External VGA support on my laptop

[Tyler Aviss]

Maybe the path to /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesnt't exist? What about an
alternate path such as /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf (source install?)
or something like that?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:18 PM, John Fruhwirth <johnfruh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> Thanks for offering your help in solving my problem with getting my VGA out
> to work.
>
> Here is what I have for the relavent sections in xorg.conf...
>
> ------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1"
>     Driver        "ati"
>     BusID        "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>      Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
>     Option        "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Default Screen"
>     Device        "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1"
>      Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Modes        "1280x800"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Now, one of the things I learned is that I may have to replace the "ATI"
> driver with a thing called fglrx and that aticonfig does this for me.
> I also seem to have flglrx-control installed (a Control panel for the ATI
> graphics accelerators) but I don't know how to access it.
>  It does not seem to have a GUI and if it does, I can't find it in either
> System-> Admin or Applications.
>
> Yes, I do know that there is a GUI in System>Admin Called Screens & Graphics
> but I don't know if this is the ATI control panel. I don't think it is
> because there is no reference to ATI anywhere in it.
>
> I also tried your suggestion of using aticonfig and got this back...
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> johnfruh at eMachine:~$ aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
>  Uninitialised file found, configuring.
> Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-1
> aticonfig: Writing to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' failed. Bad file descriptor.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Huh? What does Bad file descriptor mean with respect to xorg.conf?  How can
> xorg.conf have a Bad file descriptor?
> So, again, I'm stumped.  What do I do now?
>
> ...John



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