On 12/09/2010 02:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Gordon<kgordon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Both 1.5's with both Startechs, with both monitors: If the monitor is >> already turned on, and already plugged into the USB port on the XO 1.5 >> before cold boot, the external monitor becomes active and looks fantastice, >> every time. This works on both the Sugar and Gnome boots. System doesnt >> seem to care if anyting else has been plugged into the USB port between >> boots, still comes up first time every time. > > Great. Besides looking fantastic, does it work well? ;-) > >> Both 1.0's with both Startechs with both monitors: If the monitor is >> already turned on, and already plugged into the USB port on the XO 1.0 >> before cold boot, the external monitor becomes active and looks fantastic, >> most the time. This is the case on both the Sugar and Gnome boots. The >> most the time comes from : If I have plugged a different USB device into >> the port between boots, the XO 1.0 stalls at the 'third dot around the >> circle' during boot and flashes the external monitor. > > That is very strange. Can you elaborate on the "a different usb > device"? Can you give us exact steps to repro? > >> I have had absolutely no success in plugging any adapter with any monitor >> into any of the XO's after XO is up. LSUSB recognizes the adapter, but >> doesn't activate the external monitor. > > Correct. We cannot reconfigure while running. You can in some cases > where the 2 video ports are on the same card and you have recent > drivers. But not inserting a new video device as we do in this case. > >> I have had no success in unplugging the adapter while the external monitor >> is active. The internal XO display does not come back active, and >> replugging the external adapter does not bring the external monitor back >> active. Oops, now need to Power off again. > > Please try this again -- the external monitor will take a few seconds > but in my testing it does come back. > >> Another little note, when the external becomes active when booting the Sugar >> desktop, the internal display goes blank, once the External goes active. >> When booting on the Gnome side, the internal display continues to display a >> sort of console output, but it remains static. > > Minor oddity I guess. > > thanks for the testing! > > > > m
Hi Kevin, thanks for testing. You might as well like to log your findings here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/10.1.3/Testing#USB2VGA_Adapter_usage Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
