laptop display to a projector
Dazed_75
lthielster at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 16:52:35 MST 2007
I gave a presentation this afternoon but was unable to get the gnome GUI to
display at any resolution I tried (1024x768, 800x600, 1280x800). Actually,
1280x800 did display at first but poorly. I was using my HP dv6275us laptop
running Ubuntu 6.10. This machine has an Nvidia 7400 card (128mb on board)
and the linux restricted drivers installed (not the nvidia binary). During
boot up most text screens and the splash screen would display. In most
cases the gnome desktop displayed like a hash of bars and boxes with nothing
readable.
Afterward I came home and plugged a reasonably nice monitor into the vga
port and got similar results.
lspci shows:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 01d8
(rev a1)
lshw shows
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory
Controller Hub
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci at 00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI
Express Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci at 00:01.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: nVidia Corporation
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci at 01:00.0
version: a1
size: 256MB
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list
resources: iomemory:dd000000-ddffffff
iomemory:c0000000-cfffffff iomemory:
dc000000-dcffffff irq:11
I tried lsmod but didn't know what might be meaningful
Anyone have any good ideas. I am giving another presentation tonight. My
current thought are to port the presentation to Microsoft Office and use
Windows to try driving the projector (yuck).
--
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
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