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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:14:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9r5jxe3yz.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)

Laptop:   dell E6510
Gentoo:   ~amd64
Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M

I am unable to drive the VGA output.  Symptoms include

* Executing "xrandr" does not mention LVDS or VGA
  (and using --output VGA gives a warning that VGA doesn't exist)

* Pushing Fn-F8 produces a "p" (the keycap of f8 shows in blue a picture
  of a laptop and a monitor) instead of showing the screen on the other
  display.

The xorg.conf file generated by nvidia-xconfig (below)  is fairly simple.
I just added the module section at the end.

Any help would be appreciated.

allan

================================================================

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Thu Apr 22 20:35:23 PDT 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
    # Load         "dri"
    load         "glx"
EndSection



             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-23 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 23:14 Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2010-06-24 18:02 ` [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output Matthias Krebs
2010-06-24 18:14   ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-06-24 20:53     ` [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output (Solved) Allan Gottlieb

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