topic title: no laptop external display
Posts: 71
zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#1
trying to get external display(projector) to work on compaq 2108US. hardware is known good using XP. In Antix 13.2 AR&R is not showing when selected(GUI never apppears) tried reinstall of AR&R- same result.

AR&R used to come up and would"see" the projector but no output no mateer how I configured it.

Tried MX14 and it"sees" the projector but when set to mirror displays -nothing when set to use only projector-more nothing.

tried point linux with same result as MX14.

I really don't want to put XP back on this laptop--help please!
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#2
what is the projector and how does it connect (vga, dvi, hdmi, usb?)

Do you have a hotkey that has perhaps turned the external display port on the pc OFF. My netbook does this. On my netbook, I have to plug in the device, and then do a hotkey combo to activate the port.
Posts: 71
zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#3
dolphin_oracle wrote:what is the projector and how does it connect (vga, dvi, hdmi, usb?)

Do you have a hotkey that has perhaps turned the external display port on the pc OFF. My netbook does this. On my netbook, I have to plug in the device, and then do a hotkey combo to activate the port.
it's a viewsonic 1500 uses vga. I have fiddled with the f5 which supposedly toggles the display to no avail.


weird that the system shows the display available but won't output to it????
Posts: 850
fatmac
Joined: 26 Jul 2012
#4
Tried MX14 and it"sees" the projector but when set to mirror displays -nothing when set to use only projector-more nothing.
Did you log out & back in for the settings to be picked up?
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zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#5
fatmac wrote:
Tried MX14 and it"sees" the projector but when set to mirror displays -nothing when set to use only projector-more nothing.
Did you log out & back in for the settings to be picked up?
nope, duh....I will try that
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zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#6
tried log out then back in -nope.

in any distro I get projector display during boot sequence then nothing in desktop. i think it's adriver issue. works in xp -ugh
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zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#7
ok. I can get S video out of the laptop in Antix 13.2 but it' 800x600 ugly output. Still trying to get regular vga out.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#8
with the device plugged in, what does the output of

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$ xrandr

give?
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zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#9
xrandr shows vga-0 as active and list a bunch of available resolutions. i tried commanding output from vga-0 via xrandr from terminal and the command executed but no output. The laptop uses the I320M chipset which seems to have always had this problem with linux. I tried the terminal commands as one user stated he got this to work in ubuntu. So far a searches reveal a bunch of frutrated folks that have had the same issue without resolution. maybe if I give the command in terminal then log out/login? I'm at a loss at this point.