[plug] External monitor on sony laptop

[W.Kenworthy]

I too am happy with it, but have to use it at the moment - too flat out
to do much.

I still have to sort out those items as well - their not critical, but I
do have to something about the tiny eject button on the front of the dvd
before it drives me mad :).  I did get the display working at both
resolutions at once, but it used two screens.  This meant two
independent desktops which is not what I want (I want the same image on
both, but the external size/aspect to take precedence when needed - at
the moment a rather lousy 1024x768 is all that it will do and keep the
proportions right with an ext monitor/projector).  Currently, xorg comes
back with the modes I need to use set to zero, so I am wondering if I
have a driver/modular xorg bug.  i810switch and 915resolution were two
useful utilities.

I recompiled the system (gentoo) for the P-m arch in the background over
the weekend and I am impressed with the hardware over the dell:
faster/smoother and just seems better under load! - then again the dell
was broke at the end of its life :(

It will be 3 weeks until the pressure is off and I will have time to
fiddle - in the meantime I already like it more than the more
expensive/powerful/larger dell it replaced!

BillK

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 12:32 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > i810 switch was it, there is no bios option.
> > 
> > Now I am trying to get two screens via "MonitorLayout", but its only
> > recognising one screen - more googling :(
> > 
> > The laptop is 1360x768 and the ext LCD is 1280x1024, and I either have
> > no laptop display and a nice external, or a nice laptop and real crappy
> > ext display.  I need a happy medium of both being usable! (and live at
> > the same time without restarting X or rebooting)  And it was working so
> > well on the dell with a radeon ...
> > 
> 
> Did you find a solution to this?
> I've just gone and sprung for the same machine after test driving one for a couple of weeks..
> Still have not been able to map the Eject key or Volume keys yet.. Everything else seems pretty good 
> ootb.
> 
> Would appreciate any pointers or gotchas you may have found.
> Have not tried to get the internal card reader or V90 modem working yet, though apparently there are 
> patches/drivers available for both.
> 
> Regards,
> Brad