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longinoa
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 Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:52 am Post subject: Sony Vaio PCG-V505EX CRT [SOLVED] |
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I have a couple quick questions.
Does anyone know how to activate the crt port on the sony vaio's After initial bootup?
Once i am in X is there a way to switch to using the crt port, more than likely this will require a change in screen's (in the XF86Config scope of screen)?
btw: long time reader first post 
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Insanity5902
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Welcome to the forums
I am just taking a shot in the dark on this one, but this is how i would set one up.
To set up the external vga port on your laptop you will ahve to add a few lines to your XF86Config or xorg.conf , depending on which one you are using.
You will basically need to do 4 things. Add a line to your server layout, add another monitor , another device, and another screen.
What you will need to do is in your server layout, tell it you have a second monitor with something like this
| Code: | Screen 0 "Screen0"
Screen 1 "Screen1" |
Then you will need to set-up a second monitor, it will be similiar to the one you have in there just make it for the monitor you will be addiding to your system. Be sure to give it a different identifier
After this you will need to set up your second device. This one wil be the same as your other one, except you will want to add two lines to this one (and myabe the same 2 lines with different strings.)
| Code: | Identifier "Card1"
BusID "PCI:0:2:1" |
In this one one, there are a few things. If you already had one device named card0, that would be your laptop and card1 would be yoru external display. The BusID tells where to send the signal this is dependent on your system as to what this value would be. Your main display in this example woud be PCI:0:2:0. You can find you BusID by running lspci, it will give you something like this.
| Code: | insanity m2imirtg # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
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You can see my last line is lapped VGA compatible controller and then it tells you what card you ahve. the numbers before that is your BusID, so mine woudl be PCI:3:0:0 for the main display, and my second port would be PCI:3:0:1.
The last thing you would have to do is set-up another section using the same name you gave it in your Server Layout, using the device you just created and the monitor you just created.
You could also add one more option in your device this just tells it to use the screen, I don't know if this is nescarry but I have seen it be used there.
Sadly this will get the second port to work, but I don't know how to swictch the screen while runninng X, the only way I would know how to do it is to startx using the command to use screen1 or screen0. By deafult it takes the first screen. so in this example woudl use screen 0, but the command | Code: | | startx -- -screen 1 |
would use the second monitor we just set up.
Hope this helps
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longinoa
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A couple of clarifactions on my problem.
The CRT port is only activated if i have the cord plugged in when i bootup. If it is, then the console displays fine. If it isnt i cant even get the console to output. Anyone know how to turn on the crt port?
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longinoa
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This was solved using firegl. Now there is still the issue of it working in tty mode, it wolnt unless it was plugged in.
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