It must be something specific with how laptops send the signal out to the external monitor TFT and other notebook screens generally have low refresh rates compared to Crt displays,, thats why I always try using generic laptop screen settings when I need to get an old monitor working... (recently I had an old 14 inch SVGA CRT that wouldn't handle anything but "generic 800x600 notebook" got no idea why, but no other settings worked, and since that did, I didn't bother trying to setup x by hand...) I don't know if xfree suports multiple displays,, I had never though to try it. you don't mention what you mean by "messed up" a monitor trying to display a refresh it can't handle has a specific look... as does a monitor trying to display a res it can't handle... try setting your notebook res lower, say 800x600 or lower, and then see if the monitor can handle it.. then try using a lower refresh and try the same thing, keep going down till it works, and then work your way back up till you find a res and refresh that works on your ext monitor,, then you will just have to use drakeconf to change monitors whenever you want to use your external monitor,, corse I could be wrong, their could be a much easier answer... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darin Sent: Tuesday, 20 February 2001 2:26 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on Dell CPi-A laptop Hi, I'm trying to set up Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell Latitude CPi-A laptop.. The installation went flawlessly, and Mandrake boots up fine.. I can even get a really nice display when starting X, but only from the LCD display.. I notice that when starting X, there is a message that mentions Internal LCD display only. When I try to use the function keys to switch to the external display, it does the switch, but the external display is messed up. Is there a way to get either the External display, or both internal and external to work at the same time? The video chip is a NeoMagic 2200. Everything else seems to be working just fine. I can even use the PCMCIA modem to dial out and connect to the net.. Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks Darin -
