Thanks again for the contrib, & relating to Volker's parallel thread..
Steve Holdoway wrote:
excerpt from the XF86Config-4 / xorg.conf. As yet untested.
Steve
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Projector" VendorName "Panasonic" ModelName "PT-AE500E" HorizSync 30 - 70 VertRefresh 50 - 87 Option "dpms" EndSection
I tried putting this into Debian's XF86Config-4, to no effect. But you've prompted me to analyse (post?) Ubuntu's Xorg config that works the projector well, & try transferring the requisite section(s) to Debian. If that works I'll review the Synaptics touchpad info posted earlier by Craig & Steve for a solution too (later) - more Ubuntu functionality, out of the box.
And yes, starting the projector before the computer allows the two to negotiate the working VGA port frequency. I think it gets set thus for all video (ie inseperable heads), but the lappie LCDs just ignore what they cannot do & stick to their spec frequency. Computer boot first often as not requires a restart to get the projector going (or at least a restart X, which worked fine for Steve's non-Toshi).
Now to read that (F)article! ;-)
Cheers,
Rik
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