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On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 17:53 +0000, bad apple wrote: > On 01/02/14 16:43, Kevin Lucas wrote: > > Hi all I had to share this as it's so frustrating its unbelievable... > > > > I have a eee pc which has run many flavours of linux but now after > > replacing CPU fan and adding 1 gig of RAM is pretty good as a portable > > system around the house. > > > > So 2 weeks ago it updates and I put it away and come again to use it (to > > show someone how to set up their new router.. and it boots up with no > > display...? (it skips any bios message) > > > > Well its 6 years old and even though Ive just updated it I am not > > surprised the display has failed. So I think I can use it as a Netflix > > gadget on the telly in the back room as it has Wireless and a reasonable > > graphics chipset, so I plug it in and want to set the screen saver to > > not come on and if its sleeping to wake up on keyboard. Also the GDM set > > to the Telly display so we can login. > > > > In doing this I can only have Separate displays or Mirrored Displays > > but the combinations have one or the other screens rotated not both in > > landscape.. This is ok as the laptop display has died. To finalise the > > settings I look at the Display Brightness and Lock to set up no Dimming > > and no Turn off display after time, and guess what > > I see the slider for the Display is all the way to the left! > > > > So sliding it up I get the laptop display appear but rotated > > > > So use the laptop as normal and forget about Netflicks etc or carry on > > and fix it so both displays work in landscape.. what do you think of my > > chances? > > > > It has an Intel 945 graphics controller . > > > Not completely sure what it is exactly that you're trying to do here, > but I can assure you of two things: > > 1: An Intel 945 chipset is decidedly NOT a "reasonable graphics chipset" its better than our only other gadget "The wee" > 2: "man xrandr" is the answer to all your problems Yep still cant get both displays landscape though. > You can use xrandr to define either the broken laptop display or the TV > as the primary display and then set the geometry, resolution and > rotation manually with a quick command. For your purposes you'd probably > be best off disabling GDM or any other greeters and instead launching > into a minimalistic DM from a custom .xinitrc file: as an added bonus, > you can include in the .xinitrc extra statements to disable the > screensaver/screen blanking. For example: > > xset s off # don't activate screensaver > xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features. > xset s noblank # don't blank the video device > > You might actually benefit from checking out the last few days posts on > Phil's "Commandeering X" thread - this seems like an ideal scenario to > demote your EEE PC to a dumb box that simply throws media at your TV so > remotely controlling the X server could actually be a desirable feature > in your scenario, rather than a slightly deranged gimmick. > > Regards > > But the real eye opener was after the last update, the Display started Fully Dimmed? Any less inquisitive user would have scrapped the eee. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq