Ti external video

[Aurelio Bay]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Stefan Bruda wrote:

> At 08:28 +0200 on 2002-9-18 Aurelio Bay wrote:
>  >
>  > I connected an external monitor to the TiBook (550MHz, ATY Rage M6).
>  > The image is there but the horizontal is not stable and the image
>  > is barely readable.
>  > I tested several configurations in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>  > YD declares "external video not supported", but maybe somebody
>  > has a good idea on how to control that video output,
>  > which is almost working already.
> 
> I have used data projectors with my (rev III) tibook quite
> successfully and with no change to the XF86Config files whatsoever.
> Depending on the projector, I might need to boot my machine with the
> projector plugged in and running, but that's the only inconvenience I
> discovered--besides, this happend only for (some) projectors, external
> monitors worked for me in mirroring mode no matter when I plug them in
> and/or turn them on.
> 
> The only projector I could not make work (the image _is_ stable, or
> should I say images, I have about five of them showing up
> simultaneously :-) ) is the one in my classroom, but then it is an IBM
> dinosaur which barely works with the provided desktop computer.
> 
> The key to success seems to be a recent benh kernel (I have tested all
> of these with 2.4.20-prel5-ben0), all the other relevant software is
> stock YDL.
> 
> Notice that I have the new tibook, with the Radeon M7, that still is
> to my knowledge not fully supported under Linux.  So I see no reason
> why your older, fully supported model would not work once you upgrade
> the kernel.
> 
> Incidentally, I should mention that my Radeon M7 refuses to work in
> any other resolution than the native one (1280x854), so I cannot
> mirror the whole screen (there is a stripe to the left which is not
> visible on the external monitor/data projector).  But other than this,
> everything is fine.
> 
> Stefan
> 

Thanks Stefan,

I have already tested the 2.4.20-pre5 and pre7.
Same result.
Please note that everything is fine with OS9.2 and OSX.

Cheers
			Aurelio