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I run here a laptop whose display is defect. As display I use a tft-screen Philips 170B4, which allows 1280x1024. The installation is slitaz 4.0.
Unfortunately lxrandr automatically set up a resolution of only 1024 x 768. The graphic card is a
VGA compatible controller : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter.
I want to ask how to change the resolution.
Regards,
Michael
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Hi Michael,
Please try these tricks with xrandr: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/arandr-multi-screen-tool#post-11671
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@Aleksej
sorry, it does not work yet. Apparently slitaz does not recognize my tft-screen. How do you use xrandr or another program to check how the tft-screen is recognized?
Regards,
Michael (and bravissimo for ultraquick reaction!)
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Personally me, if I connect external monitor to my netbook, then I can see it in the LXRandr and can control it via LXRandR and via tricks described above.
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Here this does not happen. The display of my laptop does not function, it is dark as night. In case I plugin this tft-monitor with a vga-plug it displays a screen 1024x728.
But my /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty, nothing is shown there at all.
With xrandr I get this output:
[c]root@slitaz:/etc/X11# xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 0.0*
800x600 0.0
640x480 0.0[/c]
It does not mention the second screen/monitor. Can you please show a detail of your xorg.conf-file?
Regards,
Michael
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My xrandr output:
[c]Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
LVDS1 connected 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 195mm x 113mm
1024x600 60.0*+
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)[/c]
So I have [c]LVDS1[/c] and [c]VGA1[/c]. But you have only [c]default[/c] (?)
By the way, I have empty [c]/etc/X11/xorg.conf[/c]:
[c]# You can put here your own Xorg configurations. This config file is read
# before all files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and will NOT be erased by any
# updates.[/c]
Using of xorg.conf is deprecated way to configure Xes. Now all settings are in the [c]/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/[/c] folder.
Here is my [c]50-Monitor.conf[/c] (nothing special):
[c]Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection[/c]
Here is my [c]60-Device.conf[/c]:
[c]Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "AccelMethod" # [<str>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FallbackDebug" # [<bool>]
#Option "Tiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "LinearFramebuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "Shadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "SwapbuffersWait" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMC" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvPreferOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "DebugFlushBatches" # [<bool>]
#Option "DebugFlushCaches" # [<bool>]
#Option "DebugWait" # [<bool>]
#Option "HotPlug" # [<bool>]
#Option "RelaxedFencing" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection[/c]
Here is my [c]70-Screen.conf[/c]:
[c]Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection[/c]
So, you can see that these files are chunks from the old xorg.conf file. Actually I don't know how to help you. Maybe it video driver issue. Please, post me your [c]/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf[/c]
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Here we go:
[c]Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection[/c]
As you see it ,,realizes" only the orginal dysfunctional Display of the laptop itself, not the second monitor. My intention is:
to use this laptop with this second tft-monitor, but set the resolution of this monitor to 1280x1024. I am here in Turkey and to repair the display of this old laptop is not realistic. I have to go on with it, therefore a second screen/monitor.
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No no no! Device is not Display. Device is your video card to that you attach your monitor.
vesa in fallback very simple video driver. I think you need to setup correct video driver first. Search forum, I can't help, my intel driver works from the box and I have no experience with video drivers debugging.
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Thanks again, Aleksej
I have a SIS video card. The out of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf
is here, what we already know: it does not recognize the second monitor! ;-)
[c]Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection[/c]
Ok, I will further search the forum then.
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Sorry, I can't find my cable to connect my external TV/monitor to netbook.
Maybe I'll see interesting changes in the config files…
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I could not find anywhere a cable, but I connected an external monitor to my netbook in my office.
My small report in the attachments.
Files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d stay unchanged (in the Monitor.conf I see one monitor, etc.)
In the txt you can find output of the [c]xrandr[/c] and [c]xrandr --verbose[/c] commands.
How are you getting along with the installation of the sis driver?
[attachment=16724,670]
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Thanks again a lot, Aleksej,
the machine is in our workshop. I will check that tomorrow and report here.
Regards,
Michael
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Thanks a lot, Aleksej!
Buthere my situation is like this - the second monitor works, but is not shown by xrandr!
tux@slitaz:~$ xrandr --verbose
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 (0x108) normal (normal) 0mm x 0mm
Identifier: 0x107
Timestamp: 19821
Subpixel: no subpixels
Clones:
CRTC: 0
CRTCs: 0
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
1024x768 (0x108) 0.0MHz *current
h: width 1024 start 0 end 0 total 1024 skew 0 clock 0.0KHz
v: height 768 start 0 end 0 total 768 clock 0.0Hz
800x600 (0x109) 0.0MHz
h: width 800 start 0 end 0 total 800 skew 0 clock 0.0KHz
v: height 600 start 0 end 0 total 600 clock 0.0Hz
640x480 (0x10a) 0.0MHz
h: width 640 start 0 end 0 total 640 skew 0 clock 0.0KHz
v: height 480 start 0 end 0 total 480 clock 0.0Hz
Opening lxrandr it simply shows the standard monitor (which runs, but is defect), but not the second monitor that displays. Hmmh... may be one first has to add the right details of this second monitor somewhere in /etc/X11?
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for reporting. I think, you first should install right video driver (sis). All other settings X will do itself (I wonder).
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This I already tried:
as root ,,tazx" and then I choosed SIS. Some action of downloading it, but apparently the video driver was not correctly built into the installation. I will repeat it and have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log about what happened.
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Well, I see a ,,sis_agp" module but nothing else. Apparently my video card driver in use is vesa. Does a proprietary SIS driver exist for Slitaz? I did not find such a thing.
Regards,
Michael
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Remove xorg-xf86-video-vesa after installing xorg-xf86-video-sis, then restart the computer.
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Ok, Sir,
that I will do tomorrow immediately! I do not have the machine at hand right now.
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Ok, I installed xorg-xf86-video-sis - the situation remains the same, though. The second monitor is not visible with xrandr --verbose.
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Not simple but my little tips
Primary problem screen on lcd turn off vert refresh is wrong try to fix change on xorg.conf the line
HorizSync 28-72
VertRefresh 43-60
default compatibility from pdf tecnical data on page 4
http://elektrotanya.com/philips_170b4_170s4_170p4.pdf/download.html
edit your xorg.conf from this guideline
http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php
or another tread to find sis information
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Dual_Monitors
my excuse respects to slitaz for other forum linked, but not find any alternative.
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Hi Michael,
And you removed xorg-xf86-video-vesa? And restarted the computer?
And no changes in the [c]xrandr[/c] output? Again [c]maximum 1024x768[/c]?
And see you changes in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf? Again [c]Driver "vesa"[/c]?
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Yeah, note the bit about having to remove vesa. With my sis card xorg defaults to vesa unless it's removed. With no vesa, xorg forces itself to use the sis driver. Hence the other 2/3 of my instructions you ignored.
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@Aleksej,
yes, I have removed vesa and restarted. No changes. 60-Device.conf is an empty file.
tux@slitaz:~$ lsmod | grep sis
sis_agp 2997 1
agpgart 18221 1 sis_agp
@Trixar_za
As you see vesa is out, sis is in. Situation remains the same. My Turkish friends here say that they could work with this present situation so I question whether it makes much sense to outwear you patience much longer?
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It's an xorg driver not a linux module so lsmod will not list it. If there is no vesa driver, it's using the sis one. How can you tell? Try something that changes the resolution like using ZSNES or SCUMMVM. Does it now work perfectly where before it didn't work properly before? That's because it's using the sis driver.
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@Trixar_za
Thanks again for the tip. It did not change anything. I give up now. This machine is in a workshop, the guys here say they can work with 1024x768 and give compliments to Slitaz for speed and clarity of instructions. Thanks to all contributors, at least the quick responses you gave were impressing the people here! ;-)
Old, partially defect hardware is old. That is all.
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