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Hi,
I am working with Suse10 on a Dell Latitude D600. Since I upgraded to Suse 10, switching from the TFT screen of my laptop to an external video projector does not work anymore (the switch being classicaly achieved by hitting "Fn" F8 - or F7 on some other laptops). Hitting the Fn-F8 buttons just does not seem to do anything anymore so that I cannot anymore project the display via a video projector. (usually one hit directs the display to the video output, then one more click allows to have the display both on the screen and the video output, and then one more hit to go back to the screen alone).
Any hint on how to solve this? (or check if something is wrong)
First of suse 10 is very buggy im have many problems with it as well. not big things just little annoyances but have u checked ur etc/X11/xorg.conf? see if dual monitor is turned on. If you cant figure it out post your conf file here.
Thanks a lot for the tip here. I installed the latest ATI driver but cannot make the videoprojector output work.
So again to be clear:
- if I plug in a videoprojector on my laptop
- and click on Fn F8 as to get the output to work,
well, nothing happens...
Which option should be there in the xorg.conf for that?
ok first bring up your command prompt and run
"sh ./ati/ati-driver-installer-8.xx.x-i386.run"
After a while it will bring up a gui select the distro specific driver and click the distro and version you use.
After that it will make an rpm from where ever you ran the ati driver installer
install that.. then read README.SUSE at /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SUSE and it will help u from there.
You also have to configure the screen with sax telling it whether you want to clone or use xinerama.
And one more thing are you sure its fn f8? on most computers esp dells its fn f4
HI again,
thanks for all the help; I have installed the driver successfully and all is working EXCEPT my original problem is still there. It is indeed Fn F8, no doubt about this (the button is marked with a CRT/LCD option).
Hmmm well i know that worked for mine i have an ati mobility radeon 9700 and usually i dont have to press the fn key it just automatically pops up. Sorry i couldnt be of more help.
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