From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 15:33:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2D116A402 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:33:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA19C13C489 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from [10.0.3.231] ([70.21.176.159]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JCJ00KN19V8QOT2@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:33:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:33:01 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <20070126110617.GI7702@corpex.de> To: Frank Altpeter Message-id: <1169911981.7662.19.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20070126093124.DD6785B14@mail.bitblocks.com> <20070126110617.GI7702@corpex.de> Cc: Bakul Shah , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: external flatscreen with Thinkpad T42 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:33:18 -0000 On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:06 +0100, Frank Altpeter wrote: > Hi there, > > on 2007-01-26 at 10:31:24 CET, Bakul Shah wrote: > > My T42 display first went pink on powerup (but would warm up > > to normal colors), then it would turn off intermittently and > > now it turns off within a second on power up. Has anyone > > tried repairing this? Supposedly a new inverter card or a > > new CCRT is needed.... I would poke around the IBM website looking for "maintenance" manuals. In the days of TP 701C and TP 560 they had sufficient enough detail to take laptops completely apart and put them back together (which, for TP 701C, is saying a lot). They have a habit of mashing quite a few models under the same cover, so you might need to peruse actual manual to figure out if yours is there. This said, I have not done major surgery on the modern ThinkPad laptops. >From my experience on some other machines, I would suggest taking pictures of the hardware on every stage of the disassembly with the digital camera if you have one. > > > > Temporarily I have attached an external Samsung flatscreen > > display to the T42. It has a resolution of 1680x1050 but it > > comes up in 1024x768 mode and everything is horizontally > > stretched. I would like to use it in a higher res mode and > > more importantly to avoid the stretching. Does any one have > > a xorg.conf that I can use as a starting point for an > > external display with higher res? If it matters, I am > > running -current and xorg-6.9.0 Thanks! > As far as i know, the T42 external connector does only 1280x1024 maximum. That varies by model. Mine (2373-Q1U) does 1600x1200 on the built-in LCD and external connector. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko