW Cursor or something)
I had heard for a while that X.Org had fixed the driver enough to enable
continuous output on both from the X Server without these hacks, and the added
bonus was there was now a way to get the overlay video reliably. (it could
work sometimes with the hacks on some computers). Today I tracked down this
page on a thinkpad wiki
discussing
Intel 855 GM graphics set up under Linux on some laptops. The xorg.conf
changes and xvattr command all work fine and I now have better external video
with XV available if wanted. Yay.
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