External Video on TP 380D w/Linux?

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From: Jeremy D. Zawodny (jzawodn_at_wcnet.org)
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 18:53:50 EDT

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.os.linux.misc as well.

I've had a ThinkPad 380D for about half a year now and it's been
happily running various flavors on Linux. I've been using the binary X
Server for the NeoMagic chip set provided by Red Hat software
(XBF-neomagic-glibc-1.1.0-1.i386 to be exact).

I have absolutely no trouble with it. Works great on the built in
screen. The config file that server shipped with worked out of the
box.

But now I want to feed an external video source using the same
resolution (800x600) and color depth (16bps) so that I can project it
on a wall and demo some stuff at meeting. So, as a test, I hooked it
up to my NEC MultiSync XV17. And I couldn't get squat out of it. When
I press the key combination for "activate external video" the NEC's
green light comes on for a second and it then acts as if it is seeing
no signal at all.

After inspecting my XF86Config file, it would appear that I need a
definition for the external video that the NeoMagic server groks.

Any ideas? Anyone done this before successfully?

Thanks,

Jeremy 

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Jeremy D. Zawodny                Web Geek, Perl Hacker, etc.
http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/   jzawodn_at_wcnet.org

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