Re: external flatscreen with Thinkpad T42

Bakul Shah <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I would poke around the IBM website looking for "maintenance" manuals.

Yeah, I already have this but wondered if anyone had actually
done a repair.

> >From my experience on some other machines, I would suggest taking
> pictures of the hardware on every stage of the disassembly with the
> digital camera if you have one.

Thanks for the reminder!

> > > Temporarily I have attached an external Samsung flatscreen
> > > display to the T42.  It has a resolution of 1680x1050 but it
> > > comes up in 1024x768 mode and everything is horizontally
> > > stretched.  I would like to use it in a higher res mode and
> > > more importantly to avoid the stretching.  Does any one have
> > > a xorg.conf that I can use as a starting point for an
> > > external display with higher res?  If it matters, I am
> > > running -current and xorg-6.9.0 Thanks!
> > As far as i know, the T42 external connector does only 1280x1024 maximum.
> That varies by model. Mine (2373-Q1U) does 1600x1200 on the built-in LCD
> and external connector.

(As Peter Jeremy had also suggested) I had already looked at
Xorg.0.log prior to my initial email and I know mine
(2378-DUU) does higher res than 1024x768 for external
displays.  I think what is happening is Xorg thinks both
displays are on at the same time and chooses a common
resolution.  It does detect two 'CRTs' and also what each can
do.  Specifying 'screen 1' results in no display whatsoever.
So I am onto something:-)

Thanks for all the suggestions.

-- bakul
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