[PLUG] External monitor remains black

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sun Nov 28 20:57:29 UTC 2010


On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:13:01 -0800
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

>On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, John Jason Jordan
><johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> At this point I'm wondering if it's a bug in the nouveau driver.

>Can you summarize what the problem was with the nvidia driver.

I want as much screen real estate as possible for my presentation. The
projector will project 1400x1050 and can accept from my computer up to
1600x1200. Therefore, I want my laptop to do 1400x1050 or higher, in a
4:3 ratio. The nVidia driver offers me only 1680x1050, 1280x1050, or
1280x960, and lower resolutions. Thus, with the nVidia driver I can
project 1680x1050, which will be distorted to the audience, or I can
project 1280x960, which will not be distorted to the audience, but
gives me less screen real estate than the projector is capable of.

The nouveau driver gives me options of 1680x1050 or 1400x1050, and
lesser resolutions. By setting my laptop to 1400x1050 I can project an
undistorted 1400x1050 to the audience. My laptop will be slightly
distorted, but I am looking at it right now and it is tolerable. After
the presentation I can set my laptop back to 1680x1050.

Actually, the nVidia driver is slightly faster than the nouveau driver
so, after the presentation I will go back to it. 



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