Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-08-23 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Philippe LeCavalier < supp...@plecavalier.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Philippe LeCavalier < > supp...@plecavalier.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:46 PM, David G. Miller wrote: >> >>> Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: >>> >>

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-08-07 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Philippe LeCavalier < supp...@plecavalier.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:46 PM, David G. Miller wrote: > >> Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: >> >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier >> plecavalier.com> wrote: >>

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-26 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:46 PM, David G. Miller wrote: > Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier > plecavalier.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone. > ... > > A yes. The infamous Intel 945 chipset...I waded through the whole > slug

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread David G . Miller
Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone. ... > A yes. The infamous Intel 945 chipset...I waded through the whole sluggish feel issues of the >2048 res issue. Then an update appeared to have ad

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/24/2012 06:41 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 07/24/2012 04:20 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: >>> Yeah. It doesn't appear to be a hardware thing. xrandr --auto --output >>> VGA1 --same-as LVDS1 does the same as merely connectin

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/24/2012 04:20 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > > Yeah. It doesn't appear to be a hardware thing. xrandr --auto --output > > VGA1 --same-as LVDS1 does the same as merely connecting the monitor > itself. > > LCD flickers and comes back

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/24/2012 04:20 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > Yeah. It doesn't appear to be a hardware thing. xrandr --auto --output > VGA1 --same-as LVDS1 does the same as merely connecting the monitor itself. > LCD flickers and comes back and the monitor does nothing. To me, the fact > that the LCD flick

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/24/2012 02:33 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > >> On 07/24/2012 01:24 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > > video chipset: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/24/2012 02:33 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 07/24/2012 01:24 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > video chipset: > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, > 943/940GML Express Integrated G

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/24/2012 01:24 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > >> > video chipset: > >> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, > >> > 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) > >> > 00:02.1 Display co

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/24/2012 01:24 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: >> > video chipset: >> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, >> > 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) >> > 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, >> > 943/940GML

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier < supp...@plecavalier.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > First post...Just switched to this project after years of using another > distro. It's been a few months now and I'm on my third laptop; it's been a > rough year ;) > > Whenever possible, I li

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-19 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > On 07/19/2012 09:38 AM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Haney > > > >> You likely missed that I mentioned I can Fn+F5 to get single output to >> the monitor. So yes, it does work. >> -- >> >> Doh! I didn'

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Haney
On 07/19/2012 09:38 AM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Haney You likely missed that I mentioned I can Fn+F5 to get single output to the monitor. So yes, it does work. -- Doh! I didn't miss that part, just misread it. My bad. -- Mark Haney Software Dev

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-19 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > On 07/19/2012 09:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > >> Hi Everyone. >> > > >> Sorry about rambling on so much, just trying to give as many details as >> possible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in >> advance. >> >> -

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Haney
On 07/19/2012 09:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: Hi Everyone. Sorry about rambling on so much, just trying to give as many details as possible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. -- For the sake of argument, have you verified that the external port on

F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-19 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
Hi Everyone. First post...Just switched to this project after years of using another distro. It's been a few months now and I'm on my third laptop; it's been a rough year ;) Whenever possible, I like to connect to an external monitor. This worked very well in F16 on my Dell w/nvidia. Then the inv