On 4 November 2011 04:43, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > A colleague with a laptop that has a PCMCIA slot needed higher resolution > on a larger monitor than was available from the built-in video card screen. > I suggested the VTBook PCMCIA card that uses a Trident chip set and has a > DVI connector as does the monitor my colleague obtained.
<snip> > setpci -s bus:slot.func COMMAND=02 <snip> > I have tried adding this line to various places in /etc/X11/xinit, > /usr/bin/startx, and what seem appropriate places in various /etc/rc... > directories (using the appropriate ln -s from the script in init.d to > SXXfoobar). Thus far, everytime X11 starts, the [disabled] output appears > from lspci -v until I manually run the init.d script that contains > appropriate setpci command (after which the [disabled] output is gone). > > QUESTION: > Where should one place the setpci command to force the use of the setpci > after each login (starting of a particular X11 session)? This is a totally "off the top of my head" suggestion, so please experiment with caution. I would test to see if adding an invocation of the setpci command to the /etc/X11/prefdm file has the desired effect. Alan.
