Søren Christensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >> Søren Christensen wrote: >> >>> I've upgraded to Etch and Xorg on my laptop. >>> >>> How do I configure xorg to output on external VGA. There is no X on >>> projector, only tty, that is, I can follow booting on the projector, but >>> when gdm starts output dissappears. >>> >>> How can I configure the s-video output? I would like to show video from >>> DVD and from mpeg-streams. >>> >>> > I still haven't found an answer. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg does not > find the external VGA, even when I turn on the projector when running > dpkg-reconfigure. I compared the conf-files from XFree86 and xorg, but > there where no differences. But with Sarge and Xfree86 the external VGA > mirroed the built in LCD -- now with Etch and xorg there is no output on > the external VGA. In both Sarge and Etch I was using gdm. > > Does gdm control the output to the external VGA? > I don't know. But you might try taking gdm out of the picture temporarily ("sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop") and running X via "startx" just to see if it has any effect (which I doubt, but it's worth trying).
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