Re: External Monitor on Trident CyberBladeXP (HP Pavilion n5415)

Thanks Alan,

    I have checked my bios version and it is up to date, but the keys 
are the least of my concern). However I now have other questions and 
comments,

    - Should I not be able to get the display to the external monitor? 
Why does the Option "Display" "CRT" turn off the LCD, but not enable the 
CRT?

    - When rebooting to Linux from WindowsXP the X screen is like a 
negative I can see everything, but the color is messed up.  Conversely, 
when rebooting to WindowsXP from Linux (X), Windows will freeze at the 
first non-text screen. (The XP logo with progress monitor). A hard 
reboot will fix either of these problems. I can live with these quirks, 
just thought it may be useful.

    - The screen is shifted about 3-4 pixels to the right under X, I 
tired xvidtune, no luck. Again this is a trivial issue.

    - Is it worth reporting all of these issues, or should I shut up? ;)

    If anyone with a similar system has any of this working please feel 
free to jump in ;-). This and lack of AMD PowerNow support are the only 
things stopping this from being a great a Linux laptop (and powernow 
support is being actively developed), all other hardware is support in 
the 2.4 series kernel.

Cheers,
Julian.

PS: I am willing to send any information I can get from the laptop, so 
if you need anything just ask!
   

Alan Hourihane wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:57:10 -0500, Julian L. Hunter wrote:
>  
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>>Hello,
>>
>>   I have asked part of this question before and tried all the 
>>feedback, but still no luck. All I want to do is have the display a) on 
>>the LCD or b) on the external monitor on my desk. Seems simple enough 
>>right? Well after many weeks of frustration and despair, I am still at 
>>square one. I have tried the <fn>-<f5> combination (which is what works 
>>under Windows), no luck. So then I tried the Display "Option" "CRT", and 
>>this causes the LCD not to show the picture but does not display it on 
>>the CRT (so no diaply at all). I followed this by "BIOS" another option 
>>I found somewhere on the web, still no luck. So I have a few questions,
>>
>>   1) Is this possible with the current Trident driver (I took the one 
>>from http://xfree86.org/~alanh on Dec 1, 2002)? If so, how would I go 
>>about this?
>>
>>   2) The key codes do not show up anywhere (the <fn>-<f5> ones), how 
>>do these normally work on other laptops,are they intercepted by the BIOS 
>>and then processed or shoudl they generate key codes?
>>
>>   3) Is there a list of TODO's for the trident driver?
>>
>>   4) Finally, Has anyone on thsi list gotten this working?
>>
>>   If I ama asking these questions in the wrong place please let me know.
>>    
>>
>
>It's very machine specific and very much to do with the BIOS and the
>handling of those special Fn keys. Try and see if your BIOS is up to date,
>that sometimes fixes problems. Other than that, I know it works on some
>laptops but not all - again for the reason of machine specifics aren't
>handled properly.
>
>Alan.
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