External VGA support on my laptop

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:18:42PM -0400, John Fruhwirth 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?

Maybe you are not root.

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