Yeah.. I tried several different resolutions.. Even generic 640x480x16 color
VGA.. None of them gave a display.. Some would show the screen 4 times,
others were more difficult to read.. At any rate, I found the cure... There
is a line you can add to the options in XF86Config or XF86Config-4. I
pasted a snippet from the XF86Config below.
The intern_disp and extern_disp options allow you to tell the chipset which
display you want to use.. This doesnt give you the flexibility of switching
on the fly like Windoze, but it does work very well.. This also lets you use
the external display with the docking station/port replicator.
FWIW, everything else is working fine.. I did have to set the serial port
speeds with setserial.. It was forcing the modems to connect at 33k.. Those
have been the only two hitches I've had with the entire laptop so far..
Darin -
===
# **
# Graphics device section
# **
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
# Device configured by Xconfigurator:
Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
#VideoRam4096
#Chipset"NM2160"
#Option "intern_disp"
Option "extern_disp"
EndSection
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on Dell CPi-A laptop
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 -
