From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 4 16:11:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13204 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:11:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13198 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24500; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:12:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199808042212.XAA24500@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: Brian Somers , Randy Philipp , Doug White , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neomagic chipset - is it a hardware problem ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:51:01 +0930." <19980804165101.Y25942@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 23:12:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [.....] > > Has anyone else seen this problem ? I'm pretty much convinced that > > it's a hardware problem now, so I'll probably return the machine > > (second time) nearer the end of the week. > > I don't know too much about laptop displays, but if that were to > happen on a glass monitor, I'd guess you're driving it out of spec. I > know you can fry monitors; maybe you can fry laptop displays. In your > position I'd seriously consider reviewing the display parameters. The display (frequency) parameters seem to be pretty much redundant for LCDs. I can make up any clock line, and pair it up with a modeline that says "800x600" anything 800 anything 600 anything and it'll behave exactly the same. This makes sense as there's no ``beam'' to give orders to on an LCD..... you just have to switch modes and colour the pixels - the rest is beyond software control. > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message