freeze mint 19 and 19.1 on connecting video projector cable on VGA

[khayyam]

Hi everyone,

when I connected the video projector cable on VGA port, my laptop (screen, keyboard, and mouse) froze and I had no display on the projector.

Linux Mint 19.1 XFCE
GPU Intel

[kato181]

Have you checked your bios to see if the vga port has been disabled? If it has then enable it re-boot then try again.
You will probably need to post more info about the laptop make, model etc and the video projector also so others can assist you.

[mrmajik45]

If I remember correctly, type

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inxi -Fxz

into the terminal and post the results here.

[khayyam]

If I remember correctly, type

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inxi -Fxz

into the terminal and post the results here.

System:
Host: sony-pc Kernel: 4.15.0-43-generic i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VGN-SR165E v: C600GSPW serial: <filter>
Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends
v: R0280Y1 date: 06/05/2008
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8400 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Penryn rev: 6 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 9037
Speed: 1356 MHz min/max: 800/2267 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1023 2: 932
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~50Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express x86/MMX/SSE2
v: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Sony driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-43-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 9000
bus ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 72.37 GiB (60.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SP610 size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 29.40 GiB used: 19.81 GiB (67.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 183 Uptime: 29m Memory: 2.83 GiB used: 744.9 MiB (25.7%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19
inxi: 3.0.27

[khayyam]

Have you checked your bios to see if the vga port has been disabled? If it has then enable it re-boot then try again.
You will probably need to post more info about the laptop make, model etc and the video projector also so others can assist you.

System:
Host: sony-pc Kernel: 4.15.0-43-generic i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VGN-SR165E v: C600GSPW serial: <filter>
Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends
v: R0280Y1 date: 06/05/2008
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8400 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Penryn rev: 6 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 9037
Speed: 1356 MHz min/max: 800/2267 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1023 2: 932
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~50Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express x86/MMX/SSE2
v: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Sony driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-43-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 9000
bus ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 72.37 GiB (60.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SP610 size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 29.40 GiB used: 19.81 GiB (67.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 183 Uptime: 29m Memory: 2.83 GiB used: 744.9 MiB (25.7%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19
inxi: 3.0.27