From: Joe <j...@jretrading.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:31:37 +0000 > Not quite, but it Just Works on my netbook, Ubuntu Netbook Remix about > 10-ish. > > Try a Knoppix live CD: if it works with anything, that will do it, and > it's pretty likely that anything Knoppix uses is available to Debian.
Will keep those in mind. Thanks. From: Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:18:13 +0000 > Does Lenny with backports count as contemporary Debian? Encouraging information. Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary Debian. In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation introduced in X is not quite perfect; yet. > If so, then I can run > an external monitor with my netbook (an Acer Aspire One) on contemporary > Debian. If not, sorry, no. Will guess that you have tried later systems and found problems large enough to deter back to Lenny. The problems are solvable. From: deloptes <delop...@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:00:31 +0100 > For some monitors and setups ... like TV out you need to create a custom > xorg.conf. There are tons of howtos and infos out there on how to do it. > ... > i.e. for intel put into /boot/grub/menu.lst video=i915:modeset=1 > > this helps X discover the outputs automatically. I'm missing some elementary concepts. Do you assume just one monitor works from startup to shutdown? Are the possibilities of both monitors showing one display concurrently or of switching monitors while the system is running, on the agenda? I'll guess that these cases require multiple X server processes; one for each screen Certainly it must be within the scope of X but I've never tackled it. Anyone know of a howto or info for this? The observed switch from external to internal displays on this ThinkPad seems weird. X is overriding my BIOS setting. > Mostprobably you experience clash between fb and normal driver I have an idea of a fb as here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framebuffer And I have an idea of the driver as here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver You mean that the device driver software is not appropriate to the video hardware? Or something more? Thanks to everyone for the replies, ... Peter E. -- New telephone 1 360 639 0202. Old telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Work "http://carnot.yi.org/";. "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary";. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057208.42197.29462@cantor.invalid
