Jarrett Lu wrote: > 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. >
John, Just to let you know that my M5 works well with the projector after making the change in BIOS. Thanks Jarrett
