Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
On 2005-10-07 12:25:54 +0200, Philippe Hupé wrote:
I made the modifications suggested by Peter. But nothing happens. At
boot, my external monitor keeps white.
Does anybody have an idea?
On my PowerBook G4 (PowerBook3,2) with ATI Technologies Inc Rage
Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02), I use m3mirror and the attached
kernel patch (by Julien BLACHE).
This has the advantage to work with the console too.
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--- arch/ppc/syslib/prom_init.c.old 2005-03-02 08:38:33.0 +0100
+++ arch/ppc/syslib/prom_init.c 2005-04-16 22:51:20.0 +0200
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
break;
}
- for (j=0; jprom_num_displays; j++) {
+ for (j=0; j1; j++) {
path = prom_display_paths[j];
node = prom_display_nodes[j];
prom_print(opening display );
Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
Peter Henseler a crit: It seems this mail didn't make it out of my gateway. - Forwarded message from Peter Henseler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Peter Henseler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philippe Hup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:12:47 +0200 Subject: Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector Dear Phil, On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:46:06AM +0200, Philippe Hup wrote: [..snip..] Thanks a lot for your mail. I have installed the xorg server and made the modification you mentionned. The xserver works fine on my laptop but I am still not abble to get the output on an external screen: when I start my computer which is plugged to the external screen I only get a grey screen the the external monitor. Do have I something to do after booting so that it works? Thank you for any suggestion. I forgot to mention, that I disabled the option dri in the xorg.conf. What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log tell? For comparison you find my xorg.conf attached. The external display just works for the x-console. It does not work for the text console. Otherwise it might be that there is something broken in your kernel version. I never tried it with kernel-2.6.12. But it works fine for me with kernel-2.6.12-rc4 and kernel-2.6.13.2. Good luck! Peter # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" # Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 9600" Driver "radeon" Screen 0 Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 9600 Card1" Driver "radeon" Screen 1 Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "External Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Radeon 9600" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x854" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "External Screen" Device "ATI Radeon 9600 Card1" Monitor "External Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "1280x854" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" # Screen "External Screen" RightOf "Default Screen" Screen "External Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" # Option "Xinerama" "True" EndSection #Section "DRI" # Mode 0666 #EndSection - End forwarded message - Thanks Peter, it works with your xorg.conf file.
Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
Peter Henseler a crit: Hi Phil, On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:57:38PM +0200, Philippe Hup wrote: I have a powerbook G4 and I would like to know how to get the display on an external monitor or with a videoprojector. Do you have any idea? I am using a kernel 2.6.12 with xfree server. My computer is the following: processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666MHz revision: 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips: 1658.88 machine : PowerBook5,6 motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 001b L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 2048MB pmac-generation : NewWorld On my Powerbook G4 15" (PowerBook5,2) I was able to mirror my internal display on an external screen. Therefore I had to install the Debian Package xserver-xorg instead of using the xfree86 server. Afterwards I had to make the following modifications of the file /etx/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 9600" Driver "radeon" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon 9600 Card1" Driver "radeon" Screen 1 Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "External Monitor" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Radeon 9600" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x854" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "External Screen" Device "ATI Radeon 9600 Card1" Monitor "External Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "1280x854" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" Screen "External Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection So far I have not been able to get the option xinerama to work, but the clone mode works perfectly. You just have to restart the x-server. HTH, Peter I made the modifications suggested by Peter. But nothing happens. At boot, my external monitor keeps white. Does anybody have an idea? thanks for your help Phil Here is more information about my powerbook G4: kernel 2.6.12 x server: xorg 6.8.2 processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666MHz revision : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips : 1658.88 machine : PowerBook5,6 motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 001b L2 cache : 512K unified memory : 2048MB pmac-generation : NewWorld :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 0001:10:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 0001:10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:24:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80)
Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
It seems this mail didn't make it out of my gateway. - Forwarded message from Peter Henseler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Peter Henseler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philippe Hupé [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:12:47 +0200 Subject: Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector Dear Phil, On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:46:06AM +0200, Philippe Hupé wrote: [..snip..] Thanks a lot for your mail. I have installed the xorg server and made the modification you mentionned. The xserver works fine on my laptop but I am still not abble to get the output on an external screen: when I start my computer which is plugged to the external screen I only get a grey screen the the external monitor. Do have I something to do after booting so that it works? Thank you for any suggestion. I forgot to mention, that I disabled the option dri in the xorg.conf. What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log tell? For comparison you find my xorg.conf attached. The external display just works for the x-console. It does not work for the text console. Otherwise it might be that there is something broken in your kernel version. I never tried it with kernel-2.6.12. But it works fine for me with kernel-2.6.12-rc4 and kernel-2.6.13.2. Good luck! Peter # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-4 at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc # Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel macintosh Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 9600 Driver radeon Screen 0 Option AGPFastWrite True EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 9600 Card1 Driver radeon Screen 1 Option AGPFastWrite True EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier External Monitor Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Radeon 9600 Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x854 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier External Screen Device ATI Radeon 9600 Card1 Monitor External Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 1280x854 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen # Screen External Screen RightOf Default Screen Screen External Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse # Option Xinerama
Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
Hi Phil, On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:57:38PM +0200, Philippe Hupé wrote: I have a powerbook G4 and I would like to know how to get the display on an external monitor or with a videoprojector. Do you have any idea? I am using a kernel 2.6.12 with xfree server. My computer is the following: processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666MHz revision: 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips: 1658.88 machine : PowerBook5,6 motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15) pmac flags : 001b L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 2048MB pmac-generation : NewWorld On my Powerbook G4 15 (PowerBook5,2) I was able to mirror my internal display on an external screen. Therefore I had to install the Debian Package xserver-xorg instead of using the xfree86 server. Afterwards I had to make the following modifications of the file /etx/X11/xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 9600 Driver radeon Screen 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 9600 Card1 Driver radeon Screen 1 Option AGPFastWrite True EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier External Monitor Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Radeon 9600 Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x854 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier External Screen Device ATI Radeon 9600 Card1 Monitor External Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 1280x854 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen Screen External Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection So far I have not been able to get the option xinerama to work, but the clone mode works perfectly. You just have to restart the x-server. HTH, Peter pgp0sNXS8EHRr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
Hi, I have a powerbook G4 and I would like to know how to get the display on an external monitor or with a videoprojector. Do you have any idea? Thanks in advance. Phil. I am using a kernel 2.6.12 with xfree server. My computer is the following: processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666MHz revision: 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips: 1658.88 machine : PowerBook5,6 motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15) pmac flags : 001b L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 2048MB pmac-generation : NewWorld :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 0001:10:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 0001:10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:24:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector
Le lun 03 oct 2005 21:57:38 GMT Philippe Hupé [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I have a powerbook G4 and I would like to know how to get the display on an external monitor or with a videoprojector. Do you have any idea? http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00671.html -- Djoume SALVETTI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
