Toshiba Satellite L10, Vga Out / Tvout Questions

Hi

I've recently installed suse10 on a tosiba satellite l10 . This machine has the phoenix bios FWIW. The install went pretty well, the only limitations being the acpi doesn't seem to completely work with regard to displaying battery usage ; and I have no idea how to get the TV out stuff working.

The tv out is most important at the moment since i want to plug it into my new tv. The closest i have gotten to a solution that i think will work is to:
-- put the display into PAL mode using YAST
-- reboot the laptop with the VGA out cable connected to the plasma tv
-(cross fingers).

Has anyone been able to get tvout via the svideo out -or- e.g. dual head via the VGA out port working without rebooting the laptop ?

I recall my older toshiba laptop worked fine doing this using the toshutils & toshset utilities -- but those are no good here on account of my phoenix bios.
Any help /advice greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Tim

The tv out is most important at the moment since i want to plug it into my new tv. The closest i have gotten to a solution that i think will work is to:
-- put the display into PAL mode using YAST
-- reboot the laptop with the VGA out cable connected to the plasma tv
-(cross fingers).

Has anyone been able to get tvout via the svideo out -or- e.g. dual head via the VGA out port working without rebooting the laptop ?
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It rather depends on the graphics chip (which one is yours?).
There are some graphic cards that TV-Out only works when the cable was plugged before X started. In case you plug it later, you will need to restart X (just log out and log in again, no need for reboot).

i got the same dillema, (using 855gme chipset) and somebody pointed out to me a page in intels website detailing how to install the intel specific driver (but it did not say if i will get tv out on that), so i won't even try copying files and damaging my installation of suse which gave me headaches for a few days. btw, how do you enable PAL mode in yast? i tried connecting the svideo out to the tv and even rebooted but no output so that can't be a solution to my case.

i got the same dillema, (using 855gme chipset) and somebody pointed out to me a page in intels website detailing how to install the intel specific driver (but it did not say if i will get tv out on that), so i won't even try copying files and damaging my installation of suse which gave me headaches for a few days. btw, how do you enable PAL mode in yast? i tried connecting the svideo out to the tv and even rebooted but no output so that can't be a solution to my case.
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In yast, graphics card & monitor section, I have a display option for 768x576(PAL) which i thought might magically make a difference -- that appears to have been a red herring though.

The graphics chipset I have is the 82852/855GM. Last night i tried using the VGA cable to the TV after booting. The grub logo showed up (on the TV), and all the boot messages etc. But the moment X started i got "no signal" displayed on the TV. If I then went to the first virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1), my console was displayed correctly on the TV though... The weird thing about this is that if i have the VGA cable plugged into a monitor (instead of TV), everything "just works".

I guess its back to the drawing board .

hmmm, i tried to replicate what you have done since we both have the same chipset. i set both the main lappy lcd and the one for dual-head display to 768 pal. i got nothing on tv. and when i hit cntrl-alt-f1, i went back to the login screen. weird. am i doing something wrong or what?