On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen <pet...@synth.no> wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 >> Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >>> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >>> installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that installation, and the >>> Debian 7 installation also still does not detect the external monitor. >> >> How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? > > I believe that I have previously posted this, for eac of the four > operating systems, or, at least, for the two Debian ones. > > I am currently in the Debian 7 installation. > > Using a gnome classic session (as the nearest equivalent to, but, not > as good as, gnome 2), from the Applications menu, > System Tools -> Preferences -> Monitor Settings > shows > "The following monitor is detected" > > Using the <About> button in hat dialogue box, shows it to be using > LXRandR 0.1.2 > >
In the Debian 6 installation, using gnome 2, the menu path is System menu -> Preferences -> Monitors and that dialogue box shows a button <Detect Monitors> (the Debian 7 installation equivalent dialogue box does not have that button - the Debian 7 installation appears to perform the monitors detection, automatically) selecting that button produces no change - only the "Unknown" monitor is indicated, being the screen on the laptop computer. That dialogue box in the Debian 6 installation, does not include an <About> button, so the applicable utility and its version, cannot be determined from the dialogue box. Synaptic did not show a randr (either xrandr or lxrandr) package as being installed, and as a Synaptic seatch for xrandr did not include xrandr, I have just installed lxrandr. So now, in the System menu -> Preferences menu, I have two distinct options relating to monitors; Monitors and now, also, Monitor Settings The Monitor Settings dialogue box shows it to be LXRandR 0.1.1 And still, the external monitor is not detected in Debian 6. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8pbcbpvo+eseyhzpbew1qsn1tbc+dy3avjkxdadhfd...@mail.gmail.com
