Dear Brian, Thanks for helping me out.
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:04:50PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 20:33:33 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > Here's what I have: > > > > TV1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > 0mm x 0mm > > 848x480 30.0 + > > 640x480 30.0 + > > 1024x768 30.0 > > 800x600 30.0* 60.3 > > This tells you > * the connection to the TV has been detected > * there are two preferred modes (shown by the '+') > * the current mode is 800x600 (shown by the '*') Fair. This makes sense. > > xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 --crtc 1 > > '--crtc 1' isn't really required. Well, with, or without, nothing really appears on the TV. > > xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 [snip] > Forget about this for the moment. I should have been clearer and > explained I use xvattr to send video to the TV with vlc. It is of no > consequence if nothing appears on the TV screen in the first place). The > command for you to use to see a portion of your computer screen on the > TV (because the TV is detected) is > > xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 (or --mode 848x480 etc) Well, this didn't really send the computer screen to the TV. I'll proceed to the debugging information. > It might be useful for us to see the outputs of 'xrandr --verbose' and > 'lspci' for the video card. Here are the graphics card details from lspci -vvv: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 022f Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 45 Region 0: Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at eff8 [size=8] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0300c Data: 4191 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+ Kernel driver in use: i915 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c) Subsystem: Dell Device 022f Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+ The relevant portion of xrandr --verbose is: TV1 connected 640x480+0+0 (0x3c8) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm Identifier: 0x44 Timestamp: 148418469 Subpixel: unknown Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0 Brightness: 1.0 Clones: CRTC: 0 CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: bottom margin: 37 (0x00000025) range: (0,100) right margin: 46 (0x0000002e) range: (0,100) top margin: 36 (0x00000024) range: (0,100) left margin: 54 (0x00000036) range: (0,100) mode: NTSC-M supported: NTSC-M NTSC-443 NTSC-J PAL-M PAL-N PAL 480p@59.94Hz 480p@60Hz 576p 720p@60Hz 720p@59.94Hz 720p@50Hz 1080i@50Hz 1080i@60Hz 1080i@59.94H 848x480 (0x3c7) 14.5MHz +preferred h: width 848 start 849 end 912 total 944 skew 0 clock 15.4KHz v: height 480 start 481 end 512 total 513 clock 30.0Hz 640x480 (0x3c8) 11.3MHz *current +preferred h: width 640 start 641 end 704 total 736 skew 0 clock 15.4KHz v: height 480 start 481 end 512 total 513 clock 30.0Hz 1024x768 (0x3c9) 26.9MHz h: width 1024 start 1025 end 1088 total 1120 skew 0 clock 24.0KHz v: height 768 start 769 end 800 total 801 clock 30.0Hz 800x600 (0x3ca) 17.0MHz h: width 800 start 801 end 864 total 896 skew 0 clock 19.0KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 632 total 633 clock 30.0Hz 800x600 (0x47) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz Please let me know if you have other suggestions. Again, I'll keep trying on my own. Thanks! Kumar -- > 1. is qmail as secure as they say? Depends on what they were saying, but most likely yes. -- Seen on debian-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110802010352.ga10...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in