NVidia on Compaq presario and video output

[François Patte]

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Lonni J Friedman a écrit :

>> nvidia card gives priority to "CRT", the external display, so, if you
>> > plug an external screen/beamer, the display is on this one by default.
> 
> That was the case for the nvidia X driver, however never for the
> hardware.  And its no longer accurate for the driver.  For many
> notebooks, the internal DFP is given priority.

Nvidia readme:

<cite>

All mobile NVIDIA chips support TwinView. TwinView on a laptop can be
configured in the same way as on a desktop machine (please refer to
Appendix G); note that in a TwinView configuration using the laptop's
internal flat panel and an external CRT, the CRT is the primary display
device (specify its HorizSync and VertRefresh in the Monitor section of
your X config file) and the flat panel is the secondary display device
(specify its HorizSync andVertRefresh through the SecondMonitorHorizSync
and SecondMonitorVertRefreshoptions).

</cite>

> 
> I'm not sure where you got this from, but its not true.

Maybe no longer true, if your laptop is new (mine is one year old) and
has a dvi connector. We can read in Nvidia readme:

<cite>

NOTE: anything attached to a 15 pin VGA connector is regarded by the
driver as a CRT. "DFP" should only be used to refer to digital flat
panels connected via a DVI port.

</cite>

Using Atrpms last dynamic compiled version of nvidia driver.
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