Laptop doesn't show X on Beamer

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, alan wrote:
>
> I have an HP zv5200. To get the video to work with my TV, I have to connect 
> the cables before I turn on the laptop.  (Otherwise it does not like to 
> figure out which of the three outputs are connected.)  Then, when it is 
> booting, I have to hit the key combination to get the bios to switch to the 
> other video source.  If I have it on both the laptop and the tv out, it does 
> not work in X.  If I have it directed to only the output, it works with X. 
> (I believe it is trying to set the video mode to something higher than the TV 
> will handle.)
>
> Note that I am using the closed source nVIDIA driver for X, not the open 
> source one.  It takes a bit of patching/hackery to get it to build.  (The 
> patch and instructions are available on nVIDIA's Linux forum.)

Or use the nvidia RPMs at rpm.livna.org.  No patching or building needed.

>
> Since I don't know what kind of equiptment you are using, I don't know if 
> this will help or not.
>
> Hopefully it does...
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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