John Martin wrote: > >> But the default setting >> on my laptop could not detect the projector at all. Click on Detect >> Displays in the NVidia X Server Setting GUI tool has no effect. >> Glenn.Faden at sun.com gave me an xorg.conf file (attached) which >> runs well on his Toshiba M9. When I used the conf file, plus a serious >> of button clicking in the NVidia X Server Setting tool, my loptop >> recognized the projector. But the top 20% of projected screen is >> twisted, flickering, and very unstable. >> >> I appreciate any advise from this community in what I should try >> to make it work. > There are two levels of device detection. If the driver sees a normal > current > load on the RGB lines on the M5 VGA port, the "Detect Displays" > button will > put up a display rectangle. If EDID can be read, it will identify the > display > and set up the correct video modes. > > However, this behavior depends upon setting the SBIOS correctly. > In you SBIOS (keep hitting the Esc key right after the screen resets > on a reboot > until it tells you to hit the F1 key) on page 2 (PgDn key) the > Display -> Power On Display must be set to "LCD+Analog RGB". > The default is "Auto-Selected" which will not work well with > nvidia-settings > hot plug detection. (My M5 has SBIOS 3.60). If your SBIOS was > still at the default, change it and get rid of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and > try again.
Thanks for the reply. I changed the default bios setting from Auto-Selected to LCD+Analog RGB. I also noticed that my bios is at version 1.70, which seems old. I temporarily lost access to a projector. I will give it a try when I reached my travel destination. Thanks for the advise. Jarrett > >
