Re: [opensuse] Using a USB-to-VGA (displaylink) adapter with 11.4


On Fri, 27 May 2011, medwinz wrote:

On Friday, May 27, 2011 11:50:37 AM Bogdan Cristea wrote:
On Thursday, May 26, 2011 08:47:30 PM R. Tyler Croy wrote:
Howdy folks, I'm having trouble getting this adapter
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038P1TP4> set up properly.

THe kernel (2.6.38.6-29-desktop, tumbleweedin' here) properly recognizes
the device but I cannot quite figure out how to properly configure X.org
to use it. I'm a heavy user of xrandr since I regularly use an external
monitor with my laptop, and it doesn't show up in the `xrandr -q` output
either.

More broadly, could someone recommend an USB to VGA adapter known to work
in openSUSE 11.4 ? I am looking for a long time for such a solution since
my PC doesn't have dual output video card.

thanks

Last time I use it with 11.3, this kind of device cannot work in dual-monitor
situation. Actually I use it to connect an all-in-one PC (that doesn't have
VGA output) to a VGA projector.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-11/msg00801.html

Following up on this, I tinkered a bit with this over the weekend and I
couldn't get anything to function as I had hoped.

I started down the path of trying to at least get a virtual terminal up on the
new framebuffer (/dev/fb1) using parts of this document: <http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html>


Interestingly enough, I couldn't get mplayer to use /dev/fb1 as a video output
device (mplayer -vo fbdev:/dev/fb1) either, mplayer would play the audio just
fine, but nothing would be output. Rather strange.


I'll keep digging and hope somebody comes up with a solution.


- R. Tyler Croy
--------------------------------------
Code: http://github.com/rtyler
Chatter: http://identi.ca/agentdero
http://twitter.com/agentdero

Attachment: pgpteXYr0634E.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Relevant Pages